A trio of freshly ringed Hawfinches being released during the Young Person's New Forest Wildlife Camp in spring 2022 HawfinchesUK #BirdRinging youtube.com/watch?v=Mt4FnX…

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Been colour ringing small no.s Common, Little and Sandwich Terns over the last few weeks. Here's a well grown Sarnie from this afternoon. Lymington-Keyhaven Nature Reserve #Birdringing

Bit quiet on the ringing front at the mo' but getting some nice juv Greenfinch in the garden #BirdRinging

04.30 start for CES yesterday: 26 birds, 12 spp. Birding along the seawall till lunchtime. Break. 23:30 finish after Swallow roost (15 juv, 1 adult male), watching 2 pr Nightjar flying over nets, & a Lappet laying eggs in one #BirdRinging Lymington-Keyhaven Nature Reserve

You'll have to take my word for it, but this was one of 6 Hawfinches at Netley Heath today. Also in attendance: 2 Siskins and several Marsh Tits. SurreyBirdClubNews

This is the very last thing our threatened Hawfinch population needs. This disease sent the Greenfinch into a rapid decline which thankfully now looks to have turned a corner 🔽🔽

Great to see more juv Sedge & Reed Warblers in the nets, along with Linnet. Yet to persuade large flocks of Goldfinch feeding on thistle nearby to join them Lymington-Keyhaven Nature Reserve

Last CES of 2022 rather quiet (birds) and grey (weather) but team's spirits raised by a smart Lesser Whitethroat and a 3M Sparrowhawk Lymington-Keyhaven Nature Reserve Photo credit: @phantomofforest

Reed Warbler ringed Keyhaven 11/8/21 as a 3 (1st yr), caught as breeding female 26/7/22 Llangorse Lake, Powys (179km) Lymington-Keyhaven Nature Reserve

Nice to catch Stonechat & Treecreeper among the more usual suspects yesterday Lymington-Keyhaven Nature Reserve

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After wet morning, nice to catch a pair of Firecrest in the garden over lunch.

Nice little recovery report just in: A Lesser Redpoll ringed at Keyhaven as a 3M on 4th November 2020 caught again at Llangorse Lake, Powys (179km away) on 19th November 2022. Lymington-Keyhaven Nature Reserve

Thanks to one of our 12 year old trainees for our fab new NFRG logo!

Tonight marked a full 12 months of dazzling at our East Renfrewshire farmland site. The session ended with 3 Woodcock, 3 Skylark and a retrap Jack. Our 12 month wader total finished on 113 birds ringed. Main ones being Woodcock (56), Jacks (31 + 14 RT) and 21 Common Snipe

Been a slow start to the ringing year so far nice to get 23 birds in the garden this morning, including a couple of Nuthatch. #BirdRinging

Yesterday we did our first BTO CES (constant effort survey) session of the season at Keyhaven catching 37 birds of 12 species. Highlight for me was catching a regular Whitethroat, first ringed in 2018 and recorded on site almost every year since.