Heysham Obs
Foul, wet south-easterly - the sort which sometimes produces bedraggled Black Redstarts...or Desert Wheatears for the optimistic dreamers. Some preliminary analysis of this year's CES results available at
http://blx1.bto.org/general/ces_results.pdf
This includes contributions from our sites at Heysham NR and Middleton NR. A notable correlation with our findings has been the serious reduction of adult Greenfinch (trich. disease), counterbalanced by excellent productivity. Therefore a majority of the above-average 250+ ringed at Heysham this year were 1CY's during August-October.
North harbour wall
Twite - an Askam-ringed bird for the first time this autumn, but I didnt definitely see the split ring properly, but looked like yellow over green/white, no sign of the two Machrihanish birds, at least 5 out of the 27 ringed birds were red/white, 10-11 unringed
Linnet - 5-6
Goldfinch - 1
Med Gull - adult
Ocean Edge/Red Nab
Med Gull - 2CY on the mudflats
Meadow Pipit - 1
Elsewhere
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Wednesday, 17 November 2010
Good numbers of grounded thrushes but no vis
Heysham Obs
A short ringing session by the office should in retrospect have included some other nets to obtain a reasonable thrush catch. Indeed, 5 long-winged continental Blackbirds were caught in the feeder nets with the same number escaping as is their want. A walk round the reserve wetlands to check for Cetti's Warbler produced a good number of grounded thrushes, but little else of interest
Heysham NR
Blackbird - c40 (those caught suggested 2:3 ratio of new birds/off-passage)
Redwing - c40
Song Thrush - 5
Skylark - 1 SE, the only absolutely definite vis mig!
Chaffinch - 5 early on S/SW
Goldfinch - flock of 25 high to SW may have been on vis mig
Wren - at least 7 in the wetland areas
Late news for yesterday
Chiffchaff - silent 'brown' bird Middleton NR
Water Rail - 2+ Middleton NR
A short ringing session by the office should in retrospect have included some other nets to obtain a reasonable thrush catch. Indeed, 5 long-winged continental Blackbirds were caught in the feeder nets with the same number escaping as is their want. A walk round the reserve wetlands to check for Cetti's Warbler produced a good number of grounded thrushes, but little else of interest
Heysham NR
Blackbird - c40 (those caught suggested 2:3 ratio of new birds/off-passage)
Redwing - c40
Song Thrush - 5
Skylark - 1 SE, the only absolutely definite vis mig!
Chaffinch - 5 early on S/SW
Goldfinch - flock of 25 high to SW may have been on vis mig
Wren - at least 7 in the wetland areas
Late news for yesterday
Chiffchaff - silent 'brown' bird Middleton NR
Water Rail - 2+ Middleton NR
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