The Lincolnshire Bird Club

A few records from last evening :

Decent wader roost from 360 Hide included:

Dunlin 220
Ringed Plover 40
Ruff 9
Greenshank 1

Also

Barnacle Goose 9, one with a red ring with thin yellow line/border top & bottom with 8P in yellow letters (I think, light fading). Anyone recognise this type of ring ?
Common Tern 1
Swift 1
House Martin 1
Sand Martin 6
Sedge warbler 5
Twite 4
Wheatear 2


Phil

How bizarre! I should imagine this is actually 'BP' rather than '8P'. I only say that because it is almost certainly a bird ringed in Bedfordshire in 2005. This bird has an amazing history though, detailed on the BTO's 'Demog Blog':
http://btoringing.blogspot.com/2009/06/ ... -move.html

I'll make sure the ringer sees this and they'll send you full details.

Mark G

I saw this Barnacle Goose on 9/5/09 at RSPB Middleton Lakes in Staffs in the company of two other birds. At the time I hoped it was from Svalbard but I was told it was an east anglian bird which usually winters at Slimbridge.

Mark,
The picture on the link shows the ring on the bird as I remember it. As I said, the light was fading, so BP was the likely lettering rather than 8P. Who ringed it ?

Phil

Information received from Errol Newman - lew.n2@ntlworld.com - concerning the ringed Barnacle Goose:

1295590 4 Roxton GP 24-07-05
>> [Red B/P] RR Coate Water, Swindon, Wilts. 02-04-07 121 km SW, 617 days
>> VV Cassington GP, Oxford 25-05-07 80 km WSW, 670 days
>> RR WWT New Grounds, Slimbridge, Gloucs. 02-11-07 151 km WSW, 831 days
>> VV Drayton Bassett GP, Tamworth, Staffs. 09-05-09 105 km WNW, 1385 days
>> VV Wash Lane Flash, Sandbach, Cheshire. 16-05-09 178 km NW, 1392 days
>> VV Coed-y-dinas, Welshpool, Powys 05-06-09 199 km WNW, 1412 days
>> VV Old Moor, Wath-upon-Dearne, S.Yorks 17-06-09 166 km NNW, 1424 days
>> RR Lagoon 1, Rutland Water, Leics. 18-06-09 60 km NNW, 1425 days
>> VV Frampton-on-Severn, Gloucs. 13-03-10 147 km WSW, 1693 days
>> Note: last seen in the company of 101 other Bargos.
Believed to have wintered on the banks of the R.Severn for several years now (per WWT).