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wendy-james.bsky.social @wendy-james.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

New Teifi Ringing Group blog with news of our earliest Firecrests, the start of the lamping season and some movements including a Sedge Warbler from the Teifi Marshes to Spain #birdringing #birdingWales teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com/2026/10/fire...

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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 · 30/06/2025

We seem to be having better results in the Irish Sea.. 60 Storm Petrels over 4 nights caught at Strumble Head #birdringing

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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 · 19/06/2025

A familiar ring number Rob...ringed by Teifi Ringing Group at Strumble Head last year on July 14th. #birdringing

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wendy-james.bsky.social @wendy-james.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I have found a picture of the 9 year old Great Spotted Woodpecker with extensive brown and poor quality feathers. Taken when retrapped in January #birdringing

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wendy-james.bsky.social @wendy-james.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

No pictures of the very old one but this one ringed in 2020 and caught this April also had some brown feathers particularly the primary coverts and 2 of the alula feathers.

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wendy-james.bsky.social @wendy-james.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

The oldest bird in my garden this year was also a Great Spotted Woodpecker, ringed in 2016 and only seen in three of the years since then. Strangely, all of the primaries and secondaries were brown.

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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 · 24/03/2025

We were fascinated watching this over the Teifi Marshes tonight. Thanks for the explanation

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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.

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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 Head

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wendy-james.bsky.social @wendy-james.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Most of the Starlings we have re-encountered with rings have been at garden feeders either in Potter traps or mist nets

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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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wendy-james.bsky.social @wendy-james.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Thanks Martin. I am a complete Bluesky novice so a lot to learn I'm sure.

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