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

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

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

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

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

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.

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