Peregrine - Portland Bill, 12th March 2016 © Roger Hewitt
As might be expected at this time of year, it's been pretty quiet on the ringing front; however, today did see the first 'control' of the year: a Goldfinch which a quick check revealed had first been ringed in Weymouth - by Ian Dodd in his garden at Littlesea - on 15th October last year:
...fortunately, our ageing of this individual concurred with Ian's: it was a first-year last October and was a second-year today (such things aren't necessarily a given, since ageing isn't always the exact science that some folk would like you to believe - we have plenty of cases amongst the recoveries and controls on our books of birds that have apparently exhibited a peculiar Benjamin Button-esque trait of ageing in reverse!):
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgudqXMfqiCr6R9Q6XHtHpMnzfMYeiq0HmczkliFX2ucI9NU5y0jgw53oG0ups2FQBFwVdSrY6sN_-npOCA20uT5d69k37ylyY3ENts-t5qd10-sIRABmDJayfOTk9YWJXaFwVjGSrc6B2T/s1600/bp_goldfinch_wing_120316-006.jpg)
As might be expected at this time of year, it's been pretty quiet on the ringing front; however, today did see the first 'control' of the year: a Goldfinch which a quick check revealed had first been ringed in Weymouth - by Ian Dodd in his garden at Littlesea - on 15th October last year:
...fortunately, our ageing of this individual concurred with Ian's: it was a first-year last October and was a second-year today (such things aren't necessarily a given, since ageing isn't always the exact science that some folk would like you to believe - we have plenty of cases amongst the recoveries and controls on our books of birds that have apparently exhibited a peculiar Benjamin Button-esque trait of ageing in reverse!):
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgudqXMfqiCr6R9Q6XHtHpMnzfMYeiq0HmczkliFX2ucI9NU5y0jgw53oG0ups2FQBFwVdSrY6sN_-npOCA20uT5d69k37ylyY3ENts-t5qd10-sIRABmDJayfOTk9YWJXaFwVjGSrc6B2T/s1600/bp_goldfinch_wing_120316-006.jpg)