The Welsh Ringing Course was held over the long weekend of 8-11 September 2023. The 2023 course (again) focussed on permit assessments, with half of the attendees looking to be assessed for upgrades and the remainder attending for more experience … Read More
It has been a typically slow start to the year at Oxwich. There were no ringing sessions in January (when we focussed on High Pennard), but a spell of settled weather in February has allowed us to get going. Totals … Read More
Overview of Ringing in 2022 This article provides a summary of our activities in 2022. During the year we continued to contribute critical population data to the British Trust for Ornithology’s (BTO) flagship Constant Effort Site (CES) and Recapture of … Read More
The long weekend of 9-12 September 2022 saw the return of the Welsh Ringing Course. We had had an enforced break in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, while in 2021 the lack of available accommodation and continued Covid-related restrictions … Read More
A completely inaccurate weather forecast suggested it would be fairly windy, but rain was very unlikely. After a bit of deliberation we decided to give it a go at Oxwich. It was lucky that we did, as despite the regular … Read More
A few relatively calm, warm weekend mornings after a long period of unsettled weather have allowed us an insight into local productivity at Oxwich. The combined results of sessions on 3, 9 and 15 July are as follows: Of the … Read More
Our first session in a while due to a run of poor weekend weather. A light north-westerly wind increased over the morning, with nets in the open marsh starting to come down by 07:30. After a few good early rounds … Read More
Gower Ringing Group is conducting a Retrapping Adults for Survival (RAS) project on Dippers in Glamorgan. Birds are monitored during the breeding season (between March and June) along several rivers and their tributaries in Bridgend, Neath-Port Talbot and Rhondda Cynon … Read More
Mid-April to mid-May is typically a quiet period at Oxwich, but one of change, as the winter visitors depart and the summer migrants start to come through. However, with locally-breeding resident species typically on territory, it can be a very … Read More
Friday 22 to Monday 25 April saw the first of four scheduled Gower Ringing Group trips to Skokholm Island, Pembrokeshire. The Gower team comprised Sarah Davies, Amy Schwartz, Richard Dann and Owain Gabb, who joined a number of ringers from … Read More
Ringing in the months of January and February is typically heavily weather-affected in coastal areas of South Wales. However, the ringing group has grown considerably in recent years, and as a result of people developing their own projects, the range … Read More
Introduction This is an account of the second year of ringing activity at Richard Dann’s garden, The Watch House, situated on Pennard Cliffs on the south coast of the Gower Peninsula. The site is very exposed to the wind despite, … Read More