tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57472922853456601232024-02-19T10:25:43.490+00:00An Orkney RingerOrkney is an excellent place for birds and as an island group sat where the Atlantic Ocean meets the North Sea you never know what might turn up. Now which way is the wind coming from ...Mallimakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970048332832479292noreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747292285345660123.post-6303172805067937322016-09-05T11:56:00.000+01:002016-09-05T14:53:06.777+01:0026 Jun 16 – A trip to the Pentland Skerries<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Following on from our recent trip to Swona today saw Colin,
Brian and myself with some visiting RSPB staff heading for the Pentland Skerries.
Again we were looking to retrieve and deploy geolocators. This time we only
managed to retrieve four geolocators, all from Razorbills. We managed to deploy
13 geolocators, with three on Razorbills and ten on Puffins.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On the ringing side there were Herring Gull - 24 chicks, Lesser
Black-backed Gull - three chicks, Puffin - 15 adult and 19 chicks, Razorbill –
seven adult and 6 chicks, plus 5 retraps and Shag – one adult.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was good to see that the Puffins were having a better
year than last and a number of new burrows were found.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
The number of shags about this year was quite disappointing
however we did see a Shag with a Blue colour ring. This isn’t one of the birds
from our colour ringing efforts so it will be interesting to see if we can find
out anything about this bird.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When we got back Colin gave me some good news which now requires a bit of paperwork sorting out. More details to follow soon.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>Mallimakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970048332832479292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747292285345660123.post-77825613777447066402016-09-05T08:37:00.000+01:002016-09-05T08:37:14.974+01:0018 Jun16 – Seabirds on Swona<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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and my first ringing session of the year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The team consisted of Colin, Brian, Stan, Alison and me and
the aim was to retrieve and deploy geolocators as well as ringing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We were able to retrieve five geolocators from Razorbills
who along with another 10 adults were fitted with new geolocators. The aim is
to fit the geolocators and retrieve them a year later however the retrieved
geolocators on this trip all came from birds that had them fitted two years ago
so it will be interesting to see if the data can be retrieved and what it shows
us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In terms of ringing, we ringed Great Black-backed Gull - three
chicks, Razorbill - three adults and 15 chicks plus an additional 12 retraps,
Puffin – three adults and Shag two adults and 14 chicks. The Shags were also
colour ringed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Eight pairs of Great Skuas (Bonxies) were seen but there was
no sign of any breeding terns this year.</span></span></div>
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<span>We will hopefully pay another visit to Swona
later in the summer to do the annual ringing of Fulmar chicks.</span></span></span>Mallimakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970048332832479292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747292285345660123.post-41098684557243376972016-08-15T13:55:00.003+01:002016-08-15T13:55:41.726+01:002015 Summary
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Unfortunately,
other activities in 2015 took up my time so despite good intentions I didn’t
get around to posting on my blog. 2015 was a fairly quiet year from a ringing
perspective, mainly because the weather was poor, so I have decided to
summarise the whole year’s activities in one post as I wanted to bring the blog
up to date. So here goes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
start of January saw a trip out with Colin and Stan to a site we usually use
for Storm Petrels but on this occasion we were going to target Rock Pipits
using spring traps. It was fairly quiet and we only managed to catch two.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">At
the end of the month I had a whoosh netting session with Colin in his garden.
