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Simon Tucker @simonrtucker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

First Siskin of the Autumn at Lower Moor Farm

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Simon Tucker @simonrtucker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Not sure why BlueSky insists on rotating the image but what a lovely bird to start a ringing session!

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Simon Tucker @simonrtucker.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I accept that this comes from Garden Wildlife Direct but it is much more measured than the hysteria of the antis:

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Simon Tucker @simonrtucker.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

A friend of mine who lives just west of Cricklade, adjacent to the B4040, saw this on his pond yesterday, and sent me these photos. Great White Egret in breeding condition:

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Simon Tucker @simonrtucker.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Conservation & shooting are incompatible until they stop releasing 100 million Pheasant and 10 million RLP pa & stop leaving millions of carcasses in the land to feed general predators, & stop the illegal & immoral slaughter of native wildlife so the psychotic shooters have more game birds to kill.

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Simon Tucker @simonrtucker.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

After my post yesterday about the RSPB, ZSL and BTO starting a study on Trichomonosis at feeding stations and the decline of Greenfinch since 2005, this morning I received this report from the BTO Breeding Bird Survey. Coincidence?

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Simon Tucker @simonrtucker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Ravens are still uncommon in Wiltshire. I was privileged to ring the first ever brood of four, when doing my Help4Heroes bit back in the day (the guys loved it). Unfortunately, thanks to the idiocy of Gove and the intolerance of farmers, one was later shot.

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Simon Tucker @simonrtucker.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

One of my more memorable moments was the first time I set out to catch and ring Snipe: first time I caught three Common and one Jack. The next time was astonishing: three Jack and one Common! Just around a pond on a local farm.

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Simon Tucker @simonrtucker.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Had a cracking good day today by the looks of it. This was back in 2016: only the second ever ringed in Wiltshire: a total fluke, but delightful.

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Simon Tucker @simonrtucker.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

We are lucky to have them in our garden on a regular basis. Including this beautiful beastie who blundered into one of my nets one day. She was lovely to handle, no rasping croak, just a little mewling sound. I had to nick a pillow case off the bed to weigh her in. Mrs T was unimpressed.

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Simon Tucker @simonrtucker.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I wonder what lies and excuses they will come up with to keep the funding from @nfudc.bsky.social coming in?

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Simon Tucker @simonrtucker.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Adult caught and ringed in the Firs in June of last year. We caught adult male and female in breeding condition both in the same session:

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Simon Tucker @simonrtucker.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

A very quiet slow bird ringing session suddenly became a good fun session. We were showing a nice, interested family of four some Robins, how to hold and release them safely when this arrived in the net nearest us:

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Simon Tucker @simonrtucker.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

and this is the angriest bird we ringed all year, just look at that face!

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Simon Tucker @simonrtucker.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Just the cutest bird I have ringed all year:

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Simon Tucker @simonrtucker.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I could have been jealous if I hadn't done this on Skokholm a few years ago: braydonforestringing.uk/2025/07/10/e...

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Simon Tucker @simonrtucker.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I was cleaning green slime and some sludge out of my pond this morning when this came up in the net. It was huge: it could eat my Smooth Newts as a snack! I am presuming female Great Crested Newt: looked either pregnant with eggs or copying me!

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Simon Tucker @simonrtucker.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Don't get me wrong, I am lucky to work with a number of really good farmers, part of the @nffn.bsky.social, doing their bit to support local wildlife. Despite being lowland, surrounded by pheasant shoots, we have two farms where both Curlew & Lapwing are breeding successfully:

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Simon Tucker @simonrtucker.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Our fifth SPOFL ever in the Firs and only our eighth in the Braydon Forest

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Simon Tucker @simonrtucker.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Decided not to ring this otherwise lovely Chaffinch

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Simon Tucker @simonrtucker.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Out on Salisbury Plain on Saturday checking owl boxes I got this photo of a moth, 6-Spot Burnet, that I never seem to find sitting still, so pleased to get this

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Simon Tucker @simonrtucker.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I wonder when they dug him up?

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Simon Tucker @simonrtucker.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A little ego-boost for me on a Monday morning: the reach of my little ringing blog is quite astonishing. All countries coloured blue have had at least one read: braydonforestringing.uk

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Simon Tucker @simonrtucker.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

You posted this and, as a long-standing subscriber, and conservationist opposed to the criminals of the shooting industry, I was looking forward to seeing you publish the others!