An evening roost visit on Thursday and and a quiet Saturday morning session in an initially light but rapidly strengthening north-westerly wind resulted in a total of 167 birds being captured. This total broke down as follows: Species Ringed Recaptured … Read More
The 2016 Welsh Ringing Course was held at Oxwich Marsh between Friday 9 and Monday 12 September 2016. There were ten course participants. These included some relatively inexperienced trainees looking to increase the number of birds and range of species … Read More
A spell of settled, overcast weather allowed us to get a few sessions in towards the end of August. Although the conditions were perfect for mist netting, being cloudy with very low wind speed, the number of migrant warblers (other … Read More
An odd morning in some ways. Warm, still and close, with early fog rapidly lifting.Very few birds were present in the marsh (26 in four hours suggested a clear out the night before / a lack of influx), but what … Read More
A virtually windless and overcast morning provided ideal conditions for ringing. We put up a total of 960 feet of net in a series of lines through the reed bed and in reed bed edge habitat along with a pipit … 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
A couple of sessions in short periods of settled weather at the start of August have proved reasonably productive. The first, on Saturday 6 August saw us deploy a total of 840 feet of net, predominantly in the reed bed … Read More
The day started very disappointingly. A moderate north-westerly wind (the worst direction for the marsh) of around 13 mph, was about 6 mph higher than forecast, and caused the nets to billow. The wind gradually died off over the course … Read More
Conditions at the marsh were near perfect for ringing for the first few hours of the day. It was warm, overcast and virtually windless. A westerly breeze then gradually picked up, and the sun came out; the catch in the … Read More
Mike and myself have had a few short sessions this month, with Owain’s assistance on a couple of occasions, but only today has it felt that things are finally starting to move around a bit. There are no feeders at … Read More
A short session on Friday 15 July was curtailed by unforecasted persistent rain after an hour (53 birds were captured in this time), while a session on 17 July was more successful. There was fog over the higher ground, a … 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