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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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...

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