Showing posts with label Reed Warbler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reed Warbler. Show all posts
Sunday, 26 April 2026

Year List Update and a Lifer!

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Today has been a pretty great day, in terms of Year List species, and a very nice, completely unexpected "lifer". The day started ...
Monday, 21 April 2025

Year List Update - 21st April 2025

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 This last week, I've been out and about a few times, and have managed to add 6 more species to this year's Year List. The first bir...
Sunday, 6 October 2024

Gibraltar Point Ringing - 28th September 2024

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 A couple of weekends ago, I had a morning's bird ringing at the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust's Gibraltar Point NNR in Lincolnshire....
Saturday, 5 May 2018

RSPB Frampton Marsh - 16 Year Ticks!!

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Today, Jayne, Luke and I went across to RSPB Frampton Marsh in Lincolnshire. We had a superb day in sunshine and 23 degree heat, and manage...
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...
Wednesday, 2 August 2017

RSPB Marazion Marsh

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Jayne and I spent a couple of hours at Marazion Beach and RSPB Marazion Marsh near Penzance on Sunday morning. We started off by walking...
Monday, 29 May 2017

RSPB Minsmere - 27th May 2017

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I'm down in Suffolk for a week, so, of course, the first stop has to be Bittern Hide at RSPB Minsmere . Jayne and I had a couple of hou...
Wednesday, 27 July 2016

Poolsbrook Marsh - 24th July 2016

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Every summer I go out ringing with Sorby Breck Ringing Group at Poolsbrook Marsh. We were out there again at the weekend, and managed to ri...
Sunday, 15 May 2016

Year List Update

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I've managed to add a few new species to this year's Year List over the last few weeks, so I thought I'd better write a short p...
Sunday, 2 August 2015

Year List tops 150

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After a week away in Norfolk I thought it was about time I updated the Year List, especially as I've managed to reach the 150 mark again...
Monday, 6 July 2015

Warblers, Warblers, Warblers!!!

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Last weekend's ringing session at Linacre was quite quiet, with just 7 birds ringed, so yesterday, with the weather conditions perfect, ...
Wednesday, 27 May 2015

Year List Update and a new Dragonfly

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This week is half term, which means I've had a bit of time to get out and about to do some birdwatching and increase my "year list...
Monday, 28 July 2014

Carr Vale Ringing - 2 new species

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On Saturday I was out ringing with my trainer and Brian from The Sorby Breck Ringing Group , at the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust's Carr Val...
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 ...
Monday, 9 September 2013

Warblers!

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Yesterday I managed to get out ringing with the group , to Carr Vale , the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust's reserve near Bolsover. We arrived...
Wednesday, 28 August 2013

400+

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That's the estimated total of Swallows that we've managed to ring in the reedbed roosts at The Avenue so far this summer. We wer...
Saturday, 1 June 2013

RSPB Lakenheath- 28th May 2013

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During our recent trip to Suffolk Jayne and I popped across to the RSPB's Lakenheath Reserve in the search of a male Red-footed Falcon ...
Saturday, 18 August 2012

Swallow roost and Year Tick

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Following on from last week's successful ringing session at the swallow roost at The Avenue Washlands in Chesterfield, we returned agai...
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Thursday, 9 August 2012

Swallow roost success

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On Tuesday night I went out with the Sorby Breck Ringing Group  for the first of the year's Swallow roost ringing sessions at The Avenu...
Tuesday, 7 August 2012

Return to the reeds- ringing tick.

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Way back in March I blogged about a ringing trip to Poolsbrook Marsh near Chesterfield ( see here ).  Unfortunately, until Sunday we've ...