Showing posts with label Avenue Washlands. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Avenue Washlands. Show all posts
Friday, 4 September 2026

Red-backed Shrike - Derbyshire Tick!

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Yesterday, whilst doing the weekly shop (!), I got a message from Luke that there was a Birdguides record of a juvenile/1st winter Red-backe...
Saturday, 28 February 2026

Year List Update

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 In the last two weeks, I've added a couple of new species to this year's Year List. The first new species, Stock Dove (108) was ad...
Sunday, 18 March 2018

Ringing Recoveries

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I don't tend to get much news of the birds that I ring, so it was very nice, earlier this week, to get 2 emails from our Group's da...
Saturday, 10 February 2018

Blue Tit Longevity Records... nearly.

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Last week I received details of 2 interesting  Blue Tits that we ( Sorby Breck Ringing Group ) had ringed at the Derbyshire Wildlife's T...
Sunday, 21 January 2018

Year List Update - 21st January 2018

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It's been a while since I updated the Year List, and it's moved on quite a bit, so here goes. Numbers 47 to 50 were seen at Derbyshi...
Sunday, 18 June 2017

Year List Update - 4 new species

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Over the last couple of weeks the "year listing" has slowed down some what, but despite this, I've managed to add 4 new specie...
Sunday, 2 April 2017

Avenue Ringing - 2nd April 2017

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After a few weeks without a ringing session it was really nice to get out and about again today. I spent 3 and a half hours out with 4 other...
Sunday, 8 January 2017

New Year Ringing, Waxwings and Year Ticks

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I know its not quite the new year now, but today was the first opportunity I had to get out ringing in 2017, hence the title of today's ...
Saturday, 2 July 2016

Avenue Ringing - 2nd July 2016

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Every two years there is a 24 hour wildlife event at the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust's Avenue Washlands reserve in Chesterfield. This morn...
Monday, 8 February 2016

Avenue Ringing - 7th February 2016

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After a few weekends of wet and windy weather, I managed to get out with 4 other members of Sorby Breck Ringing Group for a ringing session...
Sunday, 12 April 2015

Blackcap and Chiffchaff

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Today's ringing session saw 5 members of Sorby Breck Ringing Group down at the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust's Avenue Washlands reserv...
Monday, 9 March 2015

Avenue Ringing

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Yesterday's ringing session with 4 members of the Sorby Breck Ringing Group , at The Avenue Washlands began slowly, but, by the end of ...
Saturday, 28 February 2015

New goose at Linacre.

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I've been recording the birdlife at Linacre Reservoirs regularly since 2006, and in that time I've only seen Canada and Greylag Gee...
Monday, 9 February 2015

Ringing tick

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This weekend's ringing session took place at the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust's Avenue Washlands . There were just 3 of us from The Gro...
Sunday, 4 January 2015

Avenue Ringing - 4th January 2015

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After a blank month in December, when I didn't manage to get out ringing at all, I was very pleased to get out this morning. There was a...
Sunday, 30 November 2014

Avenue Ringing - Finches galore!

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The weather for the last few weekends has been grey, overcast and wet, so when we saw a half decent forecast for this morning we ( Sorby Bre...
Thursday, 4 September 2014

Avenue Ringing x 2

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As the title of today's post suggests, I've had two ringing sessions at The Avenue this week. The first, on Sunday, was an early mo...
Thursday, 21 August 2014

Avenue Swallow Roost 2014

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Last night I was out with the Sorby Breck Ringing Group to carry out the annual Swallow roost at the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust's Avenu...
Monday, 30 June 2014

Kingfisher saves the day

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I was out ringing yesterday morning with Sorby Breck RG  at Derbyshire Wildlife Trust's   Avenue Washlands in Chesterfield. We arrived...
Monday, 17 February 2014

Avenue Ringing - 16th February 2014

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Yesterday morning the weather was dry and still, so I managed to get out ringing with the Sorby Breck Group. We went back down to the Derby...