Rye Meads Ringing Group

Studying the birds of Rye Meads since 1960!

[Rye Meads Ringing Group @ryemeadsrg]

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[Rye Meads Ringing Group @ryemeadsrg]

The Rye Meads Ringing Group has been studying the birds of Rye Meads, in Hertfordshire, since 1960. We are all volunteers whose mission it is to study the birds and other wildlife at this special place.

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[Rye Meads Ringing Group @ryemeadsrg]

Night Heron spotted flying north over Rye Meads at 09:20 this morning by keen-eyed @AH_birdartist!

@BirdGuides @Hertsbirds

[Rye Meads Ringing Group @ryemeadsrg]

Featuring Rye Meads!!

🔗https://t.co/K3wtiVnu2s

@RSPBRyeMeads @Hertsbirds @HMWTBadger

[Rye Meads Ringing Group @ryemeadsrg]

G'wan Matt Wallace!! 😍💥🥳

[Rye Meads Ringing Group @ryemeadsrg]

@RSPBRyeMeads @chrisgibson34 @AH_birdartist Fantastic! 😍

[Rye Meads Ringing Group @ryemeadsrg]

Wowza!!!

[Rye Meads Ringing Group @ryemeadsrg]

@norfolkbirdtour @RSPBLakenheath @DaveRLakenheath Fantastic!

[Marcus Nash @norfolkbirdtour]

Guiding down in the Brecks/Fens again yday - we spent a very pleasant couple of hours at @RSPBLakenheath Fen. The ringed female Bittern flew past Mere Hide again, almost exactly the same place I have seen it here pretty much every year since 2017!

[Rye Meads Ringing Group @ryemeadsrg]

The gang have now recovered from a top weekend: Black-headed Gull monitoring & ringing (complete with bailing out the boat with a pint glass - classy!), rescuing an Egyptian Goose gosling, tit box checks & catching a retrap Green Woodpecker ringed on site as a juvenile in Oct'22!

[Rye Meads Ringing Group @ryemeadsrg]

@MurrayOrchard @smp_seabirds Of course! 🤣

[Rye Meads Ringing Group @ryemeadsrg]

Tonight we undertook our annual breeding survey of BHGulls at Rye Meads. With 133 occupied nests on the @RSPBRyeMeads reserve & 19 more on the Thames Water side, 152 in total. Around half of pre-bird flu levels. There's already 40 chicks - fingers crossed for a successful season!

[Rye Meads Ringing Group @ryemeadsrg]

@ShepherdWells @RSPBRyeMeads @chrisgibson34 @sehertsrspb Thanks! Have shared with the gang - they might start appearing! 😁

[Alan Harris @AH_birdartist]

Sad but interesting find. A Water Rail clutch 'crowed', Rye Meads, Herts. Some rare skills from the corvid to find the nest and remove six eggs, presumably one at a time, and neatly open them up. Turned over they look whole.

[Alan Harris @AH_birdartist]

2/2. Delighted to be out today with Rye Meads Ringing Group ringing Jack Snipe (under @_BTO licence), still thrilling after all these years……..