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BIRD REPORT
BIRD RINGING AT WALBERSWICK — DINGLE BIRD CLUB BIRDS TRAPPED Species Sparrow Hawk Corncrake Little Owl Green Woodpecker Greater Spotted Woodpecker House-Martin Jackdaw Great Tit Blue Tit Marsh-Tit Willow-Tit Long-tailed Tit Mistle Thrush Song-Thrush Ring-Ouzel Blackbird Redstart Nightingale Robin Reed-Warbler
Species 1953 1954 Total 1 Sedge-Warbier 0 1 1 0 1 Blackcap 0 1 1 Garden-Warbler 1 0 1 Whitethroat 2 7 9 Lesser Whitethroat Willow-Warbier 0 1 1 Chiffchaff 0 1 1 Goldcrest 0 1 1 Spotted Flycatcher 0 3 3 Pied Flycatcher 0 13 13 Hedge Sparrow 1 41 42 Meadow-Pipit 1 2 3 Tree-Pipit 0 1 1 Pied Wagtail 0 3 3 Yellow Wagtail 12 22 34 Red-backed Shrike 0 3 3 Starling 8 23 31 Greenfinch 1 1 2 Goldfinch 11 85 96 Linnet 1 2 3 Bullfinch 0 2 2 Chaffinch 1 23 24 Yellowhammer 4 30 34 Reed-Bunting 0 4 4 11 31 42 T O T A L S 13 20 33
1953 1954 Total 32 1 33 1 15 16 1 5 6 23 195 218 3 26 29 0 52 52 1 17 18 0 2 2 0 3 3 2 3 5 9 49 58 0 15 15 u 1 1 0 4 4 U 3 3 0 5 5 0 44 44 1 30 31 1 13 14 2 20 22 + 0 4 4 22 26 0 2 2 5 43 48 122 926 1048
(N.B. 1953 Covers the period Aug. - Oct., a period of experiment. Nestlings, of which few were ringed, are not included in the above figures). RECOVERIES. Ringed
Species
2.9.53 Whitethroat 15.8.54 Wilow-Warbier 13.9.54 Whitethroat 21.10.54 Blackbird
Recovered
Re-trapped where ringed Zamudio, Bilbao, Spain Nr. Valenciennes (Nord), France Listowel, Co. Kerry, Eire
On
20.8.54 1.9.54 23.9.54 —.1.55
TRAPPING DÜRING 1954 AND SOME NOTES ON MIGRATION. SPRING.—-The traps were manned from April 2nd to June Ist. A few Chiffchaffs and Wilow-Warblers were caught at the beginning of April, but the only definite coastal passage of nocturnal migrants occurred during thefirstweek in May. Species involved included Redstarts, Sedge-Warblers, Blackcaps, Whitethroats, Lesser Whitethroats, Wilow-Warblers and Chiffchaffs : from 60 - 70 were caught and ringed.