Yesterday

Down at the St Johns feeder site yesterday with Kev a nice calm morning with 69 new birds ringed.

Siskins being bird of the day with 21 being ringed

Dunnock 3
Robin 2
Blackbird 4 (+2)
Goldcrest 1
Coal Tit 2 (+6)
Blue Tit 10 (+11)
Great Tit 11 (+2)
House Sparrow 3
Chaffinch 10 (+2)
Goldfinch 2
Siskin 21 (+1)

We then left around 1pm and headed for Peel to see the immature Iceland Gull that had just turned up.

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Reedbed

A few visits back to the small reedbed site the last few days have been quite nice

30 birds caught

Dunnock 1

Robin  1

Blue Tit 13 with 4 retraps from 2011

Gt Tits 4  retraps 3 from 2011

Reed Bunting 4

 Also 11new Linnets Ringed at the Point of Ayre  with 1 retrap from November 2011

and the Blackcap in my garden has been ringed and is on the feeders as i type.

Another Black Redstart

Photos Cole Liggins

Nice morning out and about decided to go and see if the Black Redstart was still showing at Ramsey Harbour

Brian and his Son Cole turned up so we started to look for the Redstart. It was by the Mezeron lorry  trailers to start with, so i left Brian to take a load of shots after an hour i decided to put my new Moudry spring trap down with a load of meal worms in a small tub. 10 mins later another Black Redstart ringed. 

Went home for a cup of tea and Brian noticed a Blackcap on my feeders nice end to the day

Busy few days

Out and about with Kev the last few days catching Mallards, Mute Swans, Moorhens, and Herring Gull.

Great few days looking at a few new sites and starting to ring again at the reedbed site.

2 Reed Bunting ringed there today with a few Blue Tits.

Moorhen

Reed Bunting

Juv Mute Swans being ringed 

Waders get underway for 2012

Met up with Kev this evening for our first dazzle of the year. Very quite only 4 birds seen and few more heard

1 Sanderling Ringed.

its a start and another species for the year list another species is Moorhen with 3 Ringed this week.

Twite Movement

A couple of weeks ago i got an email from Ken Hindmarch from the 01229 group of ringers about one of our Isle of Man Twite.

The bird with colour rings WHITE over BLUE ORANGE on its left leg was seen on the 27 October 2011 and 3 times in November 2011 at Askam- in-Furness near the Pier.

This bird was ringed at The Point of Ayre site along with another 50 in the winter of 2010/2011 and is the first record of one of our colour ringed Twite being seen off island..... or it was untill Kev got a Control back from the BTO last night

Twite L807928 was colour ringed on the 19 March 2011 at the Point Of Ayre and controlled at Machrihanish Bird Obs on the 02 September 2011

Duration of 167 Days  Distance 145KM

Another cracking day

Met Kev at 9AM at Mr and Mrs Colvin's garden near Close Sartfield.  

3 Hours later we had caught 104 birds of which
60 were new birds

Mainly Blue Tits and Gt Tits with Coal Tits Chaffinch Blackbirds Goldfinch Robins

a Female Sparrowhawk came close to being ringed but just missed.

After packing up we had an hour before we had to get off so we decided to visit the site where 

a  Chiffchaff had been showing for the last 4 days and coursing some ID debate

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a great couple of days wind is back tomorrow