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

150 bird day

Great morning at Christine's garden in St johns with Kev today. 122 New birds ringed with  28 retraps.

Kev will give me full details later. We didn't set up until 0930 to give the birds a chance to feed.

from then on it was none stop.

Blue Tits Great Tits Coal tits Long tailed Tits Chaffinch Siskin Goldfinch House Sparrow Robin Dunnock

Blackbirds and Treecreeper

Thanks to Christine for the toast and tea and the banter.

Here are todays totals –

                                                      New Birds               Retraps        Totals

          Dunnock                                   4                                0                  4

          Robin                                       5                                 0                 5

          Blackbird                                  9                                 0                 9

          Long-tailed Tit                           7                                 0                 7

          Coal Tit                                    10                               10               20

          Blue Tit                                    36                                9                45

          Great Tit                                  12                                5                17

          Treecreeper                               1                                 0                 1

          House Sparrow                          8                                 1                 9

          Chaffinch                                 23                                3                 26

          Goldfinch                                   3                                 0                 3

          Siskin                                       4                                 0                 4

                            Total:                   122                                28              150

Out and about on Sunday to windy for any ringing so took camera out

2A93 ringed in Ramsey Harbour November 18 2011 Seen yesterday Ramsey Harbour

2A95 ringed in Ramsey Harbour on 6 January 2012 seen Ramsey Harbour yesterday