Common House Martin

Ornithologist, Birder & @_BTO C Ringer in the #AshdownForest and with the #CuckmereRingingGroup. 🇬🇧 British List: 196, 🪶 Life List: 478.

[Common House Martin @com_housemartin]

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[Common House Martin @com_housemartin]

Plumbeous Hawk, Masked Water Tyrant, White Whiskered Puffbird and Blue and White Swallow.

[Common House Martin @com_housemartin]

A fantastic end to the Ecuador ringing expedition at #RanchoTangaré resulting in a total of 352 birds ringed of 93 species! A brilliant start to the establishment of a permanent bird ringing station at the site. A big thank you to the ringers and support personnel involved!

[Common House Martin @com_housemartin]

#RanchoTangaré

[Common House Martin @com_housemartin]

Ecuador ringing expedition going extremely well with 75 species ringed over 5 days of ringing. Some colourful highlights below 🦜:

[Common House Martin @com_housemartin]

Black-faced Dacnis, Silver-throated Tanager, Blue Dacnis and Rufous Motmot

[Common House Martin @com_housemartin]

A great finish to the month at the #AshdownForest site today with a total of 62 birds - mostly lesser redpolls but also two Firecrests and some lovely looking Goldfinches!

[Common House Martin @com_housemartin]

A very short session before the rain came in at the #AshdownForest site resulted in a few more Redwings, Dartford Warbler and Lesser Redpolls 🙂.

[Common House Martin @com_housemartin]

Another decent morning of 30+ birds at the #AshdownForest site on Thursday! Big flock of Redwing about of which 9 were caught and another two Dartford Warblers! Of course forgot to take any photos 😶.

[Common House Martin @com_housemartin]

Chilly morning at the #AshdownForest site today, 20+ birds ringed. Still a few chiffs and blackcaps about but this Meadow Pipit was a first for the site! Somehow they eluded capture in 2023 🤔.

[Common House Martin @com_housemartin]

Short and quiet session today at the #AshdownForest site, but it did produce the first Lesser Redpoll of the year!

[Common House Martin @com_housemartin]

Another 30+ birds caught and ringed yesterday morning at the #AshdownForest site, shame the Sparrowhawk let go of the net as soon as it saw me!

[Common House Martin @com_housemartin]

Incredible morning at the #AshdownForest site on Sunday with 121 birds caught! Best day numbers wise yet! In no part thanks to 87 House Martin's who decided to be agreeable for once!

[Common House Martin @com_housemartin]

Another enjoyable morning at the #AshdownForest ringing site! 31 birds ringed mostly Chiffchafffs, Goldcrests and Coal Tits, but this Nuthatch made an appearance only the 2nd one ringed here.

[Common House Martin @com_housemartin]

A very sunny morning at the #AshdownForest ringing site! 28 with highlights of Sedge Warbler, Garden Warbler, Dartford Warbler and a handful of Swallows!

[Common House Martin @com_housemartin]

Let down by the wind forecast yesterday morning so birds were on the sparse side, but still managed a Swallow and Grasshopper Warbler making two new species for the #AshdownForest site!

[Common House Martin @com_housemartin]

A whopping 76 birds ringed today at the #AshdownForest Site! Mostly Chiffchaff and Goldcrests. But with nice handfull of Tree pipits and Stonechats to mix it up! Not bad for just me and 4 nets!

[Common House Martin @com_housemartin]

Couple of good Blackcap sessions with the #CuckmereRingingGroup over the last week with good numbers all round.

[Common House Martin @com_housemartin]

A very pleasant morning at the #AshdownForest Site yesterday with a decent catch of 23 new birds to boot, including this nice Stonechat!

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Another very quiet session at the #AshdownForest site yesterday morning with only 5 new birds caught! At least the Tree Pipit made up for the disappointing numbers!