More Herring Gulls

Set Spring trap in Garden today  for Herring Gulls

4 Gulls Ringed and a individual Darvic ring on Left leg as well.

Well Chough’ed

A Great big Thank you to Chris Sharpe from Manx Birdlife and Kevin Scott for the invitation to colour ring Chough Pulli this afternoon.

A Great Afternoon and one i will always remember.

Nice to finally meet you Kevin.

New Site

I Got Permission to ring in the willows and scrub at Smeale so today went for a recce. 1 30ft net put up . Straight away i got a  Male Whitethroat and then 10 minutes later a Sedge Warbler looks like it could be a nice site when all the young are darting about.

Also this week  more Garden Ringing with another  Siskin  and all the Usual. Still can not get used to ringing Siskins in May  every time i see them on my feeder i smile

2 More Wheatear ringed up at the Point of Ayre at the start of the week.

Nice to see and ring the Sedge Warbler back in Halifax  you could get a Twitch going  for one of these

Whitethroat

Last Week

Out a few Mornings last week. In my Garden

a well behaved Female Magpie

House Sparrows

Chaffinch's

Gt Tit

Coal Tits

Greenfinch's

Goldfinches'

and

2 Siskins 1Male 1 Female

Up at the Point of Ayre no Wheatears seen

but a Female Stonechat was nice

also shot of the Male i ringed the week before

A morning at Port Lawaigue was quite with only 7  new birds being caught in 3 hours

 

Blackcaps 2 females

1 Robin

Pair of Blackbirds

1 Gt Tit

1 Goldcrest

Some more pictures from Andy yesterday with more LEO Chicks back in Yorkshire

Back in Yorkshire

Andy having a good year for Owls this Year , the last two years have been very wet
and chicks have been found drowned in nest.
So far him and Pete have got 28 Tawnys on Eggs. LEO and Barn Owl numbers are going well.

End of another Week

2 More Wheatears ringed this week at the point of Ayre bringing the total to 5 so far

Also some garden ringing with more Goldfinch, House SparrowGreenfinch, Robins and Coal Tits.

A Nice surprise on the Nyger feeders yesterday with 3 Redpoll and 3 Siskin feeding. It was to windy to put a net up and one of the Redpolls was already ringed Also in the Scotch Pines that run along my garden border there is a Rookery and Jackdaw nests . In the 20 ft net by the feeders i had a just fledged Jackdaw  the other day  and it was quite a character .

Wheatears

Here one i did early

Redpoll on feeders already ringed

Sea watching from the garden

No ringing today waiting for a delivery. Took a cup of tea down the garden for 10 minutes and did a nice bit of sea watching

5 Sandwich Terns diving quite near edge

3 Razorbills

6 Gannets

4 Eiders

2 Cormorants

1 Shag

2 Common Sandpipers on rocks

4 Oystercatcher

a good ten minutes

Stonechat and Wheatears

Went up to the Point of Ayre again Today to try for some more Wheatears. 2 more Male  Wheatears Caught and a male Stonechat.

Other birds about

20 + Linnets

4 Chough

11 Sandwich Tern

40+ Sand Martins

14  Gannet