More details have now come through about the stunning male blackbird that was controlled at Ripon Parks during the Autumn migration. The bird was ringed at Kvassas, Sokndal, Rogaland, Norway on 6 December 2022 and controlled at Ripon Parks on 11 November 2023 having travelled some 668km (415 miles) in a SW direction. This is the first Norwegian bird controlled by EDRG.

Click on the link to see the direct route the bird took

https://www.plotaroute.com/route/2597064

A busy morning for the group members at High Batts on 19 February with over 150 birds processed on a crisp early spring day, including 43 Siskin, 24 Lesser Redpoll, 8 Tree Sparrow, 5 Reed Bunting, 5 Yellowhammer and a House Sparrow and Nuthatch.

For more information about the first sighting of this bird since it was ringed in July 2023, click in the following link

Avocet ringing

For more information about BHG 22PA, click on the following link

BHG Recoveries

For more information on Redpoll BCC9427 ringed at Ripon Ponds on 22 October 2023, click on the following link

Lesser Redpoll Recoveries

Our 2nd day of ringing in 2024 – the flock of Brambling feeding on sunflower heads was mobile, but we successfully ringed 9, one of which was this stunning adult male. The Greenfinch they initially flocked with have now mostly moved on, with 503 ringed

Coot FDJ was in Roundhay Park, Leeds, on 5 January 2024 having originally been ringed at Nosterfield in 2017.
It was spotted at Old Moor, Mexborough in 2016 and is now swimming with the swans at Roundhay. It travelled 42km (26 miles) in a S direction from its original ringing site and 37km (24 miles) N from Old Moor. 

For more about Coot FDJ and other Coots colour ringed at Nosterfield, please click on the following link.

Colour ringed Coot

After months of trying, putting out grain and disappointment, we have finally colour ringed our 1st Moorhen for the national Moorhen study at Nosterfield LNR. Look out for A04!

Our autumn site continues to produce – continuing passage of Lesser Redpoll and over 470 Greenfinch ringed The star bird this weekend was without doubt the STAVANGER-ringed Blackbird! Stunning adult male, with a wing of 141mm – where in Norway was it ringed? More details to follow.

Coot DBV ringed five years ago at Nosterfield was sighted, for the first time since ringing at Hardwick Park on 24 December 2022 travelling 49km (30 miles) in a N direction.

Reed Warbler Y411995, ringed at Weather Hills Pond on 15 July 2014 by a previous BTO ringer was retrapped at the site some 8 years later on 4 August 2022! This bird has shown great site fidelity, possibly nesting there over the previous 7 years. How many miles will it have travelled in the meantime?

Ringed on Fylingdales Moor from a brood of 7 on 29 May 2019, this pulli was controlled as an adult male at Ripon Parks on 7 August 2022 having travelled 65km (40 miles) in an ENE direction, but much further in total given that the bird would have migrated over the 3 year period.

Song Thrush RY73163 ringed at Ripon Parks as a juvenile on 12 October 2020 was controlled at Nanjizal, Lands End, Cornwall on 29 April 2023 some 538km (334 miles) in a SSW direction from, Ripon Parks. This one is fascinating as it opens the debate as to whether the bird was returning to its breeding grounds via the UK, from wintering further south in Europe.

For a direct flight path of the SonTh please click on the following link

https://www.plotaroute.com/route/2488644

Male Mute Swan W24885 originally ringed at North Duffield Nature Reserve on 8 August 2012 was seen at Hay-a-Park, Knaresborough on 13 February 2021 some 39km (24 miles) WNW of its original ringing site. Identification was though the colour rings on the swan, left below the knee RW (519), right below the knee M.

Curlew FJ10551 ringed at Llanrhystud, near Aberystwyth by the Mid Wales RG on 24 February 2016 and colour ringed, right below the knee M left above the knee O, right below the knee NW (A9) was spotted at Nosterfield NR on 15 February 2023 274km (170 miles) NE of its original ringing site.