When I received a recovery report for a Redwing I had identified as being of the Icelandic race and it had actually been recovered in Icelan...

Well I am still here, for the time being at least, and my study Starlings seem too be doing particularly well. My RAS season started on 21st...

I haven't had any overseas recoveries for a while but I received a recovery report the other day which was literally over the sea. The r...

There hasn't been a great deal to report recently hence the lack of posts. The Collared Doves completed their nest and one of the adults...

Another recovery report for a Redwing landed in my inbox yesterday and gives further support to my view that most of the birds that migrate ...

I have just received a recovery report for a Redwing that was ringed at Billinge on 16/10/2016 and had reached northern Spain just 4 days la...

Regular readers of this blog may just remember a post ( link here ) in which I detailed my failure to catch a French ringed Blackcap in a fr...

Regular readers of this blog will have seen numerous posts that included photographs of a Belgium-ringed Blackcap that spent the second hal...

I received a recovery report for a Lesser Redpoll this afternoon, which is not that surprising given how many I ringed last autumn, but what...

I recently received a recovery report for a Song Thrush that was ringed at Billinge last October and recovered in southern Portugal earlier ...

As a general rule the more birds you ring of a particular species the greater the chance there is of one or more being recovered (found else...

I recently received the recovery report for the control Willow Warbler that I caught on Billinge Hill on 7th August and it had been ringed a...

Fellow ringer and Coot enthusiast, Kane Brides, phoned me to let me know that the Coot I photographed yesterday had been ringed at Cosmeston...

A Siskin ringed in the garden was the pick of the latest batch of recoveries received from the BTO. It was ringed as an adult female on 23/0...

The colour ringed Sanderling I photographed at Southport yesterday had been ringed in south west Iceland on 30th May last year. A distance o...