Showing posts with label Song Thrush. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Song Thrush. Show all posts
Friday, 13 October 2023

Linacre Ringing - 8th October 2024

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Last weekend, we had a ringing session down at Linacre. We arrived at 6.45am, and, by 11am, we had ringed 47 new birds of 8 species. Birds r...
Saturday, 8 October 2022

Linacre Ringing - 2nd October 2022

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 Last Saturday I was down at Linacre with two other members of Sorby Breck Ringing Group for our first ringing session there, since March!!...
Sunday, 13 February 2022

Linacre Birds - 12th February 2022

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 I managed to get down to Linacre for the first February visit. The weather was cool (5 degrees) and pretty windy, but there were decent num...
Sunday, 13 December 2020

Linacre WeBS - 12th December 2020

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 I was down at Linacre yesterday morning to carry out this month's WeBS walk. It was one of the best walks I've done all year, with...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
Sunday, 26 August 2018

Linacre Ringing - 25th August 2018

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Saturday was dry, so I was down at Linacre with 4 other members of Sorby Breck Ringing Group for our first mist netting session since the st...
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...
Saturday, 3 February 2018

Linacre - 3rd February 2018

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Luke and I had a couple of hours out at Holmebrook Valley CP and Linacre this morning. Despite persistent drizzle, and a little bit of sleet...
Saturday, 12 August 2017

Ringing Success

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After a couple of months break, we ( Sorby Breck Ringing Group ) were back down at Linacre this morning for a ringing session. As the title ...
Monday, 26 June 2017

Spotted Flycatcher

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I was up in Ripley, North Yorkshire at the weekend enjoying my son's wedding(!). In a quiet moment, I had a walk around the village wher...
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, 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...
Thursday, 9 March 2017

Great Grey Shrike

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I spent a couple of hours at Greave's Piece, near Owler Bar on Sunday morning looking for a Great Grey Shrike . Unfortunately, I didn...
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, 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...
Saturday, 4 February 2017

Linacre - 4th February 2017

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Luke and I made our first visit to Linacre for February  this morning. It was cold (0 degrees on arrival), dry, bright and sunny, and we wal...
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...
Saturday, 14 January 2017

Linacre WeBS - January 2016

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We had the first snow of the winter here in Derbyshire yesterday, so I was looking forward to see a white Linacre this morning when I popped...