Colour Ringed Black tailed Godwit Redwell Marsh

Black Tailed Godwit photographed on Redwell marsh in July 2009. Used here to illustrate a colour ringed bird on Redwell on 12 August - but would not sadly pose for the camera.

HISTORY OF THE BIRD, RINGED AS A BREEDING FEMALE IN NORTHERN ICELAND, AS FOLLOWS.
26.06.05 Ringed Langus Fljot Northern Iceland
28.08.05 Holkham Norfolk
30.08.05 Holkham Norfolk
01.09.05 Holkham Norfolk
20.09.05 Stifkey Norfolk
22.09.05 Stifkey Norfolk
25.09.05 Stifkey Norfolk
27.09.05 Cley Norfolk
29.09.05 Cley Norfolk
28.01.06 Santa Amalia. Extremadura. Spain
10.08.06 Cley Norfolk
30.06.09 Haganesvik Fljot. Northern Iceland
16.07.09 Snettisham Norfolk
11.03.11 Dundalk Bay louth Ireland
12.08.11 REDWELL MARSH HOLME NORFOLK

Another Hungry Caterpillar - Pine hawk Moth 30th August

With the Bedstraw Caterpillars shown in a previous post thriving under the tender care of the Warden, and growing to enormous size to the delight of visitors to the Observatory, this Pine Hawk Moth Caterpillar was discovered in the vegetation near the moth trap.

Autumn migration gathering pace

The end of August and start of September has seen a few scarcities at the Observatory, with an elusive Red-backed Shrike in the dunes, a fly-through Honey Buzzard and best of all 2 Wrynecks, with a long-staying bird in the NWT dunes and another ringed yesterday (2nd September), the 37th ringed at the observatory in its history and the 3rd consecutive year one has been trapped.