This colour-flagged Dunlin at Ferrybridge this morning was evidently first marked in Spain - full details when we receive them © Pete Saunders:
Talking of colour-marked birds, earlier this summer we had a really nice run of such sightings to report but our idea of mentioning them all together was scuppered by not hearing back in a timely manner on this Kittiwake...
...We're pretty sure this individual that turned up in the breeding colony at the Bill is from Brittany, France, but it's frustrating that it arrived here, paired-up, built a nest, laid eggs, brooded the eggs until just before hatching before they were taken by the b****y Raven and has now gone and we still haven't had a reply regarding the original ringing details despite the project being contacted on the very first day the bird was sighted. We appreciate that perhaps this colour-ringing project revolves more around breeding biology than movement but has someone really not had a few seconds to spare in the last two months to get back to us with the ringing details? © Jodie Henderson
Two birds that we do know the ringing details for are this Little Tern PJ4 that was in the Ferrybridge breeding colony back in May - it was ringed as a nestling at Gronant, north Wales, on 26th June 2021 and is only the second Welsh bird known to have taken up residence at Ferrybridge © John Dadds...
...and this Oystercatcher that was at the Bill in early May - it was ringed at Dawlish Warren, Devon, in July 2022 (and seen there subsequently until at least February 2023); it was actively looked for after the first sighting - and surely wouldn't have been missed for long beforehand as there are so few Oystercatchers at the Bill - but couldn't be found again so we're none the wiser as to whether it was a late migrant or just on a brief foray from Dawlish © Jodie Henderson:
