We have had a good start to the CES this year with 233 birds captured. Species New Re-trap Total Blackbird 11 11 22 Blackcap 19 10 29 Blue tit 22 3 25 Bullfinch 4 2 6 Cetti’s warbler 4 3 … Read More
On 6th May we ran a ringing session in a garden in Crynant. We had only eleven birds, however two were controls, that is birds first ringed elsewhere. A male Lesser Redpoll had been ringed in France and this was … Read More
The Constant Effort Sessions at WWT Llanelli took place between 3rd May and 28th August. Results are given below: CES 2018 at WWT Llanelli SPECIES ADULT JUVENILE AGED 2* TOTAL EXTRA NET Great spotted woodpecker 2 0 0 2 Jay … Read More
We carried out the first Constant Effort Site (CES) session on 3 May. The details are below. Among the interesting re-captures were: 2 male Blackcaps, one of which had been ringed in August 2015 and the other in June 2016, … Read More
We have completed the first 6 sessions of the Constant Effort Site (CES) at WWT Llanelli. Numbers are down a little over last year at 142 whereas we had 162 by this time in 2016. However we were pleased to … Read More
In this session we caught a total of 52 birds. Our Siskin total this time was 35 including 2 controls, that is birds which were ringed somewhere else. We shall wait to see how far they have travelled. We … Read More
Valerie and I did a session in my Crynant garden this morning as I had noticed a good number of Siskins on the feeders. We caught 49 birds of which 37 were Siskins. There are more visiting the feeders than … Read More
Low numbers again this session however of the 16 birds, 12 were juveniles and we caught 11 species. There was a tit flock and several Goldfinches flying around but we caught only 3 tits and 1 Goldfinch, the second this … Read More
The number of first year birds made up for a relatively low number of birds on our CES site at WWT Llanelli. This was Session 8 and took place on 14th July. Chiff chaff numbers are picking up but there … Read More
A mixed picture for our Re-trapping Adults for Survival (RAS) project this year. It started well with 28 Pied flycatcher nests with eggs however 3 of these nests failed to hatch any eggs. Of the remaining 25 nests, only 21 … Read More
A disappointing CES 6 despite good weather with low wind. We caught 22 birds and of these 13 were juveniles which made up for the low numbers somewhat. We had our first Cetti’s warbler of the year, an adult, however … Read More
The weather had been rather variable so it turned out that Saturday 18 June was the first day that we were able to do CES session 5. We caught 28 birds and of these 12 were juveniles. We had our … Read More
CES 4 took place on 2nd June and there were more juvenile birds than on earlier sessions. There were 3 recently fledged great tits with an attendant female and a young blue tit also with a female. In these circumstances … Read More
On what turned out to be a cold morning, the third Constant Effort Site (CES) session took place on Monday 23rd May. We caught our first juvenile Robins of the season which were all a healthy weight. The most interesting … Read More
The second Constant Effort Site(CES) session took place on Friday 13th May. The number of birds ringed was down on the first session, however, we had some interesting captures. There were two new Bullfinches bringing the year total to eight, … Read More
The Constant Effort ringing started well on 5 May with a total of 47 birds. Notably there were 10 new Blackcaps but only 2 Chiff chaffs. It was also good to have 6 new Bullfinches. Most birds showed signs of … Read More
When a CES project has been going for 14 years, the ringers have a good idea about what species will turn up in the nets. Therefore it was a surprise to have a juvenile male Green woodpecker for CES 12 … Read More
CES 11 at WWT Llanelli The weather was good for ringing on Monday – overcast and calm – however we had the smallest catch this season at 23 birds. The total for the year is … Read More