On this occasion we caught and ringed eight Greenfinch, three House Sparrow and
two Starlings. We also re-trapped a Greenfinch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">My
next ringing didn’t come until May when I met up with Andy to ring at a couple
of Blackbird nests, with three chicks in each nest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Staying
with chicks on the nest June saw a trip out with Jim to ring at two Hen harrier
nests with two chicks on one nest and three on the other. Attention then
switched to seabirds and a trip to the Pentland Skerries. Here I ringed five
Puffin and five Razorbill adults and one herring Gull and four Razorbill
chicks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">July
was back to raptor chick ringing and a trip out with Brian saw me ring nine Hen
Harrier chicks and two Kestrel chicks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">August
and September saw me back at the Swallow roost with six sessions in total. The
usual species were caught and ringed: Reed Bunting, Reed Warbler, Sand Martin,
Sedge Warbler, Starling, Swallow and Wren. A surprise catch was a Redpoll,
which I think was a first for this site.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Towards
the back end of the summer I visited my parents down in Sussex and was able to
arrange a trip out with a local ringer called Val. We went to a site near to
Cissbury Ring, somewhere as a young lad I had spent a lot of time. We met at
day break when the weather was good but there was rain forecast for later in
the morning so we weren’t sure how long we would have. We set the nets up and
it wasn’t long before we started catching birds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We
caught a number of species that I have ringed in the past including 38
Blackcap, 3 Blue Tit, 7 Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest and 1 Robin. I also got to ring
a couple of new species in the way of 1 Bullfinch and 2 Whitethroat. In
addition, we re-trapped: a Blue Tit, a Bullfinch, a Dunnock, Robin and a Whitethroat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">It
was a great site and I hope to go back and ring with Val again sometime.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">The poor weather
meant that we didn’t get out to any of the gull colonies or do any Storm Petrel
ringing and due to other commitments I missed the annual Fulmar chick ringing
session on Swona.</span>Mallimakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970048332832479292noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747292285345660123.post-59621798871083785562014-11-02T22:17:00.003+00:002016-08-15T13:37:03.137+01:00St Olaf's Wood<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There's been a good flow of thrush species arriving here in Orkney over the last few days and there were certainly 40-50 Redwings in the garden and the field surrounding the house this morning along with three Fieldfares. Other local birders were reporting several hundred in the fields around them so when Colin rang late morning to say he was thinking of going to St Olaf's Wood on South Ronaldsay to see if there was chance of catching some coming into roost I had to do a quick reschedule with some expected visitors so that I would be able to join him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On arrival on site there were certainly some good numbers of both Redwings and Fieldfares in the area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We set five nets in total and by the time we had the first two setup we were already getting Goldcrests.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was a steady afternoon's ringing and after about four and a half hours we had caught and ringed 37 birds and had two retraps of ten species.</span><br />
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Blackbird (including one retrap), one
Chiffchaff, two Fieldfare, 12 Golcrests (including one retrap), nine Redwing, four Robin, one Song Thrush, three Wren, one Yellow-browed and the highlight of the day one adult male
Sparrowhawk. The latter being my second mist net extraction of that species.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As dusk apporached rather than flooding in to roost the Redwings and Fieldfares seemed to disappear although we did get two or three Redwing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All in all a good ringing session with a good mixture of species to help towards obtaining my permit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thanks to my friends for rescheduling at short notice.</span>Mallimakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970048332832479292noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747292285345660123.post-31067655736336955862014-10-21T22:12:00.000+01:002014-10-21T22:12:31.411+01:00Berstane House<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On Saturday, 18 Oct 14, Colin, Stan and myself went to do some ringing in the grounds of Berstane House on the outskirts of Kirkwall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This was a new ringing site for me and Stan but somewhere Colin used to ring 30 odd years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We set four nets, three in the woods and one on the lawn in front of the house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It was pretty quiet for the first hour and a half but just before I had to leave a net round produced a Goldcrest and two Wrens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Further net rounds after I left produced two Blackbirds, a Goldcrest, five House Sparrows, two Robins and another Wren.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So not a bad first visit and hopefully there will be more visits over the coming months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Thanks to Nancy for letting us do some ringing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span>Mallimakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970048332832479292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747292285345660123.post-45927347932641352322014-10-21T22:03:00.004+01:002014-10-21T22:03:43.889+01:00Oct Three 2014<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Update coming soon</span>Mallimakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970048332832479292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747292285345660123.post-48671284492612205722014-10-21T22:03:00.002+01:002014-10-21T22:03:26.068+01:00Oct Two 2014<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Update coming