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Ringing Report - 2004
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Snow Buntings
- Kessingland Beach - February 2005 - © Andrew Easton
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Ringing in Lizardland in 2004 was carried out at four sites:-
Corton
This is a linear site, following the path of the old railway track,
and consisting largely of tall hedgerows with some trees. Ringing
was mainly undertaken in autumn, when migrant birds, particularly
Blackbirds, occur in the hawthorn hedges. A Pied Flycatcher in August,
and a Woodcock in October were notable captures, but no rarities were
even seen. As an innovation, the site was extended to near the old
sewage works, where a Greenland Wheatear was ringed in Spring and
a good number of finches and Meadow Pipits were trapped in Autumn.
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Cetti's
Warbler - Kessingland - April 2004
- © Robert Wilton
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Kessingland
Sewage Works
This title covers a complex of habitats including not only the Anglian
Water compound, but a scrub area owned by the Parish Council and a
reedbed and wooded land in private ownership. The scrub in particular
was very good for warblers such as Blackcap and Whitethroat, and the
wooded area produced many Chiffchaffs plus the Dusky Warbler which
was trapped during a brief departure from its favoured feeding-ground
on the cliffs. The reedbed is home to a pair of Cetti's Warblers and
5 birds including young were ringed while patrolling the scrub. In
the autumn migrants included single Redstart and Pied Flycatcher,
but mostly Blackbirds and thrushes were trapped in good numbers. Activity
within the sewage works compound was limited by access conditions
but 2 Grey Wagtails and several Pied Wagtails and pipits were ringed.
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Dusky
Warbler - Kessingland - December 2004 - © Robert Wincup
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Lowestoft
Harbour (mainly SLP)
Conditional permission was obtained to ring Kittiwake chicks in part
of the colony on the "wall" and a small additional number
was ringed in the overflow colony on Claremont Pier, making 21 altogether.
56 Herring Gull chicks and 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls in a loose
colony on the SLP site were also ringed.
Kessingland Beach
Snow Buntings were attracted to an area of the beach baited with seed
and a total of 268 birds were ringed in January/February and November/December.
Birds originally ringed at Caister (Norfolk, 28kms north) were re-trapped
in both winters and even more Kessingland birds were trapped again
at Caister, demonstrating some movement along the East Coast. Seven
birds returned to our beach in the second winter suggesting site fidelity.
Just outside the Lounge Lizards' area, a brood of Swallows and one
of Spotted Flycatchers were ringed at Benacre and two Storm Petrels
were "tape-lured" at Covehithe.
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RINGING
TOTALS BY SPECIES
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2003 |
2004
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| SPARROWHAWK |
1
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4
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| WOODCOCK |
-
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1
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| TURNSTONE |
-
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10
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| LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL |
-
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2
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| HERRING GULL |
-
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56
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| KITTIWAKE |
-
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21
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| WOOD PIGEON |
1
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4
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| CUCKOO |
-
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1
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| KINGFISHER |
-
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1
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| GREEN WOODPECKER |
1
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4
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| GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER |
-
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1
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| SAND MARTIN |
-
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20
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| HOUSE MARTIN |
-
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2
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| MEADOW PIPIT |
-
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17
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| GREY WAGTAIL |
-
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2
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| PIED WAGTAIL |
-
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11
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| WREN |
13
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41
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| DUNNOCK |
14
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89
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| ROBIN |
26
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86
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| NIGHTINGALE |
-
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3
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| REDSTART |
-
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1
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| WHEATEAR |
1
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| BLACKBIRD |
157
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291
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| SONG THRUSH |
12
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45
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| REDWING |
8
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7
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| CETTI'S WARBLER |
-
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5
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| SEDGE WARBLER |
-
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36
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| REED WARBLER |
-
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27
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| LESSER WHITETHROAT |
-
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17
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| WHITETHROAT |
-
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121
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| GARDEN WARBLER |
-
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8
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| BLACKCAP |
9
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118
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| DUSKY WARBLER |
-
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1
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| CHIFFCHAFF |
1
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84
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| WILLOW WARBLER |
-
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14
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| GOLDCREST |
27
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78
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| FIRECREST |
2
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4
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| SPOTTED FLYCATCHER |
-
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1
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| PIED FLYCATCHER |
-
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2
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| LONG-TAILED TIT |
35
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56
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| COAL TIT |
-
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2
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| BLUE TIT |
51
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115
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| GREAT TIT |
13
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71
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| TREECREEPER |
2
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1
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| JAY |
1
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3
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| HOUSE SPARROW |
-
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8
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| CHAFFINCH |
6
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45
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| BRAMBLING |
-
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4
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| GREENFINCH |
11
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140
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| GOLDFINCH |
-
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32
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| LINNET |
-
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12
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| LESSER REDPOLL |
1
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-
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| BULLFINCH |
4
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10
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| SNOW BUNTING |
9
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268
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| YELLOWHAMMER |
-
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20
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| REED BUNTING |
-
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2
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| TOTALS |
405
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2026
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Ringing
data supplied by Colin Carter
For more details on ringing in 2003 click here.