Tree Pipits are often seen flying overhead in Skagen so it is really nice to occasionally catch them during the morning ringing.

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Back ringing at #Culverwell @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social #Dorset and my first bird after a misty start was this fab looking Willow Warbler. #birdringing

For me, another spring season at Jew’s Gate Field Centre comes to an end. Some amazing numbers of Phylloscs, Woodchat Shrike & Hoopoe #Gibraltar #birdringing #Gonhs

A wren held between fingers. Credit: Tom Marshall

Great news! Although the main #ecotour is fully booked, we have a few spaces available for the morning #birdringing experience on 13th June. Join us at 6am as Henry and his volunteers record this important data for our monitoring programme www.wildlifebcn.org/events/2026-... @wildlifebcn.org

My #birdringing journey with @btobirds.bsky.social began in 2007. I got my 'C' permit in 2010 & my 'A' permit in 2014. Some of my favourite birds to ring are finches. This mornings session was full of them! #birdconservation #wildlifestories

Another fine morning #birdringing (under licence) in Cambridgeshire with a modest catch, but summer migrants aplenty and breeding birds very active - nice to find a Long-tailed Tit nest 📷

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Female Cirl Bunting

A beautiful spring day with a few birds as a bonus. Marsh Harrier on site and 29 birds ringed including the first Willow and Sedge Warblers of the year plus 7 each of Chiffchaff and Blackcap with backup of two Cetti’s Warblers and a pair of Cirl Buntings. #birdringing #ukbirding

Great conditions of low cloud and occasional drizzle meant a good total today. Four Wood Warblers and four Pied Fly were both new for this spring. #Gibraltar #GONHS #birdringing

Lovely spring morning full of birdsong at Sevenhampton. A big 22 Blackcap's ringed with un-ringed, singing birds passing us by at the ringing table all morning. Also ringed, 2 Chiffchaff plus a couple of stunning male Greenfinch #birdringing @wiltsbirdclub.bsky.social

The king of the Curruca warblers. Our second Orphean Warbler of the year at JG Observatory #Gibraltar #Gonhs #birdringing

Amazingly our 100th ringed Bonelli’s Warbler of the spring. Somewhere this species is breeding very successfully.
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The 1000th bird of the spring, 3 days earlier than last year. Inevitably it’s a female Blackcap. Here at Jew’s Gate Field Centre, #Gibraltar #birdringing #gonhs

Wow! Up close with a drake Ring-necked Duck today in Norfolk, Ontario! #birdringing @emmabuck.bsky.social

Female Northern Wheatear caught and ringed under licence @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social this morning. A very worn 2nd calendar year bird #birdringing #birdbanding

Retrapped this venerable old Meadow Pipit @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social today. 1st ringed by @hilbre.bsky.social on 18/5/2018 making it nearly 8 years old #birdringing #birdbanding

Male Redpoll

Female Redpoll

Male Siskin

Female Siskin

Male & female Redpoll & Siskin ringed in south Staffordshire in recent week. We've also been catching some birds ringed in Scotland & one in Norway @btobirds.bsky.social @westmidbirdclub.bsky.social #BirdRinging

The Spring continues to give with firsts of Scops Owl and European Bee-eater at the Jew’s Gate Observatory #Gibraltar #birdringing #gonhs

Redpoll in the hand - caught under licence

Female Wheatear in the hand - caught under licence

Reed Bunting in the hand - caught under licence

Long-tailed Tit in the hand - caught under licence

March has been a great month for bird ringing @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social with a variety of species ringed and unusually good numbers of Goldcrest, Chiffhaff and Robin this early in spring #birdringing #Ukbirding

Lovely morning #birdringing (under licence) before work, a mixture of late winter visitors and early summer migrants #cambsbirds

The main reedbed net ride at South Milton Ley

A sunny but frosty start to the day. Nets up in the reedbed for the 1st time this year. A brisk start tailed off with just 2 birds trapped after 09:15. 18 in total: 1 Blackcap, 3 Blue Tit, 2 Cetti’s, 1 Chaffinch, 4 Chiffs, 1 Dunnock, 1 Lotti, 1 Robin, 1 Song Thrush, 3 Wren. #birdringing #ukbirding

Another glorious spring day at Sevenhampton. Lots of Redpoll movement although we only caught 3. Also, 3 new Blackcap, a random Coal Tit, Reed Bunting & 5 Chiffchaff inc. a retrap from 2025. Also 2 bonus B-1's waking up the residents of Fairford nice & early #birdringing @wiltsbirdclub.bsky.social

Days of Easterlies with low cloud and drizzle produced an amazing spring ringing session at the Jew’s Gate Observatory #Gibraltar. 127 new birds with day records of 28 Bonelli’s Warbler and 8 Woodchat Shrikes will be hard to beat. #birdringing #gonhs

Early fog at Sevenhampton soon cleared into a warm sunny spring morning. 4 Chiffchaff ringed & plenty more around. We also caught a surprise new Marsh Tit along with a Jay that had the usual attitude problems #birdringing @wiltsbirdclub.bsky.social

A strange few ringing days at the #Gibraltar bird observatory. The 8th and 9th ever Goldcrests. Only the 6th ever spring Bullfinch and firsts for the year of Redstart, Bonelli’s & Subalpine Warbler and Tree Pipit. #birdringing #gonhs

A Pink-footed Goose (VLF) I saw in east Norfolk in Sep 2021 with Jack Morris had been ringed in NW Iceland in Jul 2017. It’s since been seen elsewhere in Norfolk, Lancashire and Caithness. Jack was also responsible for the Caithness sightings: in 2024 and again this week! 🇮🇸🧪🌍 #UKbirding #birdringing

A Black-headed Gull (2F06) I ringed in Southend-on-Sea in February 2023 was in a Dutch colony at Zoetermeer by the following month. It’s now back in the same colony for its fourth consecutive season, having been seen there this week! 🇳🇱🧪🌍 #EssexBirding #BirdRinging

Woodpigeon ringed via a homemade walk-in trap on Monday. The transition from grey to white in the upperwing coverts is difficult to appreciate in the field. #EssexBirding #BirdRinging

Male Siskin

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Male Siskin caught in south Staffordshire today that had been caught by others in our group 3km away on 25th January & ringed as an adult 1,169km away in Norway on 9th June 2024 #birdringing #BelvideRingingGroup @btobirds.bsky.social @westmidbirdclub.bsky.social

I hadn’t ringed Dartford Warbler here on #Gibraltar in the spring until this year and another turns up. This 2nd calendar year bird showed some interesting secondary moult. #gonhs #birdringing