soon</span>Mallimakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970048332832479292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747292285345660123.post-50394081418012761132014-10-21T22:02:00.006+01:002014-10-21T22:02:59.469+01:00Oct 2014Mallimakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970048332832479292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747292285345660123.post-31700039602917297382014-10-21T22:02:00.004+01:002014-10-21T22:02:21.079+01:00Sep 2014<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Update coming soon</span>Mallimakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970048332832479292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747292285345660123.post-9611798302354859712014-10-21T22:02:00.001+01:002014-10-21T22:02:07.097+01:00Aug 2014<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Update coming soon</span>Mallimakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970048332832479292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747292285345660123.post-42499199438607220792014-10-21T22:01:00.008+01:002014-10-21T22:01:55.365+01:00Jul 2014<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Update coming soon</span>Mallimakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970048332832479292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747292285345660123.post-1931020958004467972014-10-21T22:01:00.005+01:002014-10-21T22:01:33.429+01:00Jun 2014<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Update coming soon</span>Mallimakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970048332832479292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747292285345660123.post-52465844604665155282014-10-21T22:01:00.003+01:002014-10-21T22:01:17.599+01:00May 2014<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Update coming soon</span>Mallimakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970048332832479292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747292285345660123.post-3480048529039825772014-10-21T22:01:00.001+01:002014-10-21T22:01:03.663+01:00Apr 2014<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Update coming soon</span>Mallimakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970048332832479292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747292285345660123.post-24338634619434355332014-10-21T22:00:00.006+01:002014-10-21T22:00:49.748+01:00Mar 2014<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Update coming soon</span>Mallimakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970048332832479292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747292285345660123.post-83051162640333640332014-10-21T22:00:00.004+01:002014-10-21T22:00:33.629+01:00Feb 2014<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Update coming soon</span>Mallimakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970048332832479292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747292285345660123.post-7957321053122708662014-10-21T22:00:00.002+01:002014-10-21T22:00:16.598+01:00Jan 2014<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Update coming soon</span>Mallimakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970048332832479292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747292285345660123.post-89823112191790998912013-10-20T22:45:00.001+01:002013-10-20T22:45:07.908+01:00If you go down to the woods today ...<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yesterday was wet and windy as we were hit by an Easterly storm which made it a stay indoors day. This morning started off wet but with lighter winds. Thoughts started to turn to what birds on their migration may have been blown in and grounded by yesterday's bad weather.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As the rains eased I looked out from the house around the garden and the surrounding fields. There was definitely an increase in the number of Blackbirds about and also quite a few Redwing. Then I spotted a movement in the corner of the garden, it was a male Blackcap. Then another and another. Within a few minutes I had counted 5 males and a female. I suspect that there were more but with them flying across the garden and back and disappearing into the undergrowth it was difficult to keep track of how many birds there were.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Word on the local birding grapevine was that there were loads of Blackcaps all over the main island along with good numbers of various thrush species.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had already received a text message from Andy last night to say that if the rain and winds eased today he would be opening the nets at his place and this morning I got a text from Colin to say that he would be going out too if the rain stopped. About an hour later Colin rang to say that he would be going to the area of woodland above Andy's place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Colin picked me up on his way through and we arrived at the site around 1pm. As we set the nets up we could hear Robins calling and there were Blackcaps and Chiffchaff flying along the paths in front of us. There were also a number of Blackbirds feeding in the Rosa Rogosa bushes around the perimeter of the site.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We had a steady stream of birds throughout the afternoon with a total of 45 birds caught in total consisting of 42 new birds and 3 retrapped birds which had been ringed by Andy on a previous occasion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Species caught were (retraps in brackets): Blackcap 21, Blackbird 6 (1), Wren 5, Chiffchaff 2 (1), Goldcrest 2, Mealy Redpoll 2, Robin 2 and Redwing 1.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They say that if you go down to the woods today you may be in for a surprise and we certainly were as the star bird of the afternoon and a new ringing species for me was a female Crossbill.</span><br />
