This weekend we carried out our fourth visit for this season’s winter CES, fifth visit including non-CES visits. It was a frosty start but s...

This weekend marked our third visit for this season’s winter CES, with Alex and I organising the session. We caught 47 birds in total throug...

Here’s a selection of the recoveries from the second half of the year.  First, the Cormorants. The very few we have ringed recently, along w...

After a rather disappointing visit last weekend we carried out our third visit, officially CES visit 2 on Sunday and had a much better catch...

It was disappointing to arrive on site and find the wire holding up the six hanging feeders had snapped since last weekend and all the smal...

Kev B, Josh and I set up the feeders for the coming winter. It needed some strimming and heavier clearing and the small feeder suspension wi...

Managed to get in a visit here with Mick P before the calm weather was forecast to break. We set just 2 pairs of 18m nets aiming to lure in ...

I visited this site for the third consecutive year from 3-13 October. Colin McShane from the Belvide R.G. has been organising ringing at thi...

This young male Sparrowhawk did a good job of keeping other birds away during my catching efforts this morning near Bestwood, particularly t...

Having noticed plenty of Redpoll flying over at Colwick Park and my garden, I thought a trip to Gedling CP would be a good idea. I didn...

As at Holme Pierrepont, the extent of the scrub is also diminishing rapidly as the trees get bigger, which is affecting the site's produ...

The willows get bigger, the scrub diminishes rapidly and the sites productivity is now a shadow of what it was. In the period covered we mad...

My twice-yearly pilgrimage to the Portland Bird Observatory with Mick Thompson is always a highlight, and this trip from 19-22 September 202...

After the passage of Willow Warblers in August, the first couple of weeks of September sees Chiffchaffs becoming the main species passing th...

Having planned to have a few earlier session, for one reason or another I had not been able to get out to Gedling CP until August. It start...