The latest few batches of recoveries come as a bit of a mixed bag, with several species ringed by the group being represented.
Firstly, two Barn Owls. One was ringed at Clifton Wood as a nestling in
September last year and found dead nearby at Burrows Farm in
April this year. The other Barn Owl travelled a little further, being
found dead as a road casualty in Cambridgeshire in April, 81km from
where it was ringed as a chick in Elton in June last year.
An
Attenborough-born Grey Heron, colour-ringed in June 2013 was re-sighted
at Carsington Water in Derbyshire recently. It's encouraging to get some
resightings of these colour-ringed birds, generating some useful data
from this relatively new project for the group.
A Sparrowhawk
which was caught as Jim was setting the nets in preparation for the
Winter Thrush sessions in Flintham Orchard in December last year, was
found dead in the village in May this year, supposedly caught by an
animal...
A Whitethroat, ringed as a 3J at Holme Pierrepont in Aaugust 2014, was found dead in May this year the other side of
Nottingham, in Bulwell. It goes to show that these young birds do
sometimes show a preference for the area in which they were raised, as this
one would have made the journey to Africa and back and was found not too
far from where it was ringed.
A Jackdaw ringed as a nestling in
Calverton in May last year met its end against some overhead wires in
Bestwood, where it was found freshly dead in May this year.
And
the latest recovery comes in the form of a Little Owl, found dead in
Ruddington in May this year. It was ringed nearby in Keyworth as a chick
in May last year.
Tom
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