A dry evening after a day of rain. Atmospheric walk #TeifiMarshes In the low evening light at least 140 House Martins, 100 Sand Martins and 50 Swallows were feeding low over the Water Buffalo. The sun was setting over Cardigan as a Great Crested Grebe floated into view.

New Teifi Ringing Group blog teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com/2024/04/sedge-… An April summary with news of Teifi Marshes Sedge Warblers to and from France, a Starling from Llandysul to Germany and a Siskin in West Wales March 2023 and in Essex March 2024

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Tomorrow sees the arrival of our first guests of 2024. The rooms are looking great and the Island is awash with seabirds and migrants. We still have a couple of rooms vacant for this Puffin season:
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Look who's back! Despite the bright moon, one of the Storm Petrels from Petrel Station box 11 returned at 00:10hrs and remained until close to dawn. Image courtesy of Chris Payne

A misty, cool start to the day on the Teifi Marshes. Sedge, Reed and Grasshopper Warblers in increasing numbers adding variety to the dawn chorus. Amongst the Sedge Warblers caught, one had a French ring BTO #migrationmonitoring

A Squacco Heron just flew from the Well to South Pond. The first for Skokholm and a cracking find by Emmanuel Jatta 🇬🇲, ably assisted by Richard Dobbins (they promise they didn't bring it over from Gambia).

Scintillating birding and ringing today. Over 300 Blackcap & smaller numbers of Pylloscs concentrated into ~20 acres. Over 250 birds from the 3 Heligolands including 189 Blackcap (one ringed in France and one with a BTO ring), a Portuguese ringed Chiffchaff & another nine Redwing

We have finished work on Petrel Station II (the doors will be added before the Storm Petrels return next April). If occupied at the same rate as the original, then in a century & a half we should have 148 breeding pairs in addition to the 30 or so currently nesting around the Obs

It's another wild day of backwards waterfalls

The clouds nearly cleared enough at Mwnt to see #SolarEclipse2024 . Worth the effort though as the wind had dropped and it was a pleasant evening for a walk anyway. Bonus was watching a Chough displaying and a Wheatear.

First Sedge Warbler, Teifi Marshes, this morning, singing from a patch of riverside reed near the bypass bidge. Paths flooded at high tide with a lot of water coming down the Teifi

We currently have the privilege of hosting Emmanuel Jatta 🇬🇲 from the brilliant Kartong Bird Observatory 🇬🇲 for a few weeks of training and exchanging ideas. Today was helping Ian Beggs with his Wheatear work, although the female Stonechat and Rock Pipits made up the non-heligoland catch

New post on Teifi Ringing Group blog. teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com/2024/03/early-… Spring arrivals, first Dippers hatched and late news of a Redwing ringed on the Teifi Marshes Oct 21, shot in Mallorca Dec 22

We are looking forward to welcoming Emmanuel to West Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Willow Warblers on the Teifi Marshes WelshWildlifeCentre this morning, our previous earliest ringed 8th April..

Our weekend hosting the Teifi Ringing Group continued with a busy bird ringing survey on the Lambourn Downs where we processed 171 birds, including 108 Linnets, 13 Corn Buntings and 33 Yellowhammers. We also recaptured a Linnet originally ringed 6km away in June 2022.

This weekend we’re hosting the Teifi Ringing Group, sharing our experiences of the farmland bird surveys we conduct in west Oxfordshire. We started with a fantastic bird ringing session today where we caught 274 birds, including 154 Linnets, 77 Yellowhammers and 9 Corn Buntings.

You'd be forgiven for thinking that we'd given up on the Skokholm twitter account, but we're back, fresh from an amazing trip to the Gambia. The last few days were spent getting ready for our return to Dream Island. The forecast for tomorrow is set fair, so we should soon be home

Looking for colour-ringed Terns and gulls on a boat trip in The Gambia on the Senegal border. Ospreys, Goliath Heron and Fish Eagles too 🇬🇲