The first six months of the year at Oxwich followed a familiar pattern: a weather affected first quarter; a quiet spring with recaptured birds much in evidence; and a steady increase in catches in June as juvenile birds of various … Read More
Overview of Ringing in 2025 This article provides a summary of our activities in 2025. During the year we continued to contribute important population data to the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) Constant Effort Site (CES) and Recapture of Adults … Read More
Gower Ringing Group currently has some capacity to take on new ringing trainees. If you are based in Swansea, Gower, Neath Port Talbot or the eastern part of Carmarthenshire, and would like to train as a ringer, we would be … Read More
The Welsh Ringing Course was held over the long weekend of 29 August to 1 September 2025. The course was first hosted by Gower Ringing Group in 2015, and this was the ninth running of it. The 2025 course (again) … Read More
2025 to date has gone by very quickly. Combined ringing totals from across all of our sites are presented in Table 1 below. Table 1: Ringing Totals (1 Jan – 19 July 2025 inclusive) Species Name Ringed Recaptured Ring Read … Read More
Overview of Ringing in 2024 This article provides a summary of our activities in 2024. During the year we continued to contribute important population data to the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) Constant Effort Site (CES) and Recapture of Adults … Read More
The period between mid September and the end of October 2024 has been a good one at Oxwich, with a wide range of species captured. Totals are presented in the table below. Species Name Ringed Recaptured Total Blackbird 7 … Read More
The Welsh Ringing Course was held over the long weekend of 6-9 September 2024. The course was first hosted by Gower Ringing Group in 2015, and this was the eighth running of it. We had one year of enforced complete … Read More
We have reached and passed the mid point of the year without being troubled by summer arriving. This post provides a summary of the first six months of 2024, covering ringing totals up to and including 8 July. There have … Read More
Overview of Ringing in 2023 This article provides a summary of our activities in 2023. 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 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