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May, 2010  // Posts published in May, 2010

This Bird Sells A Flockload Of Newspapers | The Enthusiast

Proving that tabloids aren't just interested in human breasts, the Mail devoted a full page of its print edition to a picture of a rare white-breasted bird from East Dorset . Back in 2004, a stunning blue-breasted ...

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Dorset-15th April 2010 | UK UFO Sightings

I really didnt know what to do because it was defintly not a plane or a bird if anyone has any sort of explanation for this please tell. No one really cares because we cant do anything about them but this time it was really weird. ..

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The RSPB: Threatened wildlife gets boost from Dorset quarries

“There are some wonderful nature reserves up and down the country which have already been created in former quarries with wetlands for otters and wading birds , woodland for nightingales and woodpeckers, heathland for natterjack toads and ... The Spring brings nesting little ringed plover and a large number of starlings (2000+) over-winter in the site's restored reedbed. However, keen local nature-lovers report sightings of woodlarks on land adjacent to the quarry which ...

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Birdwatchers flocking to Magee marshlands

More than 50,000 birdwatchers will flock to northern Ohio during the next six weeks. The first wave has already landed at the biggest week in American birding.

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Ringing a Dunnock

paintapicture2009 posted a photo: Dunnock is also known as hedge sparrow, hedge accentor or hedge warbler

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Wren

paintapicture2009 posted a photo: Reading the ringed data ...

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How to catch a bird

paintapicture2009 posted a photo: Geoff, rescuing a wren from the net, ready to check whether it is already ringed... If the bird is not already ringed. it is weighted, its sex is determined, its wing span is measured

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Measurements & Ringing

paintapicture2009 posted a photo: Taking the measurements and ringing the bird...

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Goldcrest

paintapicture2009 posted a photo: Gabriel getting ready to release th Goldcrest back into the wild of Alexandra Park ...

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BTO Bird Ringing – 'Demog Blog': Montagu's magic!

With a bit of help from their friends, the Ringing Team quickly tracked down this individual's origin - it was ringed and tagged as a pullus 18 July 2008 in Villeneuve, France, 817 kilometres south of Horsey. ...

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