Carlton Marsh

Today's amazingly warm sunny day was very close to my all time record for February at 17.5c (garden) just .5c short. 

On the wader scrape 40 Herring Gulls, 21 Canada Geese, 7 Greylag Geese and a Fox. Elsewhere Goldcrest 2 singing, Siskin, 2 Song Thrush singing, Buzzard and GS Woodpecker 'drumming'. (DM Smith).

Butterflies on the wing were 7 Comma, 2 Peacock and 2 male Brimstone (Chris Parkin) 

I saw my first 'White', either Green Veined or Small White, it didn't land (CG).

Cudworth Common
5 Skylarks, 12 Meadow Pipits, Redshank and 4 Brown Hares in Symphony.

Edderthorpe Flash
2 drake Pintails and a Brimstone butterfly. (Les Corrall & Ralph Hibbert)

Last week Cudworth birder, Richard Laverack found a leg of a dead bird on the shore line at South Gare. The black leg had no feet, but it did bear a white darvic ring with the black letters HND. This bird was traced with the help of Kane Brides and below is the information from the BTO.

Ringing Scheme: London Ring Number: 1494000 Species of bird: Shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis)

This bird was ringed by Isle Of May Bird Observatory as age nestling, sex unknown on 22-Jul-2018 time unknown at Isle of May, Fife, UK

OS Map reference NT6599 accuracy 0, - co-ordinates 56deg 10min N -2deg -33min W accuracy 0.

Colour Marks left below knee WN(HND)
  

It was found on 14-Feb-2019 time unknown at South Gare, Redcar, Redcar & Cleveland, UK

OS Map reference NZ5527 accuracy 0, - co-ordinates 54deg 37min N -1deg -8min W accuracy 0.

Finding condition: Dead, no Information about How Long

Finding circumstances: Leg & Ring Only Found

Extra Information: CR only found.
It was found 207 days after it was ringed, 195 km from the ringing site, direction SSE.