Above: Greenshank
Above: A stunning bird & unmistakable silhouette - Bee Eater.
Above & Below: My dad got really taken with these birds - he found the first two we saw. Blue Rock Thrush (male).
Below: A chaffinch.
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A photograph of my first Green Woodpecker. Self caught: 10 + 3 retrap
Ringing count for this species: 1
Ringing count for this species: 1
Green Woodpecker
A photograph of my first Green Woodpecker. Self caught: 10 + 3 retrap
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Ringing count for this species: 1
Wheatear
Ringing count for this species: 1
Bird Ringing Reports
Latest Recoveries
Common Whitethroat Y751140
Ringed: 02/09/12 Henlow, Bedfordshire
Controlled: 17/05/13 Sandy Smith Nature Reserve, Beds Duration: 257 days Distance: 6 km Direction: W
Chiffchaff BJL258
Ringed: 01/07/13 Temple End, Hertfordshire
Controlled: 01/09/13 Sandy Smith Nature Reserve, Beds Duration: 62 days Distance: 13 km Direction: NNW
Blue Tit D261238
Ringed: 21/07/13 Everton, Bedfordshire
Controlled: 17/11/13 Sandy Smith Nature Reserve, Beds Duration: 119 days Distance: 15 km Direction: SSW
Dunnock L856876
Ringed: 07/09/13 Shipton Oliffe, Gloucestershire
Found freshly dead: 20/01/14 Shipton Oliffe, Glos. Duration: 166 days Distance: 0 km Direction: N/A
Lesser Redpoll Y486613
Ringed: 08/12/12 Sandy Smith Nature Reserve, Beds
Controlled: 01/05/13 Swarland, Alnwick, Northumberland
Duration: 144 days Distance: 376 km Direction: NNW
Lesser Redpoll Y486532
Ringed: 24/11/12 Sandy Smith Nature Reserve
Controlled: 05/05/13 Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire
Duration: 162 days Distance: 275km Direction: NNW
Reed Bunting Y350267
Ringed: 26/05/12 Sandy Smith Nature Reserve, Beds
Field Observation: 12/04/13 Southill, Bedfordshire
Duration: 321 days Distance: 6km Direction: NE
Siskin (BLB)12630225
Ringed: 24/02/12 Wibrin, Luxembourg, Belgium Controlled: 08/08/12 Sandy Smith Nature Reserve, Beds
Duration: 288 days Distance: 474km Direction: WNW
Corn Bunting NW59646
Ringed: 06/07/11 Steeple Morden, Cambs
Controlled: 13/01/13 Priory Country Park, Bedfordshire
Duration: 557 days Distance: 23 km Direction: WNW
Long Tailed Tit DPN712
Ringed: 20/09/11 Paxton Pits Nature Reserve, Cambs
Controlled: 29/03/13 Sandy Smith Nature Reserve, Beds
Duration: 556 days Distance: 26 km Direction: SSW
Ringed: 02/09/12 Henlow, Bedfordshire
Controlled: 17/05/13 Sandy Smith Nature Reserve, Beds Duration: 257 days Distance: 6 km Direction: W
Chiffchaff BJL258
Ringed: 01/07/13 Temple End, Hertfordshire
Controlled: 01/09/13 Sandy Smith Nature Reserve, Beds Duration: 62 days Distance: 13 km Direction: NNW
Blue Tit D261238
Ringed: 21/07/13 Everton, Bedfordshire
Controlled: 17/11/13 Sandy Smith Nature Reserve, Beds Duration: 119 days Distance: 15 km Direction: SSW
Dunnock L856876
Ringed: 07/09/13 Shipton Oliffe, Gloucestershire
Found freshly dead: 20/01/14 Shipton Oliffe, Glos. Duration: 166 days Distance: 0 km Direction: N/A
Lesser Redpoll Y486613
