Under Rydon Hill

Welcome to this blog about my time away from the tedium of domestic management. Once called "Tits and Things", now sub-titled "Life in Quantoxia", there's plenty of bird ringing (90%), some odd bits of general birding, some local steam trains, some personal bits and occasional 'away days' in other parts of Britain. Rydon Hill overlooks the lower valley of the Doniford Stream, where most of these activities take place.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Half way to Paradise

At least the effort of waiting to ring a few finches until after the worst of the snow had receeded last winter has shown some reward.

Today, I had a recovery for a 2CY male Brambling that I ringed on 17th January this year, here in West Somerset. Three months (91 days) later it was controlled the other side of the Kiel Canal in Schleswig-Holstein at a place called Itzehoe. It was re-ringed for whatever reason with a new Helgoland ring [DEW Wilhelmshaven 82091710]. It had moved 918 km ENE towards its eventual breeding grounds, most likely somewhere in a montane birch forest of northern Fenno-Scandinavia or a riverine willow zone in western Siberia.



A good start for the significant recoveries file with a 'hit rate' for the species of 2%. I just wonder what next winter will bring.
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