Brecknock Birds - Ringing Page

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Bird	Location	Date	Name	Ring / Tag description	Comment
Herring Gull	Llangasty, Llangorse Lake	24/10/23	Nick Morgan	Ring cohort:RED5 Ring code: F=N. Ring no.GY61811	Peter Rock has confirmed this to be a first winter Herring Gull, ringed pre-fledging as part of his urban gull scheme at Worcester on 29/06/23. This is the first sighting record since ringing took place.
Red Kite	Penrhos Ystradgynlais	Photo taken on 17/4/2022. Seen nearly every day.	A Borsden	Red right leg tag with the letters AH. Silver metal left leg tag.	Seen for the last 3 years. I have also seen it with what I believe is its young for the last 3 years.
Curlew	Llangasty	18/06/23	Mark Waldron	Black 18 & metal BTO ring on rt leg/orange plastic ring above the left knee. Its mate is unringed.
Red Kite	Libanus	04.05.23	Mark Waldron	Black left tag, blue right tag, "85". Metal ring number GC95713.	Worming on a newly ploughed field. BTO reports this bird was ringed as a nestling on 24/06/2010 near Sennybridge that summered around the area in 2021 & 2022.
Barnacle Goose	Derwentwater, Cumbria	19/04/23	Nigel Haslam	B24, white ring round neck	Seen on lake with about 8 other Barnacle geese, no visible tag for these.
Curlew	Tretower area	01/04/23	Andrew King	BINGO - got good views of the pair today.'Black 18' & metal BTO ring on rt leg/orange plastic ring above the left knee. Its mate is unringed.	This bird (probable male) had been seen at Llangasty Point 10 days ago, and possibly at Llangorse some weeks before that. Great to trace one of these c/r Curlew back to its breeding territory. I completely missed the birds there last summer.
Curlew	Llangasty Point	21/03/23	Andrew King	White inscription '18' on black ring (rt leg), and orange/yellow plastic ring on left leg. Flew in at 5pm with 5 other Curlew.	Returned to Llangorse Lake for its 5th spring to feed up prior to breeding at unknown location. Ringed at Gann Estuary, Dale, Pembs on 20/1/18, to where it returns to winter each year.
Curlew	Llangorse Lake	15.03.23	Mark Waldron	Yellow on right with metal below, White "53" on left.	Previously seen at Llangorse Lake 15/05/21. It wintered 21/22 and 22/23 along the Severn estuary at Guscar Rocks and Aylburton Warth which are close together on the west bank of the Severn estuary, downstream from the release point at Slimbridge. Quite a number of the surviving head-started birds winter there. This Curlew was released on 10/07/2019 at an age of 45 days after being hatched at Slimbridge as part of a programme to rescue eggs from RAF airfields where the nests would otherwise have been destroyed. This is part of the Slimbridge WWT head start programme. The idea is that these birds would stay in the Slimbridge area and add to the local breeding population.
Mute Swan	Crannog, Llangorse Lake	12.03.23	Mark Waldron	Z43794	This bird was ringed by the Llangorse Ringing Group in January 2012 and is only one of two Mute Swan's ringed by the group since 1990. Also seen here 27.12.21.
Curlew	Crannog, Llangorse Lake	05.03.23	Mark Waldron	Red / Black 18. Back for it's fifth spring.	Also present 12.03.23.
Oystercatcher	Crannog, Llangorse Lake	05.03.23	Mark Waldron	Metal, "FH18263".	FH18263 was on the Acorn jetty 05.03.23 with 3 unringed birds. This bird was ringed by Wash Wader Ringing Group as age at least 2 years in immature plumage, sex unknown on 11.08.10 at Wainfleet Marsh, Lincolnshire. The ring was also read at Llangorse Lake 29.03.18 which was the first report since it was ringed, and part read there 02.03.22. This history confirms what has been reported in the "Breconshire Birds" annual reports. In the 2009 report it was noted that there were no "summering or confirmed breeding" reports. It would seem likely that this bird summered between Llangorse Lake and Scethrog in 2010 and then was reported as the bird "with a metal ring on right leg" in 2011 & 2012 before attracting a mate in 2013 but making an unsuccessful breeding attempt, 1 fledged young 2014, 1 in 2015, 2 possibly 3 in 2016, a failed attempt in 2017, 1 fledged from 3 chicks in 2018, failed attempts in 2019 & 2020, 1 fledged young 2021 and 2 in 2022.
Barnacle Goose	Crannog, Llangorse Lake	05.03.23	Mark Waldron	Nine new recoveries in addition to yesterdays: Blue: B04 / B11 / B16 / B24 / B29 / B36 / B37 Yellow: P27 / P28	Also seen: Blue: B03 / B06 / B09 / B12 / B13 / B14 / B17 / B21 / B23 / B25 / B26 / B27 / B30 / B31 / B32 / B35 / B38 / B39 / B46 Yellow: P25 / P29 / P33 / P34
Barnacle Goose	Crannog, Llangorse Lake	04/03/23	Mark Waldron	Blue rings - B01 / B03 / B06 / B09 / B12 / B13 / B14 / B17 / B21 / B23 / B25 / B26 / B27 / B28 / B30 / B31 / B32 / B35 / B38 / B39 / B46 Yellow rings - P25 / P29 / P33 / P34	All of these were recorded at Slimbridge WWT during 22/23 winter EXCEPT B39 that was not recorded at Slimbridge at all, I wonder where this one wintered or if it was just missed?
Barnacle Goose	Crannog, Llangorse Lake	26/02/23	Mark Waldron	Blue B21, B28, B30 and B35 with a fifth blue ringed bird that could not be read.
Red Kite	Libanus	08.02.23	Mark Waldron	Black left tag, blue right tag, "85". Metal ring number GC95713.	BTO reports this bird was ringed as a nestling on 24/06/2010 near Sennybridge that summered around the area in 2021 & 2022.
Black-headed Gull	Llangorse Lake, Llangorse common	18/01/23	Mark Waldron	Blue "TC37"	Ringed as an adult in a breeding colony on 20/05/21 at Jezioro Biezdruchowo, Pobiedziska, Wiekopolskie, Poland. The only other sighting was at the same location 10 days after it was ringed.
Blackbird, male	car park, Llangasty	20.11.22	Peter Seaman	NFORM,Museum, ?SW7, ?902	[Full ring sequence is LB21902. This Blackbird has a history of having its ring number read off photographs at this site. Previously on 6th Dec 2020 and 7th Jan 2022. It had been ringed nearby (Llangasty) as a fledgling in summer late-2017.]
Cormorant	Llangorse Lake, sailing club jetty	09.11.22	Mark Waldron	Orange ring.	A second year bird with an orange darvic ring but the code could not be read, this bird is likely from a ringing project based in Cheshire or Abberton Reservoir, Colchester.
Mute Swan	Llangasty, Llangorse Lake	07.11.22	Mark Waldron	Blue 7ISN	Ringed XY2335 on 6th September 2017 on the Montgomery Canal at Brithdir near Welshpool.
Black-headed Gull	Llangorse Lake, Llangasty	26/10/2022	Mark Waldron	Black ABSV (metal ring 5442325)	This bird was ringed as a chick at Zwillbrocker Venn, Germany on 11/06/22. This is the first sighting since ringing.