Ringed: 08/12/12 Sandy Smith Nature Reserve, Beds
Controlled: 01/05/13 Swarland, Alnwick, Northumberland
Duration: 144 days Distance: 376 km Direction: NNW
Lesser Redpoll Y486532
Ringed: 24/11/12 Sandy Smith Nature Reserve
Controlled: 05/05/13 Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire
Duration: 162 days Distance: 275km Direction: NNW
Reed Bunting Y350267
Ringed: 26/05/12 Sandy Smith Nature Reserve, Beds
Field Observation: 12/04/13 Southill, Bedfordshire
Duration: 321 days Distance: 6km Direction: NE
Siskin (BLB)12630225
Ringed: 24/02/12 Wibrin, Luxembourg, Belgium Controlled: 08/08/12 Sandy Smith Nature Reserve, Beds
Duration: 288 days Distance: 474km Direction: WNW
Corn Bunting NW59646
Ringed: 06/07/11 Steeple Morden, Cambs
Controlled: 13/01/13 Priory Country Park, Bedfordshire
Duration: 557 days Distance: 23 km Direction: WNW
Long Tailed Tit DPN712
Ringed: 20/09/11 Paxton Pits Nature Reserve, Cambs
Controlled: 29/03/13 Sandy Smith Nature Reserve, Beds
Duration: 556 days Distance: 26 km Direction: SSW
Quick Links
- Antonio Calvo, Extremadura, Spain
- Bedsbirds Images Blog
- Bedsbirds Yahoo group
- Bogbumper
- BTCV Bedfordshire Blog
- BTO 'Out of Africa' Blog
- BTO (British Trust for Ornithology) web site
- BTO Demography Blog
- Errol Newman's Blog
- Ivel Ringing Group Blog
- Mark Thomas 'Bucktonbirder' Blog
- My Brother's Blog!
- Priory Country Park Blog
- RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) web site
- Sister-in-law's blog
- Steve Blain's Blog
- The Conservation Volunteers web site
- The Greensand Trust
- Wash Wader Ringing Group web site
- Wentworth Wooden Jigsaws web site
Species Ringed List (100 so far) CAPS = Particular highlight
- BAR-TAILED GODWIT
- BEARDED TIT
- BLACK-TAILED GODWIT
- BRAMBLING
- BUZZARD
- Barnacle Goose
- Black Headed Gull
- Blackbird
- Blackcap
- Blue Tit
- Bullfinch
- CETTI'S WARBLER
- COAL TIT
- COMMON TERN (my third favourite)
- CORN BUNTING
- Canada Goose
- Chaffinch
- Chiff Chaff
- Collared Dove
- Common Redpoll
- Cormorant
- DUNLIN
- Dunnock
- FIELDFARE
- GOSHAWK
- GRASSHOPPER WARBLER (1st self caught ringing tick)
- GREEN WOODPECKER (my favourite)
- GREY HERON
- GREY PLOVER
- Gadwall
- Garden Warbler
- Goldcrest
- Goldfinch
- Great Spotted Woodpecker
- Great Tit
- Greenfinch
- Greylag Goose
- HOUSE MARTIN (6th self caught ringing tick)
- Hering Gull
- House Sparrow
- JACK SNIPE
- JACKDAW
- JAY
- KESTREL
- KINGFISHER
- KNOT (50th Species)
- LESSER REDPOLL
- LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER (5th self caught ringing tick)
- LESSER WHITETHROAT
- LINNET
- Lesser Black Backed Gull
- Long Tailed Tit
- MARSH TIT (80th Species)
- MISTLE THRUSH (4th self caught ringing tick)
- Magpie
- Mallard
- Meadow Pipit
- Mute Swan
- NIGHTINGALE
- NUTHATCH
- OYSTERCATCHER
- PEREGRINE
- PIED FLYCATCHER
- PIED WAGTAIL
- Pochard
- RED BREASTED FLYCATCHER
- REDSHANK
- REDSTART
- RING OUZEL
- Redwing
- Reed Bunting (1st bird I ever handled)
- Reed Warbler
- Robin
- SAND MARTIN
