Showing posts with label Lesser Redpoll. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lesser Redpoll. Show all posts
Sunday, 15 March 2026

Year List Update - 15th March 2026

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This week, I've managed to add a few new species to this year's "Year List", bringing the total so far to 116 birds. The f...
Sunday, 9 March 2025

Linacre - Ringing, Migrants and Year Ticks

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 Last weekend (1st March) I was down at Linacre for a ringing session, and yesterday (8th March),  I was back again for a walk around the re...
Saturday, 16 March 2024

Linacre - 16th March 2024

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 This morning I had a quick walk around Linacre, to see if I could find my first spring migrants. I was in luck, with my first singing Chiff...
Saturday, 17 October 2020

Linacre Ringing - 11th October 2020

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 Last Sunday, 4 members of Sorby Breck Ringing Group were down at Linacre for a ringing session. It was quite quiet, with just 19 birds of...
Sunday, 14 April 2019

Linacre Nestboxes and Summer Migrants - 14th April 2019

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Luke and I were down at Linacre this morning to have the first check of the nestboxes for the BTO's Nest Record Scheme . We went around ...
Saturday, 2 February 2019

Year List Update - 2nd February 2019

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It's been a while since I updated the 2019 Year List, and, as you can see, there are a few new additions. The Song Thrush was heard ...
Thursday, 26 April 2018

Linacre Nestboxes 2018 - The First Visit

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The Spring so far has been colder than normal and wet. As a result I wasn't expecting too much when I went to Linacre tonight for my fir...
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Saturday, 27 January 2018

Linacre WeBs - January 2018

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Luke and I were down at Linacre this morning to carry out the first BTO WeBS walk of 2018. We walked around all 3 reservoirs and recorded t...
Saturday, 1 April 2017

Summer Migrants at Linacre

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Luke and I had 2 hours at Linacre this morning and walked around all 3 reservoirs. We recorded good numbers of the usual waterbirds, along w...
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...
Saturday, 4 March 2017

Hooded Crow - new Derbyshire Tick

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Hot on the heels of this morning's Iceland Gull , I was out again this afternoon to try and catch up with a Hooded Crow that had been r...
Sunday, 11 December 2016

Linacre Ringing - 10th December 2016

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I was down at Linacre again yesterday morning with Sorby Breck Ringing Group and Luke, for what will most likely be our last ringing sessio...
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...
Monday, 21 March 2016

Finches and Redpolls

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More often than not, when we're ringing in a garden setting, the commonest birds we catch are tits. Yesterday's session at our regu...
Sunday, 13 March 2016

Something from the Weekend

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After yesterday morning's Linacre walk, Jayne and I went for another walk in the afternoon, this time to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park . ...
Wednesday, 17 February 2016

A very busy morning!

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A break in the wet and windy weather meant that I was able to get out ringing on Sunday with 3 other members of the Sorby Breck Ringing Grou...
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...
Saturday, 23 January 2016

Linacre Ringing - 1st visit of 2016

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After an enforced break of 6 weeks, due to wet and windy weekends, I managed to get out ringing this morning with my trainer and 1 other mem...
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...
Saturday, 2 January 2016

Linacre Shags still there.

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After starting the year in Northumberland, I was able to get down to Linacre this morning for my first visit of 2016. Whilst there I added 1...