Sunday 15 November 2020

Eleven ringed Knot read!

The wind shifted back to SW and strengthened significantly. Some very heavy showers, some of hail.

Kittiwake 1 adult offshore
Mediterranean gull - 2 adult followed the ferry into the harbour. Later 1 was on No.2 outflow, but only for the duration of a particularly heavy squall.

Med seeing out a squall on the outflow


Middleton Nature Reserve 
Gadwall 32
Mallard 2
Shoveller 1
Little Grebe 2

Richard Du Feu and Howard Stockdale managed to read 11 ringed Knot roosting in the heliport area.
Howard managed top quality images of 10 of them. The selection below shows the various ringing schemes, plus some preliminary history from Richard. Many thanks to Howard for these images:

N3GYNN - this bird is also fitted with a transmitter 


KX - last seen on the Wash in August.



CHL - Ringed 18/10/2020 at Terrington St Clement, 

SR19202 as a moulting adult.


Unfortunately the image resolution of the blog isn't sufficient to do these images justice. You really should "open" them to see the superb details.