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Mallimakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970048332832479292noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747292285345660123.post-26631950111720898222013-10-18T23:02:00.000+01:002013-10-21T14:46:27.693+01:00NRBO Autumn Visit - Day 4 (16 Oct)<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Today was the last day of our visit and as per the past two days started with an early morning session up at Holland House.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The wind started off light but soon picked up and there was a noticeable chill in the air. There was also the occasional short burst of light rain. This was reflected in a smaller number of birds about than the previous day. The walk up to Holland House had been much quieter with no Redwings being heard, only the occasional Lapwing and Golden Plover.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Up until breakfast time the main species being caught was Redwing, with a single Robin, a Blackbird and a retrapped Blackcap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As is often the case something good turns up at the Obs just as you are about to start walking back there for breakfast. Today was one of those days and thankfully Mark let me borrow one of the Obs bikes so I didn't have to run. Just as I started to pedal off I heard him saying something about no brakes!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I arrived back at the Obs in record time to get my first close up look at a bird that you would usually see only very briefly as it skulks through a gap in the reeds on the edge of a loch. The bird I'm referring to is a Water Rail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After breakfast Claire and I walked from the Obs around the coast to the hide at Gretchen Loch. On the way we saw a number of Goldcrests working their way through the stone dykes. Down on the shore there were a couple of Redshank, eight Oystercatchers, four Turnstones and 26 Shag and out on the sea were at least 20 Eider ducks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the hide we could see Teal and Wigeon on the wildfowl front and waders in the form of two Redshank, 15 Snipe roosting in amongst the rocks on the water's edge closest to the hide and around 200 Golden Plover over on the water's edge furthest from the hide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was back to the Obs for lunch followed by a short walk around the Obs before the rain arrived. The Blyth's Reed Warbler was still lurking around the small area of reed bed where it had been caught the previous day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The end of our stay had arrived and it was time to depart for the airfield and the short flight back to Kirkwall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A big thank you to all the Obs staff for making us welcome once again and for allowing me to join them on the ringing sessions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the birds I would like to have seen was the Bluethroat which had been around the previous week but hadn't been seen by anybody during our stay. It was no surprise to hear the following day that it had been seen again in the same area as it was in last week!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For those that have been following my posts during the week I have now added photos to the posts for Day 1 to 3 and updated the text.</span><br />
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<br />Mallimakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970048332832479292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747292285345660123.post-70887048735544100092013-10-15T22:07:00.001+01:002013-10-21T14:48:00.463+01:00NRBO Autumn Visit - Day 3 (15 Oct)<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Today was as forecast a day of very light winds and resulted in a long day up at Holland House, with the mist nets opened from 7am until 6.30pm. The day was spent with Alison, Kevin and Gavin and Stan joined us for the first couple of hours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After breakfast Claire
came up to Holland House for the morning to watch the ringing and see
some of the birds close up, including the Redpoll which was a new bird
for her.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In total over 200 birds of 17 species were caught. These were Blackbird, Blackcap, Brambling, Chiffchaff, Dunnock, Fieldfare, Goldcrest, Great Spotted Woodpecker, House Sparrow, Linnet, Mistle Thrush, Redwing, Redpoll, Robin, Song Thrush, Wren and the Bullfinch that has been around the area for the last couple of days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I managed to ring 40 birds across all of these species except for the Bullfinch (I was at breakfast when it was caught),the Robin, Wren and the woodpecker as these were retraps. I procesed 13 retrapped birds from seven different species.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Fieldfare and Mistle Thrush were new ringing species for me, the latter being only the eigth record for North Ronaldsay.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mistle Thrush</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One of the Redwings was wearing a Danish ring so it will be interesting to hear a bit more about that bird in due course.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Just before breakfast word came through that a Blyth's Reed Warbler had just been caught at the Obs so we managed to get a lift back to the Obs instead of having to walk. Gavin was the lucky person to ringing it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Elsewhere on the island a number of interesting birds were found including an Olive-backed Pipit, an Arctic Redpoll, a Red-breasted Flycatcher and a Canada Goose which is a scarce visitor to North Ronaldsay. </span>Mallimakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970048332832479292noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747292285345660123.post-71646138367866028682013-10-15T21:32:00.001+01:002013-10-21T14:49:22.141+01:00NRBO Autumn Visit - Day 2 (14 Oct)<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Day 2 started up at Holland House with Simon, Steph and Stan for the morning mist netting session. I don't have full details of the session however species caught included Redwing (40+), Common Redpoll (Mealy and Lesser), Goldcrest, Blackcap and Wren.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">During the morning session, after Stan and I had left, Simon heard the Bullfinch that had been seen the day before but it still stayed clear of the nets. Maybe tomorrow if it is still about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I ringed four Redwing and a Redpoll and processed a retrapped Blackcap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After breakfast Claire and I went for a stroll along the beach between the Obs and Howar. There were a number of wader species including three Oystercatchers, 16 Sanderling, 11 Turnstones and four Ringed Plover.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There was also a flock of 20 Snow Buntings which promptly disappeared everytime they landed on the beach just above the high water mark as they blended in so well with the background.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the afternoon I went back up to Holland House to rejoin Simon and Steph. