Monitoring Ingoldisthorpe last night produced 38 birds Blackcap 2 Cetti's Warbler 1 Chiffchaff 1 Pied Wagtail 7 (roost) Reed Warbler 1(4) Sedge Warbler 9 Swallow 11 (roost) Whitethroat 2 @norfolknats.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social #BirdRinging

Friday at Dersingham Bog, we added three Stonechat to the colour ringing project and monitoring Nightjar at dusk added an un-ringed adult Nightjar. We were joined by Frank Street a reserve warden from the Fens, who ringed his first Nightjar. @btobirds.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social

Monitoring last night at Sculthorpe Moor did not produce the hoped for Swallow roost, maybe the Sparrowhawk present played a role, but 21(4) birds Cetti's Warbler - 1 Chiffchaff - 1 Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Reed Bunting - 3 Reed Warbler - 13 (4, 2 from 2024) Sedge Warbler - 2 @hawkandowl.bsky.social

Monitoring last night Ingoldisthorpe lagoons resulted in 72 (5) Blackcap - 6 Blue Tit - 1 Chiffchaff - 1 Greenfinch - 8 Pied Wagtail - 12 Reed Bunting - 3 Reed Warbler - 9 (3) Sedge Warbler - 9 (2) Song Thrush - 1 Swallow - 17 Whitethroat - 4 Wren - 1 @norfolknats.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social

Monitoring at Sculthorpe Moor yesterday produced a total: 41 (10) Blackcap - 5 Blue Tit - 9 (2) Chiffchaff - 3(1) Dunnock - 2 Great Tit - 1 (1) Marsh Tit - 1 Reed Warbler - 2 (1) Robin - 2 (2) Sedge Warbler - 6 (2) Whitethroat - 2 (1) Wren - 8 @hawkandowl.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social

Monitoring last night at Deepdale Farm produced 12 birds Blackcap - 3 Chiffchaff - 1 Great Tit - 1 Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Whitethroat -4 Wren - 2 Adults after a busy breeding season of some species are now having to manage moulting into new feathers @deepdalecamping.co.uk @norfolknats.bsky.social

1/2. Yesterday we joined the warden and staff at Blakeney Point hoping to find Little Terns, Oystercatcher and Ringed Plover chicks suitable as part of three separate projects. We only got a single Little Tern as the the chicks that we were targeting had actually fledged just before our efforts.

Blackcap information AVZ0661 an adult male on 9/7/2026 at Deepdale Farm, Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk was originally ringed on 9/9/2025 at Brick Kiln Meadow, Suffolk .Time between sightings: 303 days. Distance: 87km @deepdalecamping.co.uk @burnhamdeepdale.co.uk @norfolknats.bsky.social

Foxley Wood today limited Butterfly numbers but a few Silver-washed Fritillaries including a Valezina form, a couple of Purple Emperors on the usual oak sap run, two Migrant Hawkers and up to 8 Brown Hawkers @norfolknats.bsky.social @britishdragonflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Today was habitat maintenance day at Deepdale farm, so while we did this we managed 23 (3 retraps ) Blackcap 7(1) Blue Tit 2 Chiffchaff 3 Goldcrest 2 Great Tit 2 Lesser Whitethroat 1 Whitethroat 4(2) Wren 2 @btobirds.bsky.social @deepdalecamping.co.uk #BirdRinging @norfolknats.bsky.social

1/2. Evening on 8th saw us at the River Trust lagoons at Ingoldisthorpe which turned out to be a productive evening as the site had a few Swallows roosting and quite a few Pied Wagtails. Several fledged Marsh harriers were hunting nearby and a Quail flushed from the grass.

1/2. 8th saw us back on Scolt Head to finish off training of one of the NE staff to ring Oystercatchers as part of a study looking at low survival rates starting next year. Also to ring Little Terns, but the few surviving pairs had all fledged.

1/2 Been a busy few days checking out Dragonflies, but on the evening 7th we needed to put time into the NE tracking Dersingham Nightjar foraging area study. We were unsuccessful with the female that had been located, and this year is proving hard to find breeding birds that the study focuses on.

