An Amazing Avocet and Recent Recoveries
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A French ringed Avocet has just returned to the Allen Pool at the RSPB Leighton Moss and Morecambe Bay Reserve. This bird is in its 14th year and excluding the regular sightings from the Allen Pool it has been recorded 138 times so we know a great deal about its movements. It was first colour ringed  as a nestling on 20 June 2008 at Saint-Moule Brittany France and remained in this area for the next three and a half years being sighted 100 times. Then it was sighted on the Allen Pool for the first time on 26th March 2012.It paired and nested that year but was back in Brittany by September ..read more
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Group Update and Recent Recoveries
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    2021 was another difficult year for the group due mainly to the covid restrictions, in total we handled 7012 birds. The largest numbers ringed  was 795 Pied Flycatchers in our 725 nest boxes that we have in the  Lune valley and Bowland woodlands. Second came Goldfinch with 548 mainly ringed at garden feeders. Recently we have caught some numbers of Siskin as they move into well stocked gardens as their natural food supplies dwindle. We know from our previous ringing that most of our passage or wintering Siskins come from the Scottish breeding population with 39 from Nor ..read more
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Recent Wader Movements and Greenfinch Populations
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 Three recent colour ringed sightings show unexpected movements.  An adult Dunlin ringed in North Wales at 23.40 on August 11 was sighted on the RSPB Eric Morecambe Complex of wader pools on the edge of Morecambe Bay. It had travelled ca 200 kms north in ca 40 hours. It remains there at present. A recently fledged Lapwing ringed in May 2020 was sighted on the southern edge of Morecambe Bay in mid August this year  a movement of 385 km NW. An Avocet colour ringed before fledging on  June 1 as part of Ian Hartley's study on the south of Morecambe Bay moved  ca 25 km nort ..read more
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Our Pied Flycather RAS and Recent Recoveries
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 Because of corvid restrictions it was another  difficult year for our monitoring of our Pied Flycatcher RAS in the Lune valley, but the good news is that  the total occupied  boxes increased from 120 last year  to 130 this year with much of the increase being in the larger woods. However predation, probably by Stoats or Weasels was severe in  two of our larger woods. One with 20 occupied boxes successfuly fledged only two nests the other also wih 20 occupied boxes had only eight nests succesful. By contrast  10 smaller woods had 44 occupied boxes of which 41 ..read more
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Nest Box Progress and Recent Recoveries
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 Its been a difficult season so far for our nest boxes. A few Great and Blue Tits started at the usual time, but most are 10-15 days late no doubt due to the cold April . Clutch and brood size have been low in the tits and Nuthatch and there has been several cases of the all brood  being found dead. It has varied somewhat from site to site , difficult to know why this should be be . At one site close to a well stocked feeding station,  survival and brood size has been good. But at another,  also close to feeding stations it is the worst season in over twenty years. Besides ..read more
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Another Knot post
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 It's a while since I posted anything about Knot. The project keeps going with sightings coming in thick and fast from the North West and recently Orkney, Shetland and Iceland. We have been very successful at colour marking moulters and winterers on the Sefton coast however the group we have targeted and failed are the 2nd year birds which historically congregate on the Sefton coast throughout summer. This changed last week when we added colour rings to around 250 2nd year birds and recaught three that were ringed last autumn in Ceredigion.  One day I hope we will have answered some ..read more
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Pied FlycatcherFamilies
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 Have spent some time during the lockdown looking at our Pied Flycatcher data.  In total the group has ringed 10,153  nestlings from around 1650 broods. Return rates since we started the RAS in 2012 has been around 9%.  Most of the birds returning  as adults are the only one which survives from a brood of 6 or 7. However I discovered that  two birds from 37 broods had survived to  return as breeding  adults. However a brood of six ringed in  2012 was exceptional as four nestlings returned  to breed in our nestboxes in the following years. Adult ..read more
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Recent Recoveries
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The most unexpected recent recovery was a Blackcap ringed on 26 November  in Daves garden which sadly flew into a window 56 days later at Glastonbury Somerset 290 kms south on January 1st. Obviously a wintering bird that was still on the move. Our first recovery of a wintering Blackcap. A Sedge Warbler in Loire Atlantique France  in mid August was the Groups 57th Sedge Warbler from France. Also we have had 59 from the south coast of Enngland. However we  have only had three from Spain and one from Portugal. Sedge Warblers prepare for a long haul flight by accumulating  fat ..read more
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Highlights of 2020
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 A difficult year because of the lockdowns, but the group managed to ring 6006 new birds just over 3000 down on 2019. We didnt do our two RAS 's for Bearded Tits and Reed Warbler at Leighton Moss, but we did our Sand Martin and Pied Flycatcher studies in the Lune valley. The Pied Flycatcher study was a real highlight with a peak of 120 occupied nest boxes and despite not ringing in two woods we ringed 97 new adults, 812 nestlings and had 150 retraps. Other good numbers ringed were 561 Meadow Pipits 153 Redwing, 126 Dippers and 99 Grey Wagtails. Recovery highlights were our furthest north ..read more
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Knot at Heysham
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Recently Knot have taken a lot of the birding attention with record numbers seen at Snettisham in October producing some spectacular videos and photos. Some of these went viral and even appeared on the BBC quiz of the week's news. Over the current series of tides spies/dedicated observers have been out at Heysham and collectively have produced records of about 20 individually colour ringed Knot. It would be easy to give the full life histories of them all and say 'oh, that's interesting' and move on. There is, however, a fair amount of value in looking further. I'll start with a brief summary ..read more
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