The second session of 2014 coincided with a relatively hard frost that froze the padlock to the gate of the site (which needed some warming up prior to working). The weather was otherwise pretty good for ringing, however, with a gentle south-westerly breeze … 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
A belated start to the ringing year due to a long spell of unsettled weather. However, the weather on the morning of 11 January was good, with a very light north-westerly wind and clear skies. The latter probably influenced the … Read More
In 2013 ringing was undertaken at Oxwich Marsh for the first time since 2010. It was a good year, with over 800 new birds captured, and several re-traps of birds in excess of three years of age. Highlights included a … Read More
A break in the weather provided a window to get a final visit to Oxwich Marsh completed in 2013. Very light south-westerly winds meant the nets hardly moved in the first few hours of daylight, but the increasingly open skies made … 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
Very light winds and overcast skies for the first couple of hours of the day resulted in a relatively high day-total for Oxwich. Eighty-nine birds of eleven species were processed. The catch was as follows: wren 1 (1), dunnock 3 (2), robin 2 … Read More
Very light northerly winds, meaning the nets were still, and food at the winter feeding station disappearing at a rate of knots suggested we were on for a big catch this week. We were not disappointed, in numbers at least. In … Read More
A still, overcast and cool morning seemed ideal conditions for ringing. Unfortunately no-one let the birds know. We only caught 16 birds in approximately 4 hours. However, as one of the birds was a firecrest, this went a long way to making … Read More
A cool morning with a very light north-westerly wind and broken cloud provided good conditions for ringing at the marsh. This was welcome, as it hadn’t been possible to find a day in the last couple of weeks when conditions … 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
A break in the weather, with the south-westerly winds dropping slightly and the rain holding off, allowed a relatively short session at Oxwich this morning. The wind did pick up after a couple of hours, and the catch was limited by … Read More