Pipits...worth the 7 year wait...!

We have been ringing Pipits on the Teifi estuary since since September 2010...
Totals to date...Rock 86, Meadow 34 and today we added Water Pipit.
As time passes the estuary is changing and their old feeding haunt of the Patch spit is disappearing.This morning Wendy, Chris and I went to the area currently favoured by the Pipits

This Water Pipit was feeding with the Rock and Meadow Pipits and was one of 8 Pipits caught along with 2 Meadow and 5 Rock Pipits.

We have only had same winter recaptures of Rock Pipits and we rarely see ringed birds during the breeding season. A great surprise this morning with recapture of 2657817..

Ringed 6th October 2010, one of 11 Rock Pipits ringed that morning by Wendy and I on only our 3rd ever session trapping Pipits.

We have no recaptures of Meadow Pipits from the Teifi. We have a recapture of 349 days at one of our upland Woodcock wintering study sites near Boncath, and a 3yr 350 day recapture at Mwnt, one of our migration monitoring sites.

Rich. D
(Rock Pipit photo Wendy)