RECENT RECOVERIES

Amongst the latest batch of ringing recoveries received from the BTO are a dose of Lesser Redpolls moving around the Suffolk coast plus one ringed here on 1st Nov 2011 retrapped 8 days later 116km to the SSW of us at Dungeness. We don't ring many Common Redpolls but we now have several ringed here in the autumn that have been trapped later in the winter 72Km away at Brandon, West Suffolk - this latest one ringed here on 13th Nov 2010 retrapped at Brandon on 7th April 2011. A Blackbird ringed here on 10th November 2009 was found dead having flown into glass 275km away at Wervershoof in Holland on 2nd March 2012. A Robin ringed here on 29th October 2011 was found alive & released from a building it had entered 348km away at Damwald in Holland on 21st Feb 2012 - although Robin recoveries to Holland are not unusual the date that this one was recovered is as it's a tad early for spring migration & one can only speculate as to where this bird spent the winter.