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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
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...
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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September 6, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Update of Storm Petrel ringing at Strumble Head, Pembrokeshire, this year #birdringing #walesbirds
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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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August 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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...
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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June 28, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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...
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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May 29, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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
April 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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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
April 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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
April 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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
March 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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.
February 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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
January 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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...
December 11, 2024 at 7:12 AM
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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
December 1, 2024 at 9:36 AM
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
November 30, 2024 at 9:55 AM