Blue Tit recovery

This year, was a bumper year in the nest boxes at Linacre, with 232 birds ringed. Yesterday, I received an email from David from the ringing group, with details of one of "our" birds that had been found by a member of the public.

The bird in question  was a Blue Tit that had been ringed in a box on May 25th 2014 (see here). Unfortunately, it had only survived 27 days and had been found just 2km away in Old Brampton, after flying into a window.

Although its sad to hear of fatalities, it is interesting to know that at least some of the juvenile birds from Linacre disperse away from the site when they fledge. Hopefully, we'll get some more recoveries later in the year- this time of live birds!