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.	Type	Age	Capture	Date	Details
Pied Avocet
	EP32564	N	1J		24/06/2002	Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire
		C		Recaptured	25/05/2005	Schuytgraaf, Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands (508 km, ENE, 2 yrs 335 days)
		S		Sighted	29/04/2013	Makkum, Friesland, Netherlands (516 km, ENE, 10 yrs 309days)
Sedge Warbler
	D006104	N	4M		25/05/2013	Slimbridge, Gloucestershire
		C	4	Recaptured	13/08/2013	Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (129 km, SE, 80 days)
	D037938	N	3J		29/06/2013	Levington, near River Orwell, Suffolk
		C	3	Recaptured	02/08/2013	Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (217 km, SW, 34 days)
	D295240	N	3J		17/07/2013	Skokholm Island, Pembrokeshire
		C	3	Recaptured	06/08/2013	Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (297 km, ESE, 20 days)
	Y380974	N	3J		15/07/2012	Oxmoor Wood, Halton
		C	4	Recaptured	10/08/2013	Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (298 km, SSE, 1 yr 26days)
	Y544401	N	3J		25/08/2013	Thatcham Marsh, West Berkshire
		C	3	Recaptured	27/08/2013	Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (65 km, S, 2 days)
	Y640780	N	4M		14/07/2013	Saltholme, near Teesmouth, Stockton-on-Tees
		C	4	Recaptured	26/07/2013	Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (420 km, S, 12 days)
	Y818091	N	4		24/08/2012	Hollesley Heath, Suffolk
		C	4F	Recaptured	06/08/2013	Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (231 km, SW, 347 days)
	Y911301	N	3		30/07/2012	Icklesham, East Sussex
		C	4	Recaptured	28/04/2013	Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (135 km, W, 272 days)
	Y456636	N	4		05/08/2012	Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire
		C	4	Recaptured	04/05/2013	Mains of Auchenfranco, Lockfoot, Dumfries and Galloway (497 km, NNW, 272 days)
	Y717998	N	3		06/08/2013	Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire
		C	3	Recaptured	08/08/2013	Bude Marshes Nature Reserve, Cornwall (230 km, W, 2 days)
Reed Warbler
	D333221	N	3J		07/07/2013	Leighton Moss, Lancashire
		C	3	Recaptured	10/08/2013	Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (387 km, SSE, 34 days)
	V215858	N	3J		04/08/2007	Woolston Eyes, Warrington
		C	4	Recaptured	10/08/2013	Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire     (298 km, SSE, 6 yrs 6 days)
	Y534178	N	3J		23/08/2012	Cardiff Wetland Reserve, Cardiff
		C	4	Recaptured	06/08/2013	Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (152 km, ESE, 348 days)
	Y611556	N	4		05/07/2013	Corsham Lake, Wiltshire
		C	4F	Recaptured	11/07/2013	Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (94 km, SE, 6 days)
	Y634363	N	4M		05/05/2013	Wilstone Reservoir, Tring, Buckinghamshire
		C	4	Recaptured	11/07/2013	Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (116 km, SSW, 67 days)
	Y675226	N	4F		30/06/2013	Woolston Eyes, Warrington
		C	4	Recaptured	10/08/2013	Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (298 km, SSE, 41 days)
	L590229	N	3		02/08/2011	Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire
		C	4	Recaptured	16/06/2013	Chew Valley Lake, Avon, Bath and N. E. Somerset (111 km, WNW, 1 yr 318days)
		C	4	Recaptured	25/06/2013	Chew Valley Lake, Avon, Bath and N. E. Somerset (111 km, WNW, 1 yr 327days)
	T617835	N	3		26/07/2008	Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire
		C	4M	Recaptured	16/07/2013	Stortons Gravel Pits, Northampton, Northamptonshire (159 km, N, 4 yrs
	T617836	N	4		26/07/2008	Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire
		C	4M	Recaptured	25/06/2013	Stortons Gravel Pits, Northampton, Northamptonshire (159 km, N, 4 yrs 334 days)
	Y315442	N	3		23/09/2011	Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire
		R	3	Recaptured	29/09/2011	Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire (6 days)
			4M	Recaptured	22/05/2013	Haseley Manor, Arreton, Isle of Wight (17 km, S, 1 yr 241days)
	Y456091	N	4		04/08/2012	Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, Hampshire
		C	4		27/06/2013	Stanford Reservoir, Northamptonshire (178 km, N, 327 days