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">During this session I ringed a Redpoll, a Blackbird, a Linnet, a Chaffinch and a another Great Spotted Woodpecker. There were also a few Blackcaps retrapped.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Great Spotted Woodpecker</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The forecast is for light winds tomorrow so it will be interesting to see what turns up.</span>Mallimakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970048332832479292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747292285345660123.post-33104247614645287152013-10-14T13:40:00.001+01:002013-10-21T14:52:36.617+01:00NRBO Autumn Visit - Day 1 (13 Oct)<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">With the Autumn migration well under way I have come over to the Bird Observatory on North Ronaldsay for a few days with Claire, Stan and Margaret.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Having arrived at the Obs and dropped our kit off it was time to catch up on what was about and to have a spot of lunch before heading out. While we were having lunch I saw a Great Spotted Woodpecker fly past the Obs heading for the quayside. It headed straight for one of the metal lighting towers and on landing, in true cartoon style, it slid down the pole as it realised it hadn't landed on a tree!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The nets up at Holland House wouldn't be opening until 4pm so we headed over to the hide at Gretchen Loch just behind the Obs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here we saw a number of Teal and Wigeon, two Dunlin, a Redshank and a Golden Plover. A number of Snipe were also seen flying overhead. Also out over the East side of the island we could see a gathering of Gannets circling over the sea and a few of them diving down.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Leaving the hide we headed up the West coast towards the airfield. Along the way we saw three Jack Snipe, a Wheatear, a couple of Oystercatchers and a flock of about 200 Greylag Geese. Out of habit we scanned the flock and spotted two birds with Orange neck collars.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There has been a colour ringing project on Orkney for a few years now for Greylag Geese to try and understand the movements of the local population and on the whole they don't seem to travel very far from their breeding grounds although there have been a small number of birds that have found their way down to Norfolk for the winter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So we wanted to read the rings on these two birds which we eventually did and got the ringing codes IBD and IBK. I thought I saw a third bird with a collar but before I could locate it in the flock something spooked them and they were away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Continuing up the coast we saw a Grey Heron, a Goldcrest, a Peregrine and a life tick for Stan in the form of a Snow Bunting.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Snow Bunting</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Out on the sea there were a few Eider and a couple of Black-throated Divers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Turning inland we came out onto the road by Ancum Loch and set off towards Holland House. We decided to take the road down past the shop/post office and saw our first Redwings and Fieldfares. We located another flock of Greylags and a quick scan revealed that they were the same flock as seen earlier as I picked out IBD and IBK. I also spotted the third bird with a collar which was IBL. I have passed the details onto Al our Greylag colour ringing co-ordinator and will hopefuly get some info on them later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A quick word with the Obs staff confirmed that they had colour ringed Greylags in the past but not this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We arrived at Holland House with about 15 minutes to spare so had a quick look around the area of derelict buildings at the rear of the property and the garden area alongside the main road. This is an area that can be good for small passerines and is always worth a scan when passing. Stan came up trumps when he spotted a male Northern Bullfinch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The ringing session resulted in 25 birds being caught including seven Blackbirds, two Goldcrests, two Redpolls (one a Mealy the other a Lesser), a Robin, a Blackcap, a Woodpigeon, eight Linnets and three Great Spotted Woodpeckers, one of which was a new one and a new ringing species for me as the last one I handled was a retrap.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Mealy Redpoll - Carduelis flammea flammea</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lesser <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Redpoll - Carduelis flammea cabaret</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Lesser Redpoll is smaller and darker brownish when compared to the Mealy Redpoll.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Redpolls were also a new ringing species for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A dawn start for tomorrow and maybe some Redwings.</span>Mallimakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970048332832479292noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747292285345660123.post-43000339063849409342013-10-12T21:40:00.002+01:002013-10-12T21:40:12.330+01:00A morning on South Ronaldsay<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This morning I went across to Andy's place on South Ronaldsay for a ringing session with Andy and Stan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It was a fairly quiet morning all in all but still interesting with plenty of time to study some of the birds I don't get to handle very often.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The morning started with a male Blackcap appearing in the bushes opposite Andy's ringing shed, a bird which managed to avoid the nets for the whole ringing session.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There were plenty of Wrens, Robins and Blackbirds about of which we caught five, four and two respectively. We also caught a couple of Goldcrests and the highlight of the morning a single Willow Warbler.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A total of 14 birds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A small flock of Redwings were seen flying over the woods closely followed by a Sparrowhawk but they all managed to avoid being breakfast.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A female Hen Harrier was also seen drifting across the fields.</span><br />
