Linacre Blogger

Linacre Blogger

Welcome to my blog all about my birdwatching, wild bird ringing activities and moth recording at Linacre Reservoirs, Derbyshire; in Great Britain and abroad.

Friday, 31 May 2013

Minsmere Magic!

Just been down to Suffolk for a week's family holiday. I managed to get quite a lot of birding done, including 3 visits to RSPB Minsmer...

Monday, 20 May 2013

Linacre nest update- 19th May 2013

I think I can count on one hand the number of times I visit Linacre in a T-shirt. Sunday 19th was just one of those days, as the temperature...

Mist nets out again

I haven't been able to get out mist netting since 20th April, due to a mixture of awful weather and other commitments, so I was really p...

Thursday, 16 May 2013

2nd Mandarin and first pulli of the year

After work tonight I went up to Linacre with David and Ray, my ringing trainer, to ring the second female Mandarin Duck . Afterwards we dr...

Sunday, 12 May 2013

Nestboxes and WeBS

Three hours at Linacre this morning resulted in a completed WeBS count and the first full check of the nest boxes for two weeks. A total of...

Saturday, 11 May 2013

Mandarin success

After last week's success with the Little Owl we went back down to Linacre this morning to see if we could catch and ring the Mandarin D...

Monday, 6 May 2013

First eggs!!

Popped down to Linacre for an hour this afternoon to show Jayne the Pied Flycatcher that I saw yesterday. It wasn't around today - arrg...

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