Monday, 8 February 2010

Moore Nature Reserve - Sunday 7th February 2010





Moore Nature Reserve - Sunday 7th February 2010..

It was a cold and misty morning with not much bird movement.

Sightings included Oystercatcher, Skylark,6 Greenfinch; 30+ Redpoll; 30 Teal and 5 Redwing.

Ringing totals -

GREAT TIT - (1)
BLUE TIT - 4

AEH

Thursday, 14 January 2010

Fieldfare and a Dunnock full of fleas...Thursday 14th January 2010






With a planned trip to Leeds cancelled due to motorway closures - the net in the garden went up - within a minute the first Blackbird went in, soon followed by a Dunnock which was infested with fleas. I imagine that with the cold weather it has been roosting in an old nest from last year, hence the flea infestation.
A Fieldfare has been feeding in the garden for the past 2 weeks but always seemed wary of the net - until today...new ringing species for the garden.
An adult female -wing 145mm and weight of 86g.
Also in the garden the last few days sightings include Goldcrest, Chiffchaff and several Redwing.
AEH

Monday, 4 January 2010

Moore NR - Saturday 2nd 2010 - Waxwings drop in...






Happy New Year to you all - hope you have had a good one!
New Years Day was spent ringing in the garden in the morning catching 3 new Blackbirds,2 Great Tits and a single Blue Tit, then the afternoon at Moore with the family for a walk and turned up a female Lesser Spot Woodpecker feeding with the Long Tails near to the distribution depot - an excellent start to the Year! A Green Sandpiper was on the Birchwood pool - though someone put it out as a Common Sand..plenty of Redwing about also and a nice flock of 20 Shoveler.
Saturday saw me back at Moore at 06.30hrs - very cold, and a no show from one of the trainees - you know who you are! Tired indeed...
With the log burner fired up things soon got warmer, not many birds about at the feeding station though.
A nice flock of 20 or so Redpoll were milling about and around 30 Redwing.
A single Jay brightened up the morning but not much else was caught before the nets had to be taken in due to bad weather closing in fast. 3 Waxwing dropped into the Moss Wood ahead of the storm, quickly moving on.
A Peregrine sailed over and the usual couple of Buzzards were sat around the paddocks.
Ringing Totals - Moore 02-01-2010

Jay -1
Robin - (1)
Dunnock -1 (1)
Blue Tit -(1)

AEH;PD

Thursday, 31 December 2009

30-12-09 - Cold and damp but 3 Black Heads and a Starling make up for it...



Myself, Keiran and Tony had an early start at New Brighton to have a go at Turnstone and to look at a couple of new wader ringing sites..the Turnstone were very jittery so we turned our attention to the numerous BHG's. We caught 3 adults and a first year female Starling.
Bar Tailed Godwits were in good numbers on the foreshore and a Great Crested Grebe fished close off-shore.
Back in the garden in Halewood another Bullfinch was caught and Buzzard hunted the fields in the front of the house amongst the 40 Lapwings.

AEH,KF,AO

Friday, 18 December 2009

All quiet at Moore -busy in the garden...




Sunday 13th December 2009 - Moore NR
Spent 3 hours in the afternoon cutting more rides and erecting a new bird table -the squirrels have chewed away all my feeders!
Not much bird wise apart from a Green Sandpiper and a thousand or so Jackdaws and Rooks coming into roost.
Ringed -0!

Halewood 11th - 18th December - several sessions in my garden produced a good variety of birds inc 6 Robins (2 retraps from April 08) and a retrap Great Tit from 2006,
Ringed -

BLUE TIT -12 (1)
GREAT TIT -8 (2)
COAL TIT -2
BLACKBIRD -2
CHAFFINCH -1
BULLFINCH -1
LONG TAILED TIT -1
DUNNOCK -1

TOTAL - 28 NEW 3 RETRAPS.

AEH

Thursday, 10 December 2009

Moore Nature Reserve -Saturday 5th December- a crow day....




I arrived at 06.15hrs to be greeted by the chorus of Jackdaws and Rooks arising from their overnight roost in the wood. Wirrals answer to Batman & Robin or should it be Compo & Clegg?? Steve and Kenny arrived not long after.
First round produced a Magpie and the second a Jay, Kenny too scared to ring either bird, prefering to ring the more gentle Long Tailed Tits.
Overhead flew a lone Whooper Swan heading East and Redwings were moving around the reserve all morning.

Ringing totals

MAGPIE -1
JAY -1
LONG TAILED TIT -2 (2)
COAL TIT -(1)
GREAT TIT -2 (1)
LESSER REDPOLL -3

TOTAL = 9 (4)

Back home in Halewood a Song Thrush has now joined Mistle Thrush in full song.

AEH;KMC;SB.

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Moore Nature Reserve - 21-11-09 & 28-11-09



21-11-09

COAL TIT - 1
GREAT TIT - 2
BLUE TIT - 1
LONG TAILED TIT - 1
ROBIN - 1
LESSER REDPOLL - 10
CHAFFINCH - 2
TOTAL = 18 NEW

28-11-09

DUNNOCK - 3
BLACKBIRD -1
TOTAL = 4 NEW

Sightings -28-11-09

SHOVELER-10
TEAL-20
PINK FOOTED GOOSE-300 FLYING SOUTH EAST
LESSER REDPOLL -10
SISKIN-2

The feeding station is now up and running and a duck trap is currently being baited so we should hopefully add some waterfowl to the ringing totals.

AEH