<br />Mallimakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970048332832479292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747292285345660123.post-13604069705233461322013-09-29T22:17:00.000+01:002013-09-29T22:17:04.737+01:00They think it's all over ...<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After we had finished at the ringing site on Deerness yesterday afternoon we headed for the reed bed for the last ringing session of the season.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As the number of Swallows was likely to be low we set one of the tape lures to play Pied Wagtails. We had tried this particular sound track before with mixed results but decided to see if it would give us any results this time.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The number of Swallows flying over the reed bed was well down on previous evenings and again they were feeding high up.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On entering the reed bed the first net was empty, the second had a solitary Swallow and the third had 7 Pied Wagtails. So the tape lure had worked this evening.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Whilst watching the ever increasing flock of Starlings doing their usual evening aerobatics display before roosting for the night, a Sparrowhawk was spotted heading straight for the flock causing it to split up into several smaller groups. The Sparrowhawk didn't seem to waste much time chasing the Starlings as it headed across the reed bed and disappeared into some nearby trees. Only to reappear a short time later and head back out over the reed bed this time joinging up with a second Sparrowhawk. But with the light starting to fade I lost sight of them against the hill behind the reed bed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It was time to do the last net check of the season. The Swallows flying over the reed bed had dropped once again into the reeds towards the back of the reed bed so we weren't expecting to find too many birds in the nets. However we had birds in all three nets and the final catch consisted of 4 Pied Wagtails and 21 Swallows.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So the total catch for the evening was 11 Pied Wagtails and 22 Swallows.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This year's season had lasted for two months, we had 16 sessions and caught a total of 1001 birds consisting of 979 new birds and 22 retraps.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The final totals this season are:</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Species Ringed Retrapped Total</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> Blackbird 2 2
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Linnet 1 1<br />
Pied Wagtail 24 24<br />
Reed Bunting 21 2 23
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Sand Martin 8 1 9
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Sedge Warbler 104 13
117<br />
Starling 22
22<br />
Swallow 791 6 797<br />
Thrush Nightingale 1 1<br />
Willow Warbler 1 1<br />
Wren <u> 4 4 </u><br />
<b>Total 979 22 1001 </b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span>The totals had been adjusted to include the sessions that I missed. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There were two new species </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">for the reed bed this year, Linnet and the Thrush Nightingale.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So focus now moves to Autumn migrants and winter visitors but it won't be long before we start to think about watching the skies for the first signs of the returning Swallows!!</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They think it's all over, well the Swallow season is now. </span></span><b><br /></b></span></span></span>Mallimakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970048332832479292noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747292285345660123.post-44977230552016839752013-09-29T21:34:00.001+01:002013-09-29T21:34:39.062+01:00A couple of migrants<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">With the number of Autumn migrants in Orkney starting to increase Colin, Stan and myself headed for one of the ringing sites on Deerness yesterday afternoon to see what might be about.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There had been reports earlier in the day that Yellow-browed Warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus) had been seen at this particular site and having already missed out on seeing one on Burray earlier in the day I was keen to see this particluar species as it would be a new life list species for me as well as a new ringing species should we happen to catch any.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Yellow-browed Warbler breeds in Asia, East from the Urals through to China and mainly winters in the tropical South-East of Asia with small numbers appearing in Western Europe. In Orkney it is classed as an uncommon Autumn passage migrant, accidental in Spring.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This small warbler is about the same size as a Wren (9.5-10 cm) and weights in the region of 4-9g.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It has green upperparts with off-white underparts, a bold yellow
stripe over each eye, prominent yellow double wing bars, black and white
pattern on the tertials and long supercilia.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At first it was pretty quiet with hardly a bird to be heard. The clucking of a Blackbird, a few Golden Plover flying overhead and the churring of a Wren. After a while we started to hear a number of Yellow-browed Warblers calling and we could see them flitting about in the tops of the trees.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A check of the nets and we had caught one, giving me my first opportunity to see this smart little bird close up and also to ring it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On the next net check we had caught a second one which Stan got to ring. It was interesting to see that the second bird looked a bit duller than the first, as can be seen in the photos below.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yellow-browed Warbler - note the yellow eye stripe and double wing bars</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yellow-browed Warbler - note the duller plumage compared to the first bird</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yellow-browed Warbler</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Further net checks only produced a single Chiffchaff, so a fairly quiet afternoon.</span></span><br />
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