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

A Waxwing recovery... Colour- ringed Waxwing - Jen Evans A small number of Waxwings were seen daily on the Teifi Marshes from the 7th January, one of the seven on the 24th was seen to be colour ringed.  It was ringed by the Mid Wales Ringing Group near Treowen Leisure Centre in Newtown, Powys on 2nd January 2024. One of 25 ringed out of a flock of 67.  Thanks to Tony Cross for the ringing details. An update from Tony about other movements of Waxwings ringed in Newtown...  Onward Waxwing movements Arfon, out lamping with trainees, has captured and ringed the majori ..read more

2023 was another year of progress for the Teifi Ringing Group.   Looking forward to the future, several new trainees have been welcomed into the Group. Firstly we have chosen a Storm Petrel to feature. Our greater effort last summer, particularly at our original site of Strumble Head is producing some good results in controls, recoveries and numbers. This nicely complements our training and work at Mwnt. A Strumble Head Storm Petrel The table below is the Initial Year of Ringing Report for all TRG sites used in 2023. (not the number of re-encounters, but the number of i ..read more

Now that the 2022 ringing stats have been published by the BTO, a look at some of the numbers for WALES 20 % of all new Reed Warblers 40% of all new Sedge Warblers 50% of all new Reed Buntings ... in WALES were ringed by the TRG...mostly on the Teifi Marshes. The importance of this cross county site for population studies is immense.  91% of all new Linnets in Wales were ringed at Chris's Whoosh net RAS study site. 26% of all new House Sparrows in Wales were ringed at Andy's RAS study site With the REEWA,  REEBU,  LINNE and HOUSP RAS projects and the colour- ringing of REEBUS an ..read more

Re-sighting colour rings is an important part of the ringing scheme. Around the Teifi there are few opportunities to see waders close enough to record the rings as waders are often flushed or too distant. The higher tides push birds onto the sand in front of the Teifi Waterside Hotel, Pembs and Patch on the Ceredigion side of the estuary. Hannah and Liz have spent hours there recently with great results. A Common Greenshank ringed in Norway on passage at Revtangen Ornithological Station  on 6th August 2023 Resighted Teifi Estuary 19th August 2023  978km 13 days This was a very brie ..read more

We had to abandon our Retrapping Adults for Survival project for Linnets at Mwnt in 2019 as a result of the pandemic and the subsequent surge in 'staycationing' making continued operation of the site impossible. In 2022 we were lucky to find a much more secluded site on the Pembrokeshire coast between Cemaes Head and Newport, along with a sympathetic and supportive landowner. We started ringing Linnets there to see if it would support a replacement RAS project. It soon became obvious that the potential was there. By the end of August 2022 we had ringed 137 breeding adults (80 male, 57 female ..read more

Reed Warbler update.. Adult re-encounters on the Teifi Marshes have slowly increased towards the expected number of returning birds. 163 juveniles have been ringed so far this season. Migration is underway demonstrated by a juvenile Reed Warbler being re-encountered by Gower Ringing Group Reed Warbler AAZ7527 Ringed Teifi Marshes, Ceredigion 11/07/2023 Re-encountered Oxwich Marsh, Swansea 06/08/2023 26 days 67km SSE Gower RG Sedge Warbler passage through the Teifi Marshes is quieter than historically but different weather conditions play a big part. No easterlies in particular make a differen ..read more

During ongoing Linnet and House Sparrow RAS (retrapping Adults for Survival) studies we are seeing returning adults amongst the many juveniles. This early in the season it is difficult to analyse as most adults are on second broods. Chris and Andy will summarise later in the season. Coastal habitat at the North Pembs Linnet RAS site A juvenile (3JP) Reed Warbler  ringed on the 6th June was the earliest date for us by 12 days. By the 14th of July we have ringed 56 juvenile birds presume most fledged on the Teifi Marshes, our RAS study site now in its 9th year. We have f ..read more