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Gillian Dinsmore’s Bird Ringing Blog: August 2012

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Thursday, 16 August 2012. Flick Me A Swift! In June, whilst out checking on a few nests around the local cemetery, we noticed some Swifts flying particularly low amongst the gravestones. We decided to take the opportunity to try some flick netting so jumping in the car we whizzed back to the house, picked up the gear and hurried back before the Swifts started flying high again. These little high flying wonders have such extremely sharp claws it’s unreal and very painful! Lesson learned I think! Back in J...

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Gillian Dinsmore’s Bird Ringing Blog: Summing up The Siskin

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Monday, 2 February 2015. Summing up The Siskin. Just a quick update on the Siskin today:. It's been almost a year since I was sat at my bedroom window at university catching Siskins - See Here. In the end I ringed over 350 and now have had time to play with Google Earth and map the controls/recoveries. I managed to catch 16 controls between March and May last year and as you can see from the map below they came from all over the UK. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Gillian Dinsmore's Bird Ringing Blog.

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Gillian Dinsmore’s Bird Ringing Blog: Galloway Gulls

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Sunday, 26 April 2015. Recently I posted a quick update about a new project I am embarking on and in this post I am going to explain a little bit more about the project and why I want to study Scottish breeding Common Gulls. Common Gulls in The UK. The Galloway Common Gull Study aims to investigate the breeding biology and migratory behaviour of this stunning and charismatic bird. The Common gull larus canus. To find out more about the breeding biology and dispersal of the Common Gull this study will mon...

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Gillian Dinsmore’s Bird Ringing Blog: March 2012

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Thursday, 22 March 2012. Last week, whilst out nest recording on campus, I came across a couple of new colour ringed Mute Swans on Airthrey Loch. Mute swans may appear to just be sedentary to 'their ponds' but they do in fact move! The last colour marked Mute Swan that I observed down on the loch turned out to have quite the history ( see here. And so I was eager to hear back about these individuals too. Green LZX was ringed as a cygnet at Linlithgow Loch in. Labels: Airthrey Loch swans. After arriving a...

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Ryan Knight-Fox Bird Ringing: Species number 16

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Ryan Knight-Fox Bird Ringing. Thursday, 1 December 2016. I have now ringed 16 species and just over 150 birds at this site. Thank you to the Teifi Ringers for their advice on how to catch the Redwing and thank you Charlie for the Latvian Redwing sound, which brought them down to the mist net. I caught the first one at 8:30am and then two more at 9:00am. Other birds ringed this morning, starting at 6:45am, were: 2 Blackbirds, 3 Blue tits, 1 Chaffinch and another male Great spotted woodpecker.

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Gillian Dinsmore’s Bird Ringing Blog: Eggciting News!

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Friday, 8 May 2015. The gulls seem to be picking up the pace now down at the main study site for The Galloway Common Gull Study. After checking a section of the site last week I was pleased to find 12 new nests and a couple of complete clutches. If these complete clutches are successful through to hatching then we can expect the first chicks at the end of the month….good thing the colour rings are on order! Spot the freshly laid egg! There only 1 week left to go now until the project page. PS There are s...

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Ryan Knight-Fox Bird Ringing: August 2016

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Ryan Knight-Fox Bird Ringing. Tuesday, 30 August 2016. Setting up bird ringing in my garden/woodland. Since receiving my C permit on the 23rd of August, thanks to the Teifi Ringers and especially to my trainer Chris, I am now set up to do some ringing in my garden/woodland. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Bird ringing acitivities since gaining my C permit as a member of the Teifi Ringers. BTO Bird Ringing - 'Demog Blog'. Ringing, recording and recoveries at Sandwich Bay.

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Ryan Knight-Fox Bird Ringing: That enjoyable moment when the sun finally appears.

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Ryan Knight-Fox Bird Ringing. Monday, 24 October 2016. That enjoyable moment when the sun finally appears. I was out three times last week, but not a lot to show for it. I ran out of sunflower seeds, so less chaffinches and no goldfinches. I did get another woodpecker though and a pair of bullfinches :). Male (red patch on the back of the head), Great spotted-woodpecker. A few flocks of Redwing have flown over so fingers crossed. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.

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Ryan Knight-Fox Bird Ringing: Over 100 birds

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Ryan Knight-Fox Bird Ringing. Sunday, 16 October 2016. Nice first net round with four new birds, Nuthatch, Chaffinch, Robin and another Goldfinch. This is the 3rd Nuthatch I have ringed, so far I have had two males and one female. The image below indicates that this is a male from the deep rufous feathers underneath its tale. I also had two helpers for a little while, my wife Cathryn, who got to ring bird number 100 (Chaffinch) and my daughter Savannah who was just a bit of a heavy lump :).