Showing posts with label Mistle Thrush. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mistle Thrush. Show all posts
Sunday, 15 March 2026

Linacre Update - 15th March 2026

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The weather yesterday was lovely, with bright, sunny skies and little wind, so I went down to Linacre for a couple of hours, walking around ...
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, 7 April 2019

Linacre Bird News - 7th April 2019

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Luke and I were at Linacre this morning for a walk around all 3 reservoirs. We recorded the following waterbirds: Mallard (37), Tufted Duck ...
Sunday, 17 February 2019

Linacre WeBS - February 2019

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This month's WeBS count took place yesterday morning, and the following birds were counted; Mallard 64, Mandarin Duck 28, Tufted Duck ...
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...
Monday, 21 January 2019

Yorkshire Sculpture Park - 20th January 2019

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Jayne and I had a few hours at Yorkshire Sculpture Park on Sunday. Whilst there we walked around the Lower Lake, where we were lucky enough ...
Saturday, 10 November 2018

Linacre WeBS - 10th November 2018

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During last month's WeBS walk, Luke and I found 2 "female type" Teal . This morning we were down at Linacre again, to carry ou...
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...
Tuesday, 20 February 2018

Linacre WeBS and Nestboxes - 20th February 2018

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I was down at Linacre this morning, with 2 jobs to do. The first job was to replace a few of the nestboxes that had been damaged by Grey Squ...
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...
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...
Sunday, 15 October 2017

Linacre Ringing - 15th October 2017

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It wasn't a great morning weather wise today, but we ( Sorby Breck Ringing Group ) managed to get out to Linacre for a few hours ringing...
Sunday, 11 June 2017

Linacre Ringing - 4 breeding records

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This morning's ringing session at Linacre was a quiet one, with just 10 birds caught, but within that small number, we were very lucky t...
Monday, 1 May 2017

Linacre Nestboxes - 1st May 2017

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Luke and I spent 2 and a half hours walking around Linacre this morning checking on the 80+ tit boxes. 39 were occupied, 21 of which either ...
Tuesday, 11 April 2017

Linacre Nestboxes - a first visit

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Over the weekend, and yesterday, I paid my first visit of 2017 to monitor the nestboxes at Linacre. I had a feeling they'd be further on...
Saturday, 25 March 2017

Linacre - 25th March 2017

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Luke and I had 2 hours at Linacre this morning. We arrived at 7am and it was bright and sunny, but only minus 1 degrees. When we left at 9am...
Saturday, 18 March 2017

Linacre Year Tick

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The weather forecast for this morning wasn't great, but Luke and I decided to have a few hours around Linacre anyway. The forecast was r...
Saturday, 18 February 2017

Linacre WeBS - 18th February 2017

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Luke and I were down at Linacre this morning to carry out this month's WeBS count. It was a grey, overcast morning, but it was also qui...
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...
Saturday, 21 January 2017

Linacre Sightings and Chesterfield Waxwings

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It was a cold (2 degrees), grey and miserable morning when I arrived at Linacre this morning with Luke. We had an hour and a half walking ar...