We dropped off at Welney on our drive east, to Norfolk, most memorable for being impossible to use binoculars or a scope while wearing a face covering. Some Whooper's have already started to arrive but these remain some distance from the hide making it impossible to read any darvic rings. There was a large flock of Black-tailed Godwits resting on one of the islands and Chris managed to record some colour ring combinations.
Whooper Swans arrive on the reserve
Stonechat
A flock of Black-tailed Godwits (including a colour ringed bird - that cannot
be traced and maybe a ring short) rests up,
Of the four colour ringed birds, two were ringed in Iceland, one probably in England, and the fourth, maybe one we have seen here before that would appear to be a ring a short, as we could not find a specific set of codes last time, and are struggling with this one as well.
The details of ringing for the two Icelandic birds are:
Orange/Black - Yellow/Orange - 15.6.2005 Iceland,N Ice,Eyjafjarðarsýsla,Eyjafjörður,Kaupangur.
There was a six year gap of sightings between 2009 & 2015, but since then it seems to spend all, or some of the winter in the Ouse Washes area.
This bird seems to arrive intially on the Ouse Washes, then winters in Cornwall.