In many ways, it’s been a quiet winter ringing season, with small captures dominating most of the winter ringing sites and gardens. This could be down to a mix of factors, but certainly a poor breeding season for some species may have something to do with it, and the mild weather may well have reduced many birds dependence on artificial food supplies. The recoveries haven’t been particularly busy either, so perhaps this is down to similar reasons.
A Kestrel, ringed as a chick in Halloughton in July 2021, hit a window in Barrowden, Rutland in October the same year.
A Blue Tit, ringed in Thrussington, Leics in April 2021, was controlled in Toton in December, a fairly unusual movement for this rather sedentary species.
Redpoll recoveries continue to come in, with a bird ringed in the influx of 2020, in November at Bestwood controlled in Golspie in the Highlands in May 2021. Another Redpoll was ringed at Ramsdale in October 2021 and caught a month later in the Forest of Dean.
A Chiffchaff, caught at Ramsdale in September 2021, was caught a week later at Stanford Reservoir in Leics. Ringers at this site regularly control warblers that SNRG have caught at their summer sites at Holme Pierrepont and Ramsdale.
Also at Ramsdale, a Chiffchaff was caught in September 2021 which ad previously been ringed at Gibraltar Point on the Lincs coast in July the same year.
And finally, a Reed Warbler, caught at Holme Pierrepont in July 2020, was controlled in August the same year by ringers in Hainaut, Belgium.
Tom
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