A small team mostly focussed on Hawfinch & other passerines in the central New Forest & coastal fringes; we also dabble a bit in waders & terns.
Joined December 2021
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Yesterday we did our first BTO CES (constant effort survey) session of the season at Keyhaven catching 37 birds of 12 species.
Highlight for me was catching a regular Whitethroat, first ringed in 2018 and recorded on site almost every year since.
Been a slow start to the ringing year so far nice to get 23 birds in the garden this morning, including a couple of Nuthatch. #BirdRinging
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Tonight marked a full 12 months of dazzling at our East Renfrewshire farmland site. The session ended with 3 Woodcock, 3 Skylark and a retrap Jack.
Our 12 month wader total finished on 113 birds ringed. Main ones being Woodcock (56), Jacks (31 + 14 RT) and 21 Common Snipe – at Thornliebank, Scotland
Nice little recovery report just in: A Lesser Redpoll ringed at Keyhaven as a 3M on 4th November 2020 caught again at Llangorse Lake, Powys (179km away) on 19th November 2022. @LymKeyRanger
2 great recovery records today: 2nd Siskin colour ringed May turned up same garden in Peebles as 1st one. Common Tern chick CRed last yr seen in SENEGAL April 2022!
Nice to catch Stonechat & Treecreeper among the more usual suspects yesterday @LymKeyRanger
Reed Warbler ringed Keyhaven 11/8/21 as a 3 (1st yr), caught as breeding female 26/7/22 Llangorse Lake, Powys (179km) @LymKeyRanger
Last CES of 2022 rather quiet (birds) and grey (weather) but team's spirits raised by a smart Lesser Whitethroat and a 3M Sparrowhawk @LymKeyRanger Photo credit: @phantomofforest
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You'll have to take my word for it, but this was one of 6 Hawfinches at Netley Heath today. Also in attendance: 2 Siskins and several Marsh Tits. @SurreyBirdNews
Great to see more juv Sedge & Reed Warblers in the nets, along with Linnet. Yet to persuade large flocks of Goldfinch feeding on thistle nearby to join them @LymKeyRanger
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This is the very last thing our threatened Hawfinch population needs. This disease sent the Greenfinch into a rapid decline which thankfully now looks to have turned a corner 🔽🔽
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04.30 start for CES yesterday: 26 birds, 12 spp. Birding along the seawall till lunchtime. Break. 23:30 finish after Swallow roost (15 juv, 1 adult male), watching 2 pr Nightjar flying over nets, & a Lappet laying eggs in one #BirdRinging @LymKeyRanger
Bit quiet on the ringing front at the mo' but getting some nice juv Greenfinch in the garden #BirdRinging
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Been colour ringing small no.s Common, Little and Sandwich Terns over the last few weeks. Here's a well grown Sarnie from this afternoon. @lymkeyranger #Birdringing
A trio of freshly ringed Hawfinches being released during the Young Person's New Forest Wildlife Camp in spring 2022 @HawfinchesUK #BirdRinging
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HOTP, adult female Siskin, the 1st of those colour ringed under our new RAS to be recaptured elsewhere has turned up in Peebles on the Scottish Borders. Thanks to the Borders Ringing Group for the record. #Birdringing