A Water Rail...in the Pentood nets on the 31st, our first of the year... Maybe some effort with potter traps as we hear several around the Marshes... On the 19th, 3 Firecrests near the River View Point on the Reserve. Three in October, perhaps a sign of breeding sites closer than we are aware... One was a returning bird - recorded both sides of the new year last winter. Since the 19th two further different individuals too..    9 Firecrests so far in 2024, 3 are returning birds and our peak recording period - November is yet to start.... ! Cetti's Warblers - wit ..read more

Mid September sessions on the Teifi Marshes have been limited by adverse weather conditions. On the 18th, after a typical session of mainly young Blackcaps and Chiffchaffs, the final bird of the morning was a surprise 2nd year Peregrine Falcon.  Mixed age brown and grey feathers on the mantle Not many adults are ringed in the UK, just 5 in 2022 and none in Wales for at least 5 years. The majority are ringed as pulli in nests. At other sites, Karen has been ringing Meadow Pipits on Dinas Mountain and a couple of sessions in Ty Rhyg forest. The most frequently encountered bird ..read more

Another Storm Petrel season at Strumble Head has drawn to a close During June, July and the start of August, 150 Storm Petrels were ringed and 12 re-encounters. 21 ringed at Strumble were re-encountered elsewhere. Measuring the wing of a Storm Petrel  We introduced Storm Petrel ringing not only to some of our ringing group but also some enthusiastic youngsters and other guests. Thanks to Stephen Hyam for capturing the atmosphere of a Storm Petrel night Some movements not detailed in previous blogs includes a Storm Petrel ringed on Alderney 40 days before. Storm Petrel P ..read more

Warbler and further Storm Petrel movements.   This movement of a Reed Warbler, presumably via the Teifi Marshes to it's west Ireland breeding site - where still a very scarce breeder. Reed Warbler  BBB2703 ringed Teifi Marshes, Ceredigion 04/05/2024 Re-encountered Shannon Airport Lagoon, Clare 20/07/2024 77 days 301km WNW Phil Brennan Garden Warbler - an example of three primaries being moulted - leading to a suspended wing moult prior to migration. (24/7) Sedge Warbler Sedge Warbler  BBB2670 Ringed  Teifi Marshes, Ceredigion 04/05/2024 Re-encountered  Litling ..read more

A little background to our increasing effort with Storm Petrels...  Skokholm warden, Rich Brown, believes nest site availability is a limiting factor to the breeding population on the island, currently c2000 pairs. With the building of two Petrel Stations on Skokholm with their c 250 nest chambers and with Lundy and Ramsey now rat free there is a great opportunity for the population to increase. This is Storm Petrel Station II on Skokholm, built and ready for the 2024 breeding season. This herringbone front contains the entrance to almost 120 nest chambers See the following link for th ..read more

Regular ringing at Cors Caron (Ceredigion) is continuing to produce a variety of species, some not regular at our other sites. This juvenile Redstart and adult male Whinchat - fine examples. Juvenile Redstart Adult male Whinchat Arfon is hoping that this year's CES style effort will result in Cors Caron becoming another CES for the TRG. On the north Pembs coast our Linnet RAS site is continuing to catch well. This leucistic Linnet stood out from the regular plumage birds. The last two sessions have produced mostly juvenile birds, presumably the adults now on second nesting ..read more

Reed Warblers are one of our RAS species on the Teifi Marshes. So far, 28 new, 8 returning birds have been re-encountered to the end of May.  At Cors Dyfi, 5 new, 1 returning breeding female from last year and this control that was  ringed at Llangorse lake 5 years ago Reed Warbler ANH2087 Ringed Llangorse Lake, Powys 20/08/2019 Re-encountered Cors Dyfi NNR 18/05/2024 1733 days 85km NNW So far this spring 160 Sedge Warblers have been ringed on the Teifi Marshes, mostly birds on migration. Two were also caught that we had ringed in previous years. The biggest Sedge Warbler ..read more

From mid April the first Sedge and Reed Warblers return to the Teifi Marshes.  The first Sedge Warbler was ringed on the 14th April. Sedge Warbler A Sedge Warbler that had been ringed in France was caught on the 18th April, the first re encounter and a foreign control of our 2024 spring migration monitoring on the reserve near Mallard pond. Sedge Warbler      9111953 Ringed   Audenge, Gironde, France 16/08/2023 Re-encountered  Teifi Marshes, Ceredigion 18/04/2022 246 days 864km NNW The recovery shows part of a usual movement of a "Teifi passage Sed ..read more

Chiffchaffs were caught at a couple of sites from the 11th of March including three re-encounters from previous years.  During last year we had only 6 similar re-encounters. Now the earliest Willow Warblers ... Two ringed on the 22nd, our previous earliest were ringed the 8th April, though we have heard a few before that date. Earlier in the month a Firecrest was a surprise on the 7th, our first ever in March.  Late news of a  Redwing    RY42097  ringed  on the Teifi Marshes, Pembs on the 13/10/2021 Shot  Soller, Mallorca, Spa ..read more

Details have been received of a Redwing with a Belgian ring caught in Wendy's garden near Cardigan on the 10th October 2023. 10X89020 was ringed on 14th November 2022 at Herentals, Antwerpen, Belgium.  330 days  658 km west. Redwing Lamping mainly during the new moon periods has been good this winter. Both teams out using Thermal Imagers to survey and find birds. Fieldfare - Brennig Recent evenings surveying in the dark on our Frenni and Boncath sites. Frenni, 60 Golden Plovers, 12 Woodcock, 10 Fieldfare, 4 Snipe. The small groups of ..read more