Chris Newberry and I returned to Margam Park this morning with the promise of fine weather and the Met Office weren’t fooling as the site was bathed in Spring sunshine and sparse cloud. The Chiffchaffs continued to sing in the … Read More
Chris Newberry and I spent some time this morning judiciously pruning back the brambles alongside the railway track at our ringing site in Margam Park. This will allow us to leave the nets in place rather than remove them before … Read More
With our noble leader taking ‘Paternity Leave’ from ringing at Oxwich (congratulations to Owain and Rhian on the birth of their daughter) it was left to the ‘Grey Brigade’ of Heather, Keith and myself to tend the nets aided by … Read More
Today was our first Winter visit to the ringing area at Margam Park. With the seasonal train service around the Park not in use, we were able to leave our nets along the track in situ for the whole session. … Read More
This morning I joined Chris Newberry at the Kenfig Pool site for our first visit of the New Year. The ‘Met Office’ forecast an Amber Warning for Ice and they weren’t wrong – with the surface of both flooded rides frozen. … Read More
This morning I accepted an invitation from Chris Newberry to join him for a ringing session at Kenfig. We set up 180′ of net in what is the (recently cleared) CES ride and a further 140′ in a newly created … Read More
Decided to bring the net and lamp out from Summer storage and join Charlie Sargent at our Carmarthenshire farm site to see if there were any Woodcock waiting in the fields to be dazzled by our presence. The early wind … Read More
Heather, Charlie and I joined Chris at Ty’n-y-Caeau near Monknash in the Vale of Glamorgan. We supplemented our regular seventy-eight metres of nets along the hedgerow with a further thirty-nine metres in the corner of the field. There were large … Read More
Heather Coats and I joined Chris Newberry at Kenfig hoping for more success on CES 11 than we had at WWT’s CES the previous Monday. The weather was set fair with the promise of sunshine later in the morning. Once … Read More
Chris Newberry, Heather Coats and I once again met for a CES session at Kenfig. We supplemented our six 18 metre nets in the pool ride with thirty metres of mist nets in the scrub. The birds weren’t as obliging … Read More
Heather, Chris and I made the best of the good weather to undertake the ninth CES – Constant Effort Site – session of 2013 at the Kenfig National Nature Reserve. We decided to supplement the 108 metres of mist-netting in … Read More
Heather Coats and I joined forces for this morning’s CES session at the WWT Llanelli‘s ‘Millennium Wetlands’ site. We were hoping that the 2013 session would provide more than the four birds we amassed the previous year. Thankfully we surpassed … Read More
Heather, Charlie, Chris, Aaron and I returned to Margam Country Park armed with a few extra nets and a bundle of home-grown bamboos courtesy of the Park’s Alison Lloyd. … Read More
The first train of the day Heather, Chris, Alison and I ventured into Margam Country Park for some warm Saturday morning ringing. Three hours into the session we had to take down two of our nets from the rail track … Read More
Heather Coats, Chris Newberry and I ventured into Kenfig Pool for CES 8 this morning. The high water levels and cool conditions of 2012 being substituted for thick, glutinous mud and unforgiving heat in 2013. Today’s total of 17 birds … Read More
Heather Coats and I were joined this morning by Alison Lloyd of Margam Country Park. This was the first time for us to mist net in this particular area of the Park known as ‘Nursery Dywyll’ on the OS Map. … Read More
On a rather warm morning Heather and I were joined by Hugh and Wendy for CES 7. The total for the day reached fourteen with the large majority being juveniles including SONTH, CHIFF, ROBIN, BLACA, BLUTI, DUNNO, WREN and LOTTI. … Read More
This morning Chris Newberry joined forces with Heather Coats to undertake CES 7 at Kenfig NNR. The visit continued the run of poor bird numbers – as with every session this year the numbers are down on a poor year … Read More