Showing posts with label Bullfinch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bullfinch. Show all posts
Monday, 20 July 2026

Seven Hours at Linacre!

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 Yesterday (19th), I had a couple of visits to Linacre. The first, from 06.00 - 09.30, was a ringing session, with 3 other members of Sorby ...
Saturday, 31 January 2026

Year List Update

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 As January comes to an end, I felt it was time to update the Year List. There have been 5 new species since my last post. The first additio...
Monday, 27 October 2025

Spurn Point - 25th October 2025

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 On Saturday, Jayne and I went over to Spurn Point NNR to visit our nephew, who is volunteering there. Whilst there, we had an eight and a h...
Wednesday, 15 January 2025

Pennington Flash - 12th January 2025

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 Jayne had an appointment in Stockport on Sunday, so, after dropping her off, I drove across to Pennington Flash. The main lake was 95% froz...
Saturday, 17 February 2024

Linacre Visit and Ringing - February 2024

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 On 4th February, I had a walk around all three reservoirs at Linacre. It was 9 degrees, grey and overcast. Birds seen/heard were: Song Thru...
Tuesday, 2 January 2024

Hassop Waxwings

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 After my walk around Linacre yesterday, Jayne and I drove cross to Hassop Station near Bakewell to see the 250+ Waxwings  (42) that had bee...
Sunday, 22 October 2023

Dutch-ringed Redwing at Linacre

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 Every year, we try to catch some of the Redwings , that spend the winter months in Britain. This morning, we ( Sorby Breck Ringing Group ),...
Monday, 25 November 2019

Linacre Ringing - 24th November 2019

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Yesterday I was down at Linacre for a 4 hour ringing session with 3 other members of Sorby Breck Ringing Group . We had a steady morning, wi...
Sunday, 7 April 2019

Lesser Whitethroat "blythi" - 3rd February 2019

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Back in February (3rd), I had my first garden ringing session on 2019. I had the 20ft net up by the feeding station and caught just 8 birds ...
Monday, 28 January 2019

Linacre Ringing - 26th January 2018

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Saturday saw 6 members of Sorby Breck Ringing Group back down at Linacre for the second ringing session of the year. We had a relatively qu...
Saturday, 22 September 2018

Linacre Ringing - 22nd September 2018

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This morning I was down at Linacre with 4 other members of Sorby Breck Ringing Group . We had 4 hours on site and caught 38 birds (new/retra...
Thursday, 19 July 2018

Linacre Ringing - 7th July 2018

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Back at the start of the month I was down at Linacre with Sorby Breck Ringing Group for the first mist netting session since April. We had ...
Sunday, 18 February 2018

Kestrel - new species at Linacre

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I was down at Linacre this morning for the second ringing session of the year. We started off well with a great catch of 14 Long-tailed Tits...
Tuesday, 28 November 2017

Linacre Ringing - 25th November 2017

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Last Saturday saw 5 members of the Sorby Breck Ringing Group down at Linacre for a ringing session. The weather was a bit blustery, with a ...
Monday, 7 August 2017

French-ringed Reed Warbler

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Yesterday I was out for my first ringing session in a while at Poolsbrook Marsh, with 5 other members of Sorby Breck Ringing Group . We ar...
Sunday, 30 April 2017

Linacre Ringing and a 2 new Species

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I was out ringing with 3 members of the Sorby Breck Ringing Group at Linacre yesterday. We had 3 and a half hours on site, but only caught ...
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...
Saturday, 11 March 2017

Siskins and a Redpoll

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I haven't been out ringing for a couple of weeks, so this morning's session at our private site in Wingerworth, Chesterfield was a n...
Monday, 6 February 2017

How old??

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How long do birds live? is a question we are often asked by members of the public at ringing demonstrations. I was asked this exact question...
Monday, 30 January 2017

Colour-ringed Waxwing

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I was driving past Sheepbridge Business Centre in Chesterfield yesterday, when I spotted the familiar silhouette of a Waxwing perched up in...