- SANDERLING
- SISKIN
- SPARROWHAWK
- SPOTTED FLYCATCHER (2nd self caught ringing tick)
- STONECHAT
- STORM PETREL
- SWALLOW
- Sedge Warbler
- Song Thrush
- Starling
- Stock Dove (my 1st species)
- Swift
- TEAL
- TREE SPARROW
- Treecreeper
- Tufted Duck
- WHEATEAR (3rd self caught ringing tick)
- WOODCOCK (my second favourite)
- Whitethroat
- Wigeon
- Willow Warbler
- Wood Pigeon
- Wren
- YELLOW BROWED WARBLER
- YELLOW WAGTAIL
- Yellowhammer
Would like to ring list
- 1. Long Eared Owl
- 2. Puffin
- 3. Little Tern
- 4. Chough
- 5. Dipper
- 6. Black Tern
- 7. Bittern
- 8. Whinchat
- 9. Turtle Dove
- 10. Water Rail
- 11. Skylark
- 12. Dartford Warbler
- 13. Turnstone
- 14. Waxwing
- 15. Cuckoo
- (1) Green Woodpecker (ringed 04/07/09)
- (5) House Martin (ringed 01/07/12)
- (5) Corn Bunting (ringed 10/11/12)
- (8) Jack Snipe (ringed 03/01/09)
- (8) Nuthatch (ringed 24/10/09)
- (8) Brambling (Ringed 09/2010)
- (8) Spotted Flycatcher (ringed 03/09/11)
- (8) Stonechat (ringed 15/10/14)
- (10) Bearded Tit (ringed 14/11/10)
- (10). Fieldfare (ringed 21/01/13)
- (11) Sparrowhawk (Ringed 09/2010)
- (11) Wheatear (ringed 03/09/11)
- (11) Mistle Thrush (ringed 26/02/12)
- (15) Coal Tit (ringed 28/09/09)
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Followers
Self Caught List (59 so far)
- Blackbird
- Blackcap
- Blue Tit
- Brambling
- Bullfinch
- Cetti's Warbler
- Chaffinch
- Chiff Chaff
- Coal Tit
- Collared Dove
- Common Redpoll
- Corn Bunting
- Dunnock
- Fieldfare
- Garden Warbler
- Goldcrest
- Goldfinch
- Grasshopper Warbler
- Great Spotted Woodpecker
- Great Tit
- Green Woodpecker
- Greenfinch
- House Martin (50th Self caught)
- House Sparrow
- Jackdaw
- Jay
- Kestrel
- Kingfisher
- Lesser Redpoll
- Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
- Lesser Whitethroat
- Linnet
- Long Tailed Tit
- Magpie
- Marsh Tit
- Meadow Pipit
- Mistle Thrush
- Nuthatch
- Pied Wagtail
- Redwing
- Reed Bunting
- Reed Warbler
- Robin
- Sedge Warbler
- Siskin
- Song Thrush
- Sparrowhawk
- Spotted Flycatcher
- Starling
- Stonechat
- Swift
- Treecreeper
- Wheatear
- Whitethroat
- Willow Warbler
- Wood Pigeon
- Wren
- Yellow Wagtail
- Yellowhammer
RSPB Pin Badge Collector
I am a collector of RSPB Pin Badges with their associated backing cards. If you are interested, you can buy your own from RSPB shops and from donation boxes located anywhere (try your local shops). The RSPB also have a Pin Badge Collectors Club. E-mail Mark on PinBadge.CollectorsGroup@rspb.org.uk for more information (old, rare and international badges that are no longer in production or not available in the UK can be sourced here).
You may not believe it, but at auction the rarest & best badges can go for £200 +!!!
You may not believe it, but at auction the rarest & best badges can go for £200 +!!!
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- I work with volunteers carrying out practical conservation work for BTCV. I am a bird ringer in my spare time.
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