Monday 21 October 2013

More Fruits of Our Labour - Bird Ringing at Titchfield Haven

With no ringing activity to report, due to recent bad weather I thought that it was time to publish some more controls and recoveries of birds captured at the Haven. So far we have had 36 birds, either controlled at the Haven or recovered elsewhere, but as is often the case we are yet to hear back from the BTO for many of them. The species to date include sedge warbler, reed warbler, blackcap, chiffchaff and one avocet. 

The pied avocet story is an amazing one, on 24th June 2002 the first pair of avocets bred at Hook with Warsash, Local Nature Reserve. They had two chicks but an out of control dog entered the reserve and disturbed the birds which resulted in them walking along the foreshore with the parents flying overhead trying to protect them. The commotion was such that it alerted the wardens at the Haven, who went out and rescued the birds and released them onto the scrapes at the Haven, with the adults following. However before releasing them, the chicks were ringed. In May 2005, one of the chicks was recaptured in The Netherlands and colour-ringed. In April of this year, the same bird was re-sighted, still in The Netherlands nearly 11 years since ringing! A fantastic success story that could had easily ended in disaster had the dog got hold of them.

The other records are not as spectacular but nonetheless they still make interesting reading, we for us anyway!
Species Ring No.TypeAge  Capture
Date
Details
Pied Avocet
EP32564     N1J24/06/2002 Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire
CRecaptured25/05/2005Schuytgraaf, Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands (508 km, ENE, 2 yrs 335 days)
SSighted29/04/2013Makkum, Friesland, Netherlands (516 km, ENE, 10 yrs 309days)
Sedge Warbler
D006104     N4M25/05/2013Slimbridge, Gloucestershire
C4Recaptured13/08/2013Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (129 km, SE, 80 days)
D037938     N3J29/06/2013Levington, near River Orwell, Suffolk
C3Recaptured02/08/2013Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (217 km, SW, 34 days)
D295240     N3J17/07/2013Skokholm Island, Pembrokeshire
C3Recaptured06/08/2013Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (297 km, ESE, 20 days)
Y380974     N3J15/07/2012Oxmoor Wood, Halton
C4Recaptured10/08/2013Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (298 km, SSE, 1 yr 26days)
Y544401     N3J25/08/2013Thatcham Marsh, West Berkshire
C3Recaptured27/08/2013Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (65 km, S, 2 days)
Y640780     N4M14/07/2013Saltholme, near Teesmouth, Stockton-on-Tees
C4Recaptured26/07/2013Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (420 km, S, 12 days)
Y818091     N424/08/2012Hollesley Heath, Suffolk
C4FRecaptured06/08/2013Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (231 km, SW, 347 days)
Y911301     N330/07/2012Icklesham, East Sussex
C4Recaptured28/04/2013Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (135 km, W, 272 days)
Y456636N405/08/2012Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire
C4Recaptured04/05/2013Mains of Auchenfranco, Lockfoot, Dumfries and Galloway (497 km, NNW, 272 days)
Y717998     N306/08/2013Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire
C3Recaptured08/08/2013Bude Marshes Nature Reserve, Cornwall (230 km, W, 2 days)
Reed Warbler
D333221     N3J07/07/2013Leighton Moss, Lancashire
C3Recaptured10/08/2013Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (387 km, SSE, 34 days)
V215858     N3J04/08/2007Woolston Eyes, Warrington
C4Recaptured10/08/2013Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire     (298 km, SSE, 6 yrs 6 days)
Y534178     N3J23/08/2012Cardiff Wetland Reserve, Cardiff
C4Recaptured06/08/2013Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (152 km, ESE, 348 days)
Y611556     N405/07/2013Corsham Lake, Wiltshire
C4FRecaptured11/07/2013Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (94 km, SE, 6 days)
Y634363     N4M05/05/2013Wilstone Reservoir, Tring, Buckinghamshire
C4Recaptured11/07/2013Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (116 km, SSW, 67 days)
Y675226     N4F30/06/2013Woolston Eyes, Warrington
C4Recaptured10/08/2013Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (298 km, SSE, 41 days)
L590229     N302/08/2011Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire
C4Recaptured16/06/2013Chew Valley Lake, Avon, Bath and N. E. Somerset (111 km, WNW, 1 yr 318days)
C4Recaptured25/06/2013Chew Valley Lake, Avon, Bath and N. E. Somerset (111 km, WNW, 1 yr 327days)
T617835     N326/07/2008Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire
C4MRecaptured16/07/2013Stortons Gravel Pits, Northampton, Northamptonshire (159 km, N, 4 yrs 
T617836     N426/07/2008Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire
C4MRecaptured25/06/2013Stortons Gravel Pits, Northampton, Northamptonshire (159 km, N, 4 yrs 334 days)
Y315442     N323/09/2011Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire
R3Recaptured29/09/2011Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (6 days)

4MRecaptured22/05/2013Haseley Manor, Arreton, Isle of Wight (17 km, S, 1 yr 241days)
Y456091     N404/08/2012Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire
C427/06/2013Stanford Reservoir, Northamptonshire (178 km, N, 327 days







1 comment:

  1. Hi Trevor - I'm hoping to get in touch with you about possibly obtaining permission to use one of your photos in a NZ environmental magazine for kids. I couldn't find a contact email for you. Is there any chance you could email me - johanna dot knox at gmail.com? Thanks!!

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