Bill Haines (West London Birding)

Nice to get in on the Oak Beauty action this morning. I’d forgotten how large they were! #mothsmatter #teammoth #londonmoths

Great report of a Tufted Duck from @theroyalparks.bsky.social. This little duck, ringed at #Serpentine #Hydepark in Dec 2023 made it all the way to the Rusian arctic circle, ca 2000km NE of Moscow. This shows just how far ducks wintering in London can migrate. #Londonbirds #birdringing #duck #BTO

I'm not sure about its darvic though - is that RTA? Hopefully not a portent of its fate 😂

Yeah! Well done @tobymoranmylett.bsky.social (and the obliging Coot)! 👏 🎉 #cootstudy

#Wisdom is back!
The world’s oldest known living banded bird, Mōlī (Laysan albatross) queen, has returned to Kuailhelani (Midway Atoll). #Birds

Stoked to have controlled this #Firecrest in the 'wild' area of @londonzoo.bsky.social. It had been ringed at @landguardbo.bsky.social in October and is almost certainly a continental migrant. It is one of only ~6 Firecrests that have travelled over 100km in the UK #Londonbirds #birdinging #BTO

#cootstudy Anyone know who has used colour-ring WN(NDV)? It was in The Regent’s Park in London today. If so can you send me the metal ring number. Thank you.

Great work, Toby 👏. Hope you get some good resightings. You never know, but one or more if them might turn up @theroyalparks.bsky.social 😀

Really excited with my first ever Vestal in my garden moth trap in west London last night 😀. #teammoth #londonmoths #mothsmatter

I've been updating our collaborative #CootStudy database. I started the study 17 years ago & thanks to a network of bird ringers across Britain & Ireland we've now colour-marked 4,400 Coot & received over 13,000 re-sightings. Pretty cool for a bird you hardly see in flight! #Ornithology #BirdRinging

An excellent start to the 2025-26 season of the waterbird monitoring project for @theroyalparks.bsky.social yesterday with 22 birds of 7 species captured and ringed under licence, incuding individuals for both #cootstudy & #NMP #birdringing #londonbirds

A leucistic drake Common Pochard in the Colne Valley today for those of you who like that sort of thing.

@patriciastoughton.bsky.social It's from Norway! You can submit it here as well post@ringmerking.no

Following on from an earlier posts about 'blue 2369', this is a great example of the same staging site being used pre- & post-breeding by one of the c/r Black-headed Gulls we ringed @theroyalparks.bsky.social last winter. Safe trip back to London! 📷Maarten Hotting. #londonbirds #gulls #birdringing

@g76birder.bsky.social Do look out for any of any of 'my' London brds (c/r white U300-U599). Though, I suspect most of mine remain largely within the M25 and the majority seem to come into central London to moult rather than leave it. But you never know... 🤞 @kanebrides.bsky.social

Colour-ringed summer plumage Black-headed Gull ringed in London and resighted recently in St. Petersburg

Interesting c/r gull sightings from @theroyalparks.bsky.social waterbird project seem to be like buses. Here's #Blackheadedgull blue 2356 looking very smart in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation on 14/05/2025, 2116km E of #TheRoundPond (where she was ringed in November 2024). 📸Mariia Azbeleva

Picture of colour-ringed Black-headed gull taken with a camera-trap

Map showing movement of black-headed gull between London and the Netherlands

A first for @theroyalparks.bsky.social waterbird monitoring project. One of our #blackheadedgulls (blue 2369 -ringed in December '24) was recorded on a camera trap! And even better is that it was on a small island in the Ijsselmeer (Netherlands). 📸courtesy of @maartenhotting.bsky.social.
#ringing

Head portrait of a female Reed Bunting (bird)

Our first 'customer' for CES Ringing 2025, Reed Bunting ABJ5611. She was ringed as a juvenile in June 2021 so is nearly 4 years old. #CES #birdringing #birdbanding #londonbirds

Always nice to get a White Ermine in the moth trap, especially such a fresh one early in the season, even if it is hiding its right antenna. #moths #mothsmatter #londonmoths

Agree

You did better than me @mothyblackburn.bsky.social . Just 4 Tachystola acroxantha in/around my trap in Ealing this morning.😞

Pair of colour-ringed Greylag geese with thie new goslings

Proud parents U416 ♂️ & U580 ♀️ (ringed under licence as part of @theroyalparks.bsky.social Waterbird Montoring Project) with their new family. One of a number of pairs of #GreylagGeese seen with young in #TheRegentsPark today. #ringing #colourringing #Londonbirds #geese

Caught and colour-ringed our last 4 #blackheadedgulls of the ‘24/25 season today in @theroyalparks including this smart lady. Safe travels guys and gulls (pun intended)

Black-headed gull in flight

With spring seemingly arriving many of @theroyalparks.bsky.social #Blackheadedgulls are thinking about, or already have left for their breeding grounds in continental Euope/Fennoscandia. Our #colour-marked birds have been seen this week in Southend and the Issjelmeer in the Netherlands. #migration

Wisdom (the world's oldest known bird) has done it again! friendsofmidway.org/wisdom-preva... 📸Dan Rapp (USFWS)

@patriciastoughton.bsky.social 🧵2/2.... If you seen any other metal-ringed birds in future the they can always be reported via app.bto.org/euring/lang/... or colour-ringed birds through app.bto.org/euring/lang/...

@patriciastoughton.bsky.social Here is a the ringing-resighting history of the #blackheadedgull you reported. It seems to show winter site-fidelity, but will leave for its summering area (probably in Continental Europe or Scandinavia) in the next few weeks. 🧵1/2

Female Pochard

Drake Gadwall

Coot

Definitely quality over quantity at this morning's ringing session in #HydePark @theroyalparks.bsky.social. 14 birds captured including Pochard and Gadwall as well as the more frequently captured Coot, Black-headed Gull, Mute Swan and Greylag Goose @birdingtothemax.bsky.social @NJ_Burnham #ringing

No problem. And for future information the majority of 'my' ringed #blackheadedgulls also have either an orange or blue colour ring (easier to read!). Examples below