It was inevitable that Kane Brides would get name- checked by Aurora #LicencedBirdRinger in her talk on colour ringing Moorhens! #BTOCE24

Now we have Jack Baddams of Springwatch fame with an important message about the effective use of social media for public engagement. With that in mind, the hashtag for the conference is #BTOCE24 🙂

How many people can you reach with a ringing demo? 7.4 million people watched this video of a ringing session by Jack Baddams 😮 You can reach people who didn't even know they were interested in birds! #BTOCE24

Excellent talk by Jack Baddams on using social media. Lots of humour packaging some very important messages. As well as the appreciation of the conference audience Jack has in the past won the BTO Dilys Breeze Medal and the approval of Lad Bible! #BTOCE24 🙂

Was a pleasure to bore you all about moorhening 🙂

After a nice lunch and networking break we're back for the afternoon session with Claire Cresswell, who will be talking about Jack Snipe tagging and monitoring. #BTOCE24

West Midlands Ringing Group Aurora #LicencedBirdRinger 🫣 "and targeted re-sighting effort too" 👌🏻 Nice one Aurora #LicencedBirdRinger, and looks like a great conference West Midlands Ringing Group, sorry I can't be with you all! Enjoy!

We've been looking forward to this! Tara Okon and Trevor Fletcher from the Fledgemore Nest Recording Group. Tara's first talk on this subject was at the BTO Conference in 2019 and she was one of the most popular speakers at that conference. #BTOCE24

Another belter from Fledgemore Nest Recording Group! The slides show Tara's tips for getting involved in nest recording. For more information go to bto.org/how-you-can-he… #BTOCE24

One of our Group's study species now, so we'll be taking notes as Ollie Padget talks to Conference about #Nightjar tagging and monitoring. #BTOCE24

What a great conference organised by West Midlands Ringing Group and BTO! Fascinating talks about thermal tech to improve the quality of ringing and nest recording data, as well as other great projects. #BTOCE24 #NestRecordScheme

He's well known for his tireless work on Tree Sparrows, but today matt prior is talking about using thermal imaging to monitor Corn Buntings. Matt says they are the second most difficult passerine to catch, after Hawfinch. #BTOCE24

Some excellent, hard won, practical tips from matt prior for nocturnal catching of Corn Buntings with thermal imaging kit. #BTOCE24

Final talk for the Central England Bird Ringing and Nest Recording Conference is Mark Grantham with updates from the BTO Bird Ringing Scheme. Then we have workshops, the handing over of some excellent raffle prizes, and networking. Oh, and the bar will open! #BTOCE24

Final words from Lee Barber of BTO on projects such as Constant Effort Sites and Retrapping Adults for Survival. #BTOCE24

And now we have the raffle draw, with a fantastic selection of prizes from our generous sponsors. We will thank them properly in a later post. #BTOCE24

A pleasure for RSPB Investigations to speak at the conference today.

West Midlands Ringing Group BTO Thank you for inviting us! Excellent conference - Trevor Fletcher and I thoroughly enjoyed 🥰

Well this was fun today! Excellent conference, extremely well organised, fantastic talks, learnt lots and met lots of lovely people! Thanks for inviting #Fledgemore to speak about nest recording West Midlands Ringing Group - a real privilege 👏👏👏 BTO BTO East Glamorgan/Dwyrain Morgannwg #BTOCE24 Trevor Fletcher

A huge thank you to West Midland Bird Club who has subsidised 36 students and under 16’s so that they were able to attend the BTO Central England Bird Ringing & Nest Recording Conference 2024, hosted by us, sponsored by Thomas Jacks Focus Pulsar, Pixfra Thermal 4 Birding - Simpson Brothers Outdoors #BTOCE24