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Some tidy tides
The last set of high tides at Ynyslas at the end of August/start of September proved pretty amazing as would be expected at this time of the year. Visiting ringers Stephen Harris-Vickers and Kirsty...
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Ynyslas NNR exporting plastic to Africa!
Two recent examples as to why Wales exporting plastic to Africa may not be the terrible act it sounds!A couple of emails today showed the huge value to be gained from adding just a very small amount of...
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The long and the short of it...
Last night Tony and I headed out to try to mist net some owls that he had seen a week or so ago near one of his ringing sites. We would have gone sooner to try for them, but as is normally the case in...
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A little bit of magic...
After several nights up on the hills trapping and ringing 'our' wintering waders, Silvia and I decided to head to the coast to try for some different waders at another one of our wader ringing sites....
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Baby come back
In 2016 and 2017 we had a brief spell working with the Powys Moorland Partnership monitoring their small Lapwing and Curlew breeding population. The above Curlew chick is the only one we ever managed...
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Not well Choughed!
In September we had a report that two of our colour-ringed Choughs had been re-sighted near Settle in the Yorkshire Dales the first Choughs sighted in Yorkshire for 25 years! The birds were siblings...
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What a Twite!
One of the 8 Twite ringed at Ynyslas on 26th November 2018 - the first ever in CeredigionOn 26th November 2018, at one of our regular ringing sites next to Ynyslas NNR, I caught my first ever Twite in...
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The welcome return of KFC
No, not a news item about the slackening of Covid-19 restrictions in the takeaway industry.Thuens Kruger, an avid Sandwich Tern colour-ring reader in South Africa, has just sent me details of Sandwich...
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We can CU
People call them "unprecedented times", I cannot possibly say what I call them!!This year's planned Curlew work, along with so much else, has been shelved, just a small piece of the resulting worldwide...
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Sweet SA
Last night was the first of the next set of high tides for ringing at Ynyslas. As the winds were light and conditions were right I decided to forgo wader dazzling in favour of mist-netting terns. On...
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Egrets return
I have recently received reports (and photographs) of two of our colour-ringed Little Egrets. Both birds were ringed on the same day (25th June 2012) over 8 years ago. The first (White T, Yellow A)...
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There are some nights when woodcock ringing is just hard work. Last night aided by Bethyn Thomas and his Dad we saw 38 woodcock, but I could only catch 3. This was because it was very calm and the...
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A Great Spot (for Woodpeckers)
Posts on the blog have tailed off a bit in recent years as most of what we do is part of long-term projects, so can become a bit repetitive! Anyway, life has really changed now and anything we manage...
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We're Knot flagging!
Last year we started two new colour-ringed projects putting leg-flags on Knot and Turnstone. The Turnstone ringing has yet to yield many resightings but the Knot flagging is already proving very...
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Curlew là là
On 10th July 2021 Pierre Leon photographed Curlew Yellow ZB on the shore of Plage du Vogue, Guisseny, France. This bird was caught and ringed in the breeding season at one of the Curlew Country...
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First and Fortunate 2
Over the last 20 odd years records of Hobby in summer have increased in Ceredigion. Tregaron Bog and Borth Bog have been favoured sites as the birds hunt the plentiful supplies of dragonflies. More...
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Curlew chick releases
For the past few years I have been working for Curlew Country on the Shropshire/Powys border trying to help maintain the small, remnant, lowland Curlew population there. In the initial years our...
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Where do you think you're going?
Photo by Alex JamiesonAn email popped into my inbox today with details of a sighting of a young Kestrel, ringed earlier this year in one of Red...
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New Colour-ring Reporter App
Thanks to the IT skills of Stephen Vickers we now have an automated colour-ring reporter app. If you click the link on the top right of the website you will see the above screen and there you can...
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Pushing boundaries
Since the formation of the Mid Wales Ringing Group (and the start of the Dunlin colour-ringing project) in 2016 we have individually colour-marked over 6,000 Dunlin. The colour-marking has massively...
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