Bird Ringing

I photographed this Dunnock on our front lawn and then noticed it was one of our ringed birds. You can make out the ring on the right leg.

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21/03/14- today I got the nets open for a short while and caught 11 birds.
29/12/13– A short ringing session this morning produced a good number of birds, 25 in 2 hours. It started with a few Blackbirds, Robins and Dunnock. Then the Blue Tits started to appear. I managed to retrap a Great Tit, a Robin and a Blue Tit all of which were ringed in the garden in 2011.
New birds ringed and retraps in brackets.
Blackbird 2 (1)
Blue Tit 3 (8)
Robin (3)
Dunnock 4 (1)
Chaffinch 1
Great Tit 1 (1)
07/11/13—– At last I have managed to get some mist nets open in the garden. I have caught 62 birds in total.
The highlights were Pied Wagtail and Goldcrest.
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This is the Pied wagtail that I caught.
A full list of birds ringed and re trapped ( birds caught and ringed previously) are shown below.
Blue Tit  22 (9)
House Sparrow  11
Chaffinch  3
Great Tit  3
Dunnock  2
Goldfinch  2
Greenfinch  2
Long Tail Tit  2
Blackbird  1 (1)
Goldcrest  1
Pied wagtail  1
Robin  1
Wren  1

Below is a table of birds ringed in my garden during 2012.

Place Totals Summary

 

Retraps/

Full grown        Pulli       Recoveries          Total

2012

Eversholt

Woodpigeon                                                   1                 0                 1                 2

Great Spotted Woodpecker                                4                 0                 1                 5

Wren                                                            3                 0                 1                 4

Dunnock                                                        3                 0                 4                 7

Robin                                                            8                 4                 3                15

Blackbird                                                      6                 0                 3                 9

Whitethroat                                                   2                 0                 0                 2

Blackcap                                                       3                 0                 0                 3

Goldcrest                                                       1                 0                 0                 1

Long-tailed Tit                                                2                 0                 2                 4

Coal Tit                                                         6                 0                 1                 7

Blue Tit                                                     107               14                17              138

Great Tit                                                      10                 0                 4                14

Nuthatch                                                        2                 0                 0                 2

Magpie                                                          1                 0                 0                 1

House Sparrow                                               3                 0                 0                 3

Chaffinch                                                       5                 0                 1                 6

Greenfinch                                                   17                 0                 0                17

Goldfinch                                                       9                 0                 1                10

Siskin                                                           1                 0                 0                 1

Linnet                                                           3                 0                 0                 3

Total for:    Eversholt                                             197               18                39              254

Annual Total:                  197               18                39              254

Report Data Selection:    Year: 2012; Place: Eversholt; County/Region: Bedfordshire;

NB. Pulli are young birds ringed in the nest.

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