Recent recoveries

Birds encountered this month that had been ringed elsewhere were from France, Portugal and Alderney...

 

Sedge Warbler 9108551

Ringed  Treogat, Finistere, France 13/08/2022

Re-encountered Teifi Marshes, Ceredigion 02/05/2023 307 days 468km N Also 16th May and 16th June

Sedge Warbler 991010

Ringed Frossay, Loire Atlantique 03/08/2022

Re-encountered Teifi Marshes, Ceredigion 01/05/2023 271 days 573km NNW

Reed Warbler   AE49662

Ringed  Longis Bay, Alderney, CI 28/08/2022

Re-encountered   Teifi Marshes, Ceredigion 06/06/2023 282 days 316km NNW Also 13th June

Reed Warbler    A548975

Ringed Paul do Taipal, Coimbra, Portugal 20/09/2022

Re-encountered Teifi Marshes, Ceredigion 28/06/2023 281 days 1360km NNE

In the last blog we posted that  we had our first visit to Mwnt to catch Storm Petrels. Since then we managed a session at Strumble Head enabling several of the Group to experience nocturnal ringing. 15 were caught including one that Andrew had ringed on Skokholm last summer.

Storm Petrel 2774206

Ringed Skokholm Island 22/07/2022

Re-encountered Strumble Head, Pembs 23/06/2023 336 days, 40km NNE

Update - a visit to Mwnt during the night, three new Storm Petrels ringed on the 14th July.

Pied Flycatcher

Two North Ceredigion WTSWW woods that have had nest box schemes for several years are now being run by the TRG (Naomi Davis)  An adult female in an active box in Pant Da in the Rheidol Valley on the 1st June had been ringed age 1 in a nest box in  Pendugwm, Powys  on the 8th June 2021. 723  days 56km West.

We have only one previous Pied Flycatcher recovery, ringed in a nest box in Pengelli on 04/06/2011 and re-encountered as a breeding female in Burton Wood, Derbyshire on a year later on 15/06/2012. 267km NNE.

Sometimes details of birds ringed elsewhere take a while to come through. News this week of a Sand Martin re-encountered by Arfon 4 years ago!

Sand Martin  7283046

Ringed at Roseliere, Chenac-Saint-Seurin-d'Uzet,Charente-Maritime,France 17/07/2014
Re-encountered Dolaugwyrddon, Ceredigion 26/07/2019 1835 days 770km NNW

The Mediterranean Gull and Sandwich Tern colour-ring reading season has arrived. 

This 2nd year bird was photographed by Hannah on the 9th July at The Webley, Teifi Estuary.

R8UN was ringed as a pullus  25/06/2022 at Polder de Sebastopol; Barbâtre; Vendée; Pays de la Loire; France. Hannah's sighting was the first since ringing.

The Webley sand banks are the classic spot on the Teifi to enjoy looking through the Gulls, Terns and Waders for colour - ringed birds.

(Wendy J and Rich D)