Before September - Stint and skuas Bird and other wildlife sightings from the Teifi Valley, the headlands from Cemaes to Mwnt and the sea

The last week on the Teifi Marshes including a Little Stint and a first for the reserve, a Long-tailed Skua teifibirding.blogspot.com/2025/09/befo...

06.09.2025 04:07 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

August highlights..from the Marshes Bird and other wildlife sightings from the Teifi Valley, the headlands from Cemaes to Mwnt and the sea

August highlights from the Teifi Marshes teifibirding.blogspot.com/2025/08/augu... #birdingwales

28.08.2025 05:50 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Storm Petrels...an update. We have likely finished our catching season at Strumble Head, hoping several more movements to make their way through the system, including ...

Update of Storm Petrel ringing at Strumble Head, Pembrokeshire, this year #birdringing #walesbirds
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14.08.2025 15:05 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

We seem to be having better results in the Irish Sea.. 60 Storm Petrels over 4 nights caught at Strumble Head #birdringing

30.06.2025 16:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Storm Petrels and early breeding results Mid June saw the start of our Storm Petrel ringing at Strumble. Over two nights we handled 18 birds, one of which had been ringed on Skokho...

New Teifi Ringing Group blog including Storm Petrels at Strumble Head, first signs of breeding success at our CES site and a Reed Warbler on the Teifi Marshes that had been ringed in Belfast #BirdRinging @btobirds.bsky.social teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com/2025/06/stor...

28.06.2025 07:15 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

A familiar ring number Rob...ringed by Teifi Ringing Group at Strumble Head last year on July 14th. #birdringing

19.06.2025 12:32 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I have found a picture of the 9 year old Great Spotted Woodpecker with extensive brown and poor quality feathers. Taken when retrapped in January #birdringing

10.06.2025 17:45 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

No pictures of the very old one but this one ringed in 2020 and caught this April also had some brown feathers particularly the primary coverts and 2 of the alula feathers.

08.06.2025 08:26 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The oldest bird in my garden this year was also a Great Spotted Woodpecker, ringed in 2016 and only seen in three of the years since then. Strangely, all of the primaries and secondaries were brown.

07.06.2025 21:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Recoveries and Reedbed arrivals Sedge Warblers,  are mostly on migration not local breeders, and numbers peaked in the third week of April. Because of the good weather, fre...

Teifi Ringing Group latest blog with news from the Teifi Marshes reed beds and movements of our birds including a Woodcock to Russia, Sedge Warblers from France and Jersey and a wandering Bullfinch from Llangorse Lake #birdringing #birdingwales teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com/2025/05/reco...

29.05.2025 08:50 — 👍 20    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

White Wagtail ringed on migration to Iceland

Spring migration so far through the Teifi Marshes and other news... teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com/2025/04/mid-... 62 White Wagtails, over 150 Sedge Warblers including one ringed in Wiltshire and one with a French ring and the first six returning Reed Warblers from previous years. #birdringing #wales

28.04.2025 20:27 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1

Welcome to the 9th year of ‘Wheatear Tales’; a diary of the Wheatear colour ringing research project on #skokholmisland via daily posts (previously posted elsewhere). One of our first pairs back are female C56 & male D63 - both 5 years old, exploring their 2025 territory. #ukbirding

05.04.2025 17:10 — 👍 34    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

A Black-tailed Godwit in the hand after ringing

New Teifi Ringing Group blog teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com/2025/04/wade...
Some wader ringing, spring arrivals and news of a movement of a nestling Grey Wagtail in a Dipper box from Carmarthenshire to N Devon #birdringing @btobirds.bsky.social

01.04.2025 15:37 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

We were fascinated watching this over the Teifi Marshes tonight. Thanks for the explanation

24.03.2025 22:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Reed Buntings with colour rings to study adult survival

New Teifi Ringing Group blog with an update of our early spring ringing and plans for the season ahead at our sites in West Wales teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com/2025/03/spri... #BirdRinging #BTO

13.03.2025 16:46 — 👍 26    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Well done to the Kartong Bird Observatory Gambian team 🇬🇲 They do so well with the number of colour rings recorded on the beach each week.

09.02.2025 13:44 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Movements of Storm Petrels to and from Strumble Head

Ringing a Storm Petrel

New Teifi Ringing Group blog with 2024 totals and movements teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com 29 of the 162 Storm Petrels encountered at Strumble Head were either re-encountered elsewhere during the season or had already been ringed at other coastal locations #birdringing #seabirds #ornithology

20.01.2025 21:51 — 👍 22    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Most of the Starlings we have re-encountered with rings have been at garden feeders either in Potter traps or mist nets

11.12.2024 15:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Teifi Ringing Group have several records of wintering Starlings ringed in Lithuania but this month an interesting movement was a bird caught near Lampeter. It had been ringed in a nest in Finland 2004 km away in May 2023 #birdringing teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com/2024/12/earl...

11.12.2024 07:11 — 👍 46    🔁 9    💬 3    📌 1

Cover for Devil Bird Island by Gill Lewis , illustrated by Irina Avgustinovitch and published by Barrington Stoke. Image of orange tent on Misty island with swooping black birds - and girl with dog and toy puffin in header

Illustration of man putting an ID ring on a Manx Shearwater while girl holds bird

Illustration of two adults and two children looking in wonder at Manx Shearwaters arriving on island in nighttime

Photo of people finding Manx Shearwaters to put BTO ID rings on.

Devil Bird Island - a story inspired by my visit with Teifi bird ringers to @skokholmisland.bsky.social
Magical place - isolated, yet acutely brings home the understanding that everything is connected.
Manx Shearwaters are one of my top birds - what are yours?
Illustrated by Irina Avgustinovitch

01.12.2024 09:36 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

The food rich habitat of tidal Mangrove mudflats in The Gambia 🇬🇲 with abundant Fiddler Crabs for wintering Whimbrel. Offshore, numerous Ospreys fishing at dawn, passing Caspian Terns and a Pomarine Skua. The end of another brilliant 3 week research and ringing expedition

30.11.2024 09:54 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks Martin. I am a complete Bluesky novice so a lot to learn I'm sure.

06.11.2024 20:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0