Showing posts with label Greenfinch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greenfinch. Show all posts
Sunday, 5 January 2025

Year List Update

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 Yesterday, I added a few more birds to the Year List. The first four were all at Rufford CP, yesterday, and included my first site record o...
Saturday, 15 June 2019

Garden Ringing - 15th June 2019

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I haven't done any ringing in my garden since March, so this morning I decided to get the net out for a few hours (05:45 - 09.00). My ma...
Sunday, 6 January 2019

Linacre - First visit of 2019

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On Wednesday, Luke and I had our first visit of the year to Linacre. We walked around the middle and top reservoirs recording the following ...
Thursday, 13 December 2018

Even Longer Distance Greenfinch

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I recently wrote a post about a Blue Tit that had travelled 19km. Well, yesterday I got an email from the Data Manager of Sorby Breck Ringi...
Sunday, 21 October 2018

Linacre Ringing - 20th October 2018

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This month's ringing session at Linacre started at 6:45am, just before it got light, so that we could set the nets up and ready to try a...
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 ...
Sunday, 3 April 2016

Garden Finches and a juvenile Woodpigeon

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I watch and record the birds in my garden every week for the BTO's Garden Birdwatch Scheme . I don't blog about the results often, b...
Sunday, 17 January 2016

Snowy Garden adds two new species

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Last night brought a few hours of snow to the garden, the first proper snow of the winter so far, and meant that I woke up to this lovely, i...
Tuesday, 16 June 2015

Garden Youngsters

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The nice thing about watching the garden birds at this time of the year, is the fact that young birds start to fledge from nearby nests and ...
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...
Sunday, 22 February 2015

Garden visitors

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Whilst sitting having breakfast, and watching the birds for the BTO's Garden Birdwatch Scheme this morning,  I was lucky enough to spot...
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...
Saturday, 24 January 2015

Big Garden Birdwatch

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Every week I take part in the BTO's Garden Birdwatch Scheme , and record all the wildlife that uses our garden. This weekend, in additio...
Thursday, 1 January 2015

Linacre Ringing and Birding - Overview of 2014

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At the end of the year I like to do a quick review of the birding  and ringing that has taken place at Linacre in the previous 12 months. ...
Sunday, 28 December 2014

Garden birds in the snow.

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We've had a bit of snow here over the last few days, so I've been watching the garden intently to see if we got any different visito...
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...
Saturday, 18 October 2014

Garden Mega!!

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I don't blog that much about the birds in my garden, but today's an exception because I had a "mega" bird in - a Great-spo...
Sunday, 11 May 2014

Year List update and a new bird for Linacre

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In the 9 years that I've been watching and recording the birdlife at Linacre there is one species of bird that, although very common in ...
Sunday, 30 March 2014

Chiffchaff ringing

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Following on from last week's blog about my first Chiffchaff sightings of the year, today I was out ringing with The Group , and I mana...
Tuesday, 4 March 2014

Ringing Demo and a new species

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On Sunday I spent 5 hours carrying out a ringing demo with the Group at Blackburn Meadows in Sheffield. As well as being a very enjoyable ...