More Pictures from Cley

Thanks again to David and Pat for sending me more great shots of the Twite that was ringed in August at Whiteholme reservoir .

A flock of 27 were seen yesterday at Cley.

Saturday

Yesterday spent a Full Day out with Phil and Sara at there Allerthorpe site near York. A great day with over 140 birds caught. Every third bird seemed to be a Tree Sparrow with , Blue Tits, Gt Tits, LT Tits, Willow Tits and a Marsh Tit. Also ringed Greenfinch, Bullfinch, Chaffinch, Dunnocks, Wrens. We also Colour Ringed 4 Blackbirds. One of the last birds out of the nets was a cracking full adult Male Sparrow Hawk. A very busy day. Thanks to Phil and Sara for inviting me over.

Rishworth Twite seen at Cley today

 

I got a lovely email from David and Pat Wileman today:

Our friend Tony Aberdein found a couple of your C-R Twite in a flock of 34 feeding in the salt marsh adjacent to Cley West Bank this morning (Dec 11)TG045449. They occasionally went up on wires and he started trying to read the rings but only had bins. We then arrived with scopes and have hopefully
got the full combos. Wondered at first if they might have been Marcus's birds from Kelling (he passed on the details) but they seem to be different.

Bird 1
Left Red over White split ring over Carmine ring.
Right metal (code included the numbers 87) over Yellow over Blue split ring.

Ringed at Rishworh Quarry in September sorry to say the 87 is part of T938700>T938799

First reports of any of the Rishworth birds Yellow /Blue on the right leg with metal

Bird2
Left White over Red split ring over Carmine ring.
Right metal ring.
Didn't see this bird for as long as the first but don't think there was any
ring above the metal.

This Bird was ringed at Whiteholme reservoir SD960199  on the 09/08/2009

Whiteholme had white /red  over Bright Pink

Thanks for the photos as well

Being a Norfolk Boy i cannot blame them for wintering in a fantastic place

End the week on a high

Back down at Cooper Bridge today 30 Birds caught.

Mainly Blue Tits and Gt Tits

2 More Bullfinch

3 Robins today

1 Coal Tit

and on the last net round

a young Male Sparrowhawk

Very Nice.

Cooper Bridge

I was going over to Allerthorpe near York to day for a ringing session with Phil. But due to the shity weather this morning it was cancelled . I drove up to Ringstone edge to put some more seed down and had a mixed flock of 50 finches coming down. So i will try for them next week.

I then moved on to Scammonden to see if the GND was showing any better and i fell lucky, it was right down by the inflow and quite close.

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After taking about 300 photos i packed up and drove down to Cooper bridge where i set one 30ft net. 2 Hours later i packed up having ringed

3 Bullfinch

4 Gt Tits

2 Chaffinch

1 Coal Tit

6 Blue Tits

1 Robin

So not a bad day after a crappy start.

Ringstone edge

Last few days at Ringstone edge reservoir ringing near the feeding station { well seed on ground}

Birds ringed

11 Chaffinch

3 ReedBunting 2 new birds 1 retrap from july this year

6 Greenfinch

1 Dunnock retrap from December 2007

6 Goldfinch

1 Robin

Also had a Gt Northern Diver on the reservoir on Sunday

13 Whooper Swans on Monday

4 Shelduck today

and a text came in to say another Gt Northern on Scammonden today

so went for a Look

Yesterday

I was up and off at 630 to meet up with Andy . Because the weather has been so crap for mist netting we decided to get permission to try and catch a few Wildfowl around some local ponds and reservoir. Always nice to try a few different things . 2 Male Mallards caught just by using the bread and grab technique. On the way home stopped off at Cooper Bridge for 2 hours . The wind had died down so put up a 30ft net.

Gt Spotted Woodpecker ringed

with 4 Blue Tits

Coal Tit

6 Gt Tits

Oldest and furthest Twite

From Dave Sowter

Twite seen on Priest Island on 15 June 2009 by Jacquie Heaton of Highland Ringing Group. This bird had BTO ring R547*** identified and red over yellow on left. So it was a bird ringed between Jan and end of June 2003 at cant Clough. checking ring series there were 159 rings used R547001 - 260 between Jan and end of June 2003. BTO Used ringing date as 15 march 2003

Duration is 2284 days or 6yr 92days and the distance is 510 km.

I reckon this is probably the longest UK distance for a Twite and longevity record for twite