Saturday 14 April 2012

Colour-Ringed Coots : Cortonwood

There`s been a bird present on my patch since January of this year. And on the day of my initial sighting, i sent the combination & the photo (below) to Kane Brides (Lancashire) ;



He emailed me back to say that it was definitely one of his birds, but couldn`t give me precise details, due to the bird having lost one of its colour-rings.
Anyway, he was in Barnsley last weekend and he decided to drop into Cortonwood, where he managed to locate the bird and read the digits on the BTO ring (something i`ve tried to do on several occasions) and it turns out that the bird was rung at Crompton Lodges, Bolton, Greater Manchester on 27th December 2010.
And while Kane was at Cortonwood last weekend, he caught & processed 2 of my local birds. One of which i photographed yesterday ;


White BSI (the other one being White BSH). Be interesting to see if these stay put or wander elsewhere.
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3 comments:

  1. Martin Wells14 April 2012 at 10:18

    There was a Coot with a green ring on its right leg at Scout Dike Reservoir on 11th April.

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  2. Martin Wells14 April 2012 at 10:31

    Sorry - that should read left leg

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  3. Anonymous14 April 2012 at 17:19

    Martin, obviously Coots move more than first thought.
    The single colour rings would have 3 digits on them.

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