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bishop monkton birders bishop monkton birders a blog of aidan smith s ringing activities normally these take place at sites near bishop monkton and in wharfedale tuesday 10 april 2012 swallow to malta nice to see one of our swallows controlled in malta http btoringing blogspot co uk 2012 04 return of hirundo html posted by bishop monkton birders at 19 15 no comments labels swallow tuesday 21 february 2012 barn owls our first post winter check of four barn owl boxes produced a pair at a site where they ve not bred before the female pictured was already ringed and a control gc85185 from memory fingers crossed for pulli later in the year barn owl posted by bishop monkton birders at 20 28 no comments labels barn owl sunday 19 february 2012 some days you just get lucky a bit windy here this weekend so i thought it about time i updated you on our luck last sunday once again a small group of us were out targeting the corn feeders at bishop monkton it was much warmer this weekend so four nets were opened up until 10 30 it was an average morning green woodpecker our 30 minutes of luck then started we were pleased with an unexpected kingfisher on our planned net round ringing tick for anita i then set out to try and tape lure a green woodpecker into the far net but flushed it in on the way there ringing tick for me whilst ringing these we got great views of a fox that walked out into the open right in front of the shed and then while still ringing the last net round dave somehow manages to spot a female sparrowhawk heading in the direction of our feeder nets he runs off and returns with said sparrowhawk ringing tick for natasha anita with her first kingfisher natasha with her first sparrowhawk 42 new birds and 20 retrap s yellowhammer 16 2 reed bunting 9 8 dunnock 7 chaffinch 5 blackbird 4 great tit 1 2 tree sparrow 1 wren 1 fieldfare 1 songthrush 1 green woodpecker 1 kingfisher 1 sparrowhawk 1 blue tit 1 posted by bishop monkton birders at 09 06 1 comment labels green woodpecker kingfisher sparrowhawk thursday 9 february 2012 sledgehammers after a disappointing start to the season i was determined to get out ringing at the weekend saturday morning was out due to other commitments and with the big snow event on saturday evening the chances of getting to our site sunday were not looking good freezing cold an early drive on roads you could have sledged down paid off as all the muppet drivers were still in bed on arrival it was 9 by far the coldest i ve ever ringed in so i decide just the one net would suffice today targeting yellowhammers at one of our large corn feeders i managed to pick off 14 more with 7 retraps from previous years hopefully it ll be cold but not quiet so cold next weekend 18 new birds and 15 retraps yellowhammer 14 7 dunnock 4 chaffinch 1 1 tree sparrow 1 1 great tit 1 reed bunting 1 robin 1 blackbird 1 posted by bishop monkton birders at 18 09 no comments labels yellowhammer saturday 26 november 2011 something a little different i know this is my ringing blog however with it being a tad windy for a mist net today i joined chris and a few of his students down one of our sites for a spot of mammal trapping of the 60 traps set overnight about half had success numbers were apparently very good with wood mouse bank vole field vole and common shrew all putting in an appearance unfortunately the harvest mouse remained elusive bank vole posted by bishop monkton birders at 18 19 no comments labels bank vole friday 2 september 2011 swallow controls on the final day of august things started well and it looked like we were going to get a proper ringing session in for a change there were plenty of swallows swirling around the net but after the good start numbers dropped off and the rain moved in so it was yet another early night on the plus side we did manage to control 2 swallows and as they were both off the same ring string i ll be checking them with our friends at the east dales ringing group prior to submitting the data to the bto as on occasion they ring close by 51 new birds 2 controls and 1 retrap swallow 46 2 reed bunting 3 1 reed warbler 1 sand martin 1 posted by bishop monkton birders at 08 43 no comments labels swallow tuesday 30 august 2011 july update a busy few months so hence an update for july when we re almost in september july turned out to be a funny month it s normal for us to be inundated with hundreds of sand martins but this year they just didn t seem to turn up or went early not through a lack of trying our sand martin tally for the year is less than some single evenings we had last year we hear others found this too that said while we didn t get the quantity we did get the quality reed buntings became our staple and linnet often made its way into the net too and of course there was much excitement when we ringed two green sandpiper and two yellow wagtail both new for our site and ringing ticks all round for a change over at our scarborough site dave managed a single storm petrel always a dedicated achievement to catch them in yorkshire green sandpiper yellow wagtail 706 new birds in july at our bishop monkton sites green sandpiper 2 sand martin 220 swallow 130 house martin 4 meadow pipit 5 yellow wagtail 2 pied wagtail 17 wren 8 dunnock 6 robin 5 redstart 2 blackbird 5 song thrush 1 grasshopper warbler 3 sedge warbler 49 reed warbler 8 whitethroat 46 garden warbler 1 blackcap 4 chiffchaff 14 willow warbler 37 marsh tit 3 blue tit 4 great tit 2 treecreeper 2 jay 1 jackdaw 1 tree sparrow 3 chaffinch 3 greenfinch 1 goldfinch 18 linnet 5 bullfinch 17 yellowhammer 3 reed bunting 74 posted by bishop monkton birders at 21 28 no comments labels green sandpiper yellow wagtail older posts home subscribe to posts atom followers website links bishop monkton birders treesparrows com bto bird ringing euring report a ringed bird here wharfedale calderdale wild bird ringing ringing blogs bto bird ringing demog blog ringers diary kane brides ringing blog uncle birdys moffs and 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