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
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Wow! Up close with a drake Ring-necked Duck today in Norfolk, Ontario! #birdringing @emmabuck.bsky.social
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Female Northern Wheatear caught and ringed under licence @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social this morning. A very worn 2nd calendar year bird #birdringing #birdbanding
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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
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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
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The Spring continues to give with firsts of Scops Owl and European Bee-eater at the Jew’s Gate Observatory #Gibraltar #birdringing #gonhs
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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
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Lovely morning #birdringing (under licence) before work, a mixture of late winter visitors and early summer migrants #cambsbirds
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Male Siskin
Norwegian ring
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
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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
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6 Rock Pipits ringed at Low Newton this morning, some quite scruffy in moult + a range of plumage variation.
New colour rings to look out for... all green with white letters, AZ, DV, FC, FT, CL and BA.
#NEbirding #Lowcarbonbirding #Birdringing
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A winter journey from Brno to the Alps 🐦⛰️
On 2 Dec 2025, we colour-ringed two young Black Redstarts at a brownfield site in Brno (Czechia): L5 and M0.
Both birds disappeared soon afterwards.
Then something unexpected happened… 🧵👇
#birdringing #blackredstart #BrnoRedstarts
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This pair of colour-ringed Brent Geese (LZGH & LZGT), pictured off Leigh-on-Sea on 10 February, were ringed on Terschelling 🇳🇱 in May 2018. Since then, they’ve been regularly seen at Leigh-on-Sea in winter and at various locations on the Dutch coast in spring. 🧪🌍 #EssexBirding #BirdRinging
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At least 7 littoralis Rock Pipits at Low Newton this morning and 2 new colour rings to look out for, Green HK and Green DF.
#NEbirding #Lowcarbonbirding #Birdringing
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Today I caught one of the largest female Mute Swans I've ever seen in the hand, with a 600mm wing - that's essentially adult male size. Thankfully she is in a well-established breeding pair, and thus could be correctly sexed (her mate is even bigger!). #birdringing #birdbanding #ornithology
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Had a great colour-ringed Oystercatcher sighting result yesterday. It was ringed in Devon, 2019 as an 8 yr old bird. Resighted some 50 times over the next 6 and a half years, always within 1km....until yesterday! #lincsbirding #ukbirding #waders #birdringing
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Another lovely early spring morning @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social ... male Stonechat and Wheatear #Birdringing #Ukbirding
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Chiffchaff and Chironomid midges, South Milton Ley. Photo: R. Moore
Now pollen coated birds are returning, it’s time to stop the survey of Chiffs wintering near the sewage works. Endless wet weather reduced the catch to just 71 birds. However, capture/recapture models indicate a population of c. 272 birds. Just a little lower than 2024/25. #birdringing #ukbirding
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