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Birder and ringer sharing news from my home town of Cardigan and the Teifi area, Skokholm Island and Kartong Bird Observatory in The Gambia

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wendy-james.bsky.social @wendy-james.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A look back at the 2026 Storm Petrel season at Strumble Head on the Teifi Ringing Group blog. #birdringing #seabirds teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com/2026/09/stor...
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Storm Petrels - Strumble Head
Our highest total with 208 new Storm Petrels   ringed in 12 visits to Strumble Head   between 15th June and 7th August this year - 2026.  W...
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wendy-james.bsky.social @wendy-james.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Teifi Ringing group blog including news of a successful start to 2026 Storm Petrel ringing at Strumble Head Movements of birds received this month were unusual in that three had travelled far to the east. #BirdRinging @birdsinwales.bsky.social teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com/2026/07/stor...
Movements of Woodcock to Russia and a Starling to Belarus after ringing
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wendy-james.bsky.social @wendy-james.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
New Teifi Ringing Group blog with an update of May... warblers, RAS and CES studies and news of a Woodcock to Russia, a Strumble Storm Petrel at Porthgwarra and a Chiff from|Spain #BirdRinging #BirdingWales teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com/2026/06/warb...
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Warblers, studies and recoveries
Sedge Warblers   trickled through this May although no fall. 203 have been ringed this spring on the Teifi Marshes and 10 at Cors Caron. The...
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wendy-james.bsky.social @wendy-james.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Teifi Ringing Group blog. A slow spring in easterly winds on the Teifi Marshes. 44 White Wagtails on migration to Iceland, 95 Sedge Warblers and the first 8 returning Reed Warblers, one ringed in 2018 #birdringing teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...
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April - new arrivals, first juvenile..
April always a month of great expectations on the Teifi Marshes in our reedbed sites. Early April delivered with an early  White Wagtail r...
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wendy-james.bsky.social @wendy-james.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
New Teifi Ringing Group blog. A look back at January and some new recoveries . With the French ringing stations submitting their data we are now up to 15 movements of Sedge Warblers to and from the Teifi Marshes in 2025 #birdringing #migration teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com/2026/02/janu...
Movements of Sedge Warblers to and from the Teifi Marshes in 2025
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wendy-james.bsky.social @wendy-james.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The last week on the Teifi Marshes including a Little Stint and a first for the reserve, a Long-tailed Skua teifibirding.blogspot.com/2025/09/befo...
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Before September - Stint and skuas
Bird and other wildlife sightings from the Teifi Valley, the headlands from Cemaes to Mwnt and the sea
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wendy-james.bsky.social @wendy-james.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
August highlights from the Teifi Marshes teifibirding.blogspot.com/2025/08/augu... #birdingwales
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August highlights..from the Marshes
Bird and other wildlife sightings from the Teifi Valley, the headlands from Cemaes to Mwnt and the sea
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wendy-james.bsky.social @wendy-james.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Update of Storm Petrel ringing at Strumble Head, Pembrokeshire, this year #birdringing #walesbirds teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com/2025/08/stor...
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Storm Petrels...an update.
We have likely finished our catching season at Strumble Head, hoping several more movements to make their way through the system, including ...
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wendy-james.bsky.social @wendy-james.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
New Teifi Ringing Group blog including Storm Petrels at Strumble Head, first signs of breeding success at our CES site and a Reed Warbler on the Teifi Marshes that had been ringed in Belfast #BirdRinging @btobirds.bsky.social teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com/2025/06/stor...
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Storm Petrels and early breeding results
Mid June saw the start of our Storm Petrel ringing at Strumble. Over two nights we handled 18 birds, one of which had been ringed on Skokho...
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wendy-james.bsky.social @wendy-james.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Teifi Ringing Group latest blog with news from the Teifi Marshes reed beds and movements of our birds including a Woodcock to Russia, Sedge Warblers from France and Jersey and a wandering Bullfinch from Llangorse Lake #birdringing #birdingwales teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com/2025/05/reco...
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Recoveries and Reedbed arrivals
Sedge Warblers,  are mostly on migration not local breeders, and numbers peaked in the third week of April. Because of the good weather, fre...
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wendy-james.bsky.social @wendy-james.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Spring migration so far through the Teifi Marshes and other news... teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com/2025/04/mid-... 62 White Wagtails, over 150 Sedge Warblers including one ringed in Wiltshire and one with a French ring and the first six returning Reed Warblers from previous years. #birdringing #wales
White Wagtail ringed on migration to Iceland
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Ian Beggs @fatsnipe.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Welcome to the 9th year of ‘Wheatear Tales’; a diary of the Wheatear colour ringing research project on #skokholmisland via daily posts (previously posted elsewhere). One of our first pairs back are female C56 & male D63 - both 5 years old, exploring their 2025 territory. #ukbirding
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wendy-james.bsky.social @wendy-james.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
New Teifi Ringing Group blog teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com/2025/04/wade... Some wader ringing, spring arrivals and news of a movement of a nestling Grey Wagtail in a Dipper box from Carmarthenshire to N Devon #birdringing @btobirds.bsky.social
A Black-tailed Godwit in the hand after ringing
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wendy-james.bsky.social @wendy-james.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
New Teifi Ringing Group blog with an update of our early spring ringing and plans for the season ahead at our sites in West Wales teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com/2025/03/spri... #BirdRinging #BTO
Reed Buntings with colour rings to study adult survival
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wendy-james.bsky.social @wendy-james.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Well done to the Kartong Bird Observatory Gambian team 🇬🇲 They do so well with the number of colour rings recorded on the beach each week.
Roost on Kartong beach
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wendy-james.bsky.social @wendy-james.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
New Teifi Ringing Group blog with 2024 totals and movements teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com 29 of the 162 Storm Petrels encountered at Strumble Head were either re-encountered elsewhere during the season or had already been ringed at other coastal locations #birdringing #seabirds #ornithology
Movements of Storm Petrels to and from Strumble HeadRinging a Storm Petrel
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wendy-james.bsky.social @wendy-james.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The Teifi Ringing Group have several records of wintering Starlings ringed in Lithuania but this month an interesting movement was a bird caught near Lampeter. It had been ringed in a nest in Finland 2004 km away in May 2023 #birdringing teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com/2024/12/earl...
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Gill Lewis @gill-lewis.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Devil Bird Island - a story inspired by my visit with Teifi bird ringers to @skokholmisland.bsky.social Magical place - isolated, yet acutely brings home the understanding that everything is connected. Manx Shearwaters are one of my top birds - what are yours? Illustrated by Irina Avgustinovitch
Cover for Devil Bird Island by Gill Lewis , illustrated by Irina Avgustinovitch and published by Barrington Stoke. 
Image of orange tent on Misty island with swooping black birds - and girl with dog and toy puffin in header Illustration of man putting an ID ring on a Manx Shearwater while girl holds bird Illustration of two adults and two children looking in wonder at Manx Shearwaters arriving on island in nighttime Photo of people finding Manx Shearwaters to put BTO ID rings on.
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wendy-james.bsky.social @wendy-james.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
The food rich habitat of tidal Mangrove mudflats in The Gambia 🇬🇲 with abundant Fiddler Crabs for wintering Whimbrel. Offshore, numerous Ospreys fishing at dawn, passing Caspian Terns and a Pomarine Skua. The end of another brilliant 3 week research and ringing expedition
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