Monitoring on a North Norfolk farm again last evening brought 10 birds including 3 Blackcap, Chiffchaff, 4 Whitethroat, plus a Blue Tit and another adult Quail @norfolknats.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social #BirdRinging

Monitoring on a North Norfolk farm last evening brought 13 birds including 4 Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Whitethroat and a Lesser Whitethroat, all juveniles and an adult Quail @norfolknats.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social #BirdRinging

Monitoring at Sculthorpe Moor today resulted in 23 birds, with juveniles out and about, all Warblers with 13 Chiffchaff, Willow, Grasshopper & Reed Warblers, and 7 Sedge Warblers @btobirds.bsky.social @hawkandowl.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social

1/1 Not many Sedge Warblers are recovered in the UK ringed in Morocco - this one had a Spanish ring, the one caught the same day at the same place with a Moroccan ring, the details are still awaited. Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus) Scheme: ESC Ring no: B131139 @hawkandowl.bsky.social

1/3 Another visit with Natural England for the afternoon primarily for addition Gull colour ringing and start of the Oystercatcher colour coding. @btobirds.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social #BirdRinging

1/2. Scolt Head Gull and Tern pulli ringing day (19th) with Natural England yesterday resulted in 201 Sandwich Tern, 79 Black-headed and 62 Mediterranean Gulls ringed, most also fitted with colour rings. @btobirds.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social #BirdRinging

Monitoring Sculthorpe Moor on 15th was a quite affair with 21 birds, 4 Reed, 3 Sedge, Whitethroat and Willow Warbler. One of the Sedges was the Spanish ringed bird still present. @hawkandowl.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social @wvbs2025.bsky.social

Blackcap ringing recovery, alas dead BCH5837 3 20/9/2025 Morston, Norfolk. 3 16/4/2026 Hanshagen, Mecklenburg - Vorpommern, Germany Time between sightings: 210 day Distance: 838 km @norfolknats.bsky.social @morstonpond.bsky.social

A further visit to the NW Norfolk estate produced another 11 juvenile, an adult Barn Owl at three boxes, a Stock Dove, a Stone Curlew off the estate and a colour ringed Stonechat at Dersingham Bog. Appropriate licences held. @btobirds.bsky.social @wildernorfolk.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social

Further brood of Marsh Harriers ringed & tagged in NW Norfolk this am and a brood of five Barn Owls ringed before the rain set in. 1/2 @norfolknats.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social

Two broods of Marsh Harrier of 2 & 3 chicks ringed today and fitted with wing tags as part of an on-going project that is revealing some interesting facts about these efficient hunters. All birds handled under the appropriator licences. @btobirds.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social

Monitoring Barn Owl boxes on a large North West Norfolk estate yesterday resulted in 29 ringed, 2 adults and 27 owlets plus 2 pulli Stock Dove. @wildernorfolk.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @gwct.org.uk

A combined group from Iceni and Natural England spent time in Hampshire liaising with Game Conservancy Wildlife Trust research staff learning the techniques of fitting telemetry tags to Oystercatchers to monitor their survival and forging activity. 1/3

Ringing demonstration at Deepdale Farm for Farm Sunday making the younger generation aware of our bird populations and showing them the magic of birds. 14 birds were available to see including 2 Blackcap, lesser Whitethroat and 4 Whitethroats. @deepdalecamping.co.uk @norfolknats.bsky.social

Monitoring Sculthorpe Moor today resulted in 15 birds, 2 Blackcap, Reed and 5 Sedge Warblers, plus 2 new Marsh Tit, one adult in wing moult and a juvenile. @hawkandowl.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social

Monitoring at Morston resulted in 18 birds including 8 Sedge Warblers and 7 Whitethroats. We then checked out some Barn owl boxes, unoccupied, but ringed a couple of Jackdaw young from one box. @morstonpond.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social

Monitoring Sculthorpe Moor today resulted in 20 birds, single Blackcap, Grasshopper and Reed Warblers, plus 5 Sedge Warblers, one ringed in Spain and the other Morocco. The Grasshopper warbler was also present in 25 @hawkandowl.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social