Nest Record Totals & A Visit From An Old Friend!

Over the last two weeks I’ve been frantically rushing through reed-beds, up & down ladders to monitor boxes & ringing the last remaining pulli for what will be the end of my 2011 pulli season! It’s that time of the year again when I pack everything away & head on up north for my annual seabird, wader & Whooper swan fix in Iceland!

So I thought now would be an appropriate time to update the blog on this years Nest Record Totals.

Species	Number of NRC’s
Barn Owl	2
Blackbird	11
Blackcap	2
Blue Tit	36
Canada Goose	2
Chaffinch	5
Collared Dove	5
Coot	8
Dunnock	1
Goldfinch	1
Grasshopper Warbler	1
Greenfinch	2
Great Tit	24
Kestrel	2
Lapwing	4
Lesser Whitethroat	1
Long Eared Owl	1
Long-tailed Tit	1
Mallard	1
Moorhen	5
Mute Swan	2
Nuthatch	1
Reed Bunting	1
Reed Warbler	62
Robin	6
Song Thrush	2
Sparrowhawk	1
Spotted Flycatcher	1
Stock Dove	3
Swallow	14
Tawny Owl	2
Treecreeper	2
Tree Sparrow	68
Whitethroat	2
Wood Pigeon	4
Wren	3
36 Species	288

All that was left to do yesterday was to ring a brood of Long Eared Owl, check the status of a Collared Dove nest, update IPMR & submit this years data to the BTO.

Surprisingly all five chicks were big enough for ringing, with the smallest on the far right just being big enough to hold the G ring! Our mate Ciaran on the far left who’s home from the Farne Islands for his brothers graduation (Congratulations Cal!) managed to spare us a few hours (the whole day actually!) for a good catch up! Really nice to see him home back in the great NW!

Cheers to Zac for the use of his camera/photos!

So that’s it now for the next 6 weeks! I shall be out in Iceland for four of them, before flying back home (for two days!) and flying onto Russia for two weeks! So I shall blog about my trips on my return.

So long………