tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12043456871061711772024-02-28T15:43:38.438-08:00BTO CymruUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204345687106171177.post-268273974678777872021-06-23T03:43:00.002-07:002021-06-23T03:43:51.002-07:00Cogau 2021 Cuckoo's<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Cuckoos are essentially African birds, very much birds of
the tropical forests who venture north every spring to breed. Long distance
migration is full of hazards and many birds do not survive either the journey
north or the return home to Africa in autumn.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In 2011 the BTO started following Cuckoos on their
migration, initially to discover the routes they take, and where they went for
the winter. It was found that they winter in the Congo basin, and get there via
a route that takes them through Italy and across the Mediterranean into Libya
before crossing the Sahara. Some English birds take a more westerly route via
Spain and Gibraltar. It was found that the survival rates for both routes was
different with Italian birds surviving better.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In 2012 5 Cuckoos were tagged in the Tregaron are of mid Wales,
with David going on to complete 4 migrations back and forth to Africa. Sadly,
his transmitter failed in 2017 and despite looking for him in his summer patch
near Tregaron he was not re found. I would like to think he is still there and
that the equipment has fallen off.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This year another two Cuckoos were tagged in Wales. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">JAC was tagged at Worlds end near Llangollen on the
morning of 1<sup>st</sup> June. For
those that have been to Worlds end at dawn, it is a magical place with the
sound of lecking Black grouse in the distance and calling Red grouse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kelvin Jones from BTO Cymru got there early on
the morning and set up the catching equipment ready for BTO tagger Lee Barber
to arrive. Immediately caught a Meadow pipit and a female Sparrowhawk. Lee
turned up them and the cuckoo tape was put on, and before they had ringed the
Sparrowhawk a nearby male Cuckoo responded and minutes later was in the net.
JAC was named in memory of Professor Jenny Clack a world leading palaeontologist,
who was widely acknowledged as the leading authority on the evolution of land
vertebrates from fish. The name JAC was chosen by jenny’s husband who said “It
seemed appropriate I should contribute to this important scientific study of
Cuckoos in memory of a top-class scientist, whom I adored” JAC seems to have
started his southwards migration at the time of writing.<span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The second Cuckoo 50042 was caught at the RSPB’s Lake Vyrnwy
on the 5<sup>th</sup> June, by Lee and local ringer Mike Haigh. Interestingly
he has not begun his southwards journey yet but has twice left Vyrnwy and gone
to the outskirts of Llanymynech, Lee was brought up here so I wonder what he
whispered in the birds ear whilst tagging was ongoing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>50042 is as yet un named, so if you would
like to sponsor the name please go to <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/cuckoo-tracking-project">https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/cuckoo-tracking-project</a>.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LOHQX-JWOmg/YNMOjNz4JII/AAAAAAAACYg/29SeqMdGTZ0IEoYfIXtaSuQkO8IDP7wZgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1666/Fyrnnnnwy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="1666" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LOHQX-JWOmg/YNMOjNz4JII/AAAAAAAACYg/29SeqMdGTZ0IEoYfIXtaSuQkO8IDP7wZgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Fyrnnnnwy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <b> </b><b>50042</b> Photo Lee Barber<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It will be fascinating to see if these birds from a
different part of Wales will follow in the footsteps of David and his 2012 Tregaron
cohorts and go via Italy, or go via the English route and Spain.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For daily updates and more information on the project <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/cuckoo-tracking-project">https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/cuckoo-tracking-project</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="CY" style="mso-ansi-language: CY;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="CY" style="mso-ansi-language: CY;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="CY" style="mso-ansi-language: CY;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="CY" style="mso-ansi-language: CY;">Aderyn
Affricanaidd ydyw'r gog yn y bôn; aderyn y coedwigoedd trofannol, sy'n mentro
i'r gogledd bob gwanwyn i fridio. Peth peryglus ydyw ymfudo pellteroedd maith
ac nid yw llawer o'r adar yn goroesi, naill ai ar y daith i'r gogledd neu wrth
ddychwelyd adref i Affrica yn yr hydref.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="CY" style="mso-ansi-language: CY;">Yn 2011
dechreuodd y BTO ddilyn y cogau wrth iddynt ymfudo. Y bwriad cyntaf oedd i
ddarganfod y llwybrau y maent yn eu cymryd, a darganfod i ble yr ânt am y
gaeaf. Canfuwyd eu bod yn gaeafu ym masn y Congo, ac yn cyrraedd yno ar hyd
llwybr sy'n mynd â nhw drwy'r Eidal ac ar draws Môr y Canoldir, i mewn i Libya
cyn croesi'r Sahara. Ond y mae rhai adar o Loegr yn cymryd llwybr mwy
gorllewinol, trwy Sbaen a Gibraltar. Canfuwyd bod y cyfraddau goroesi ar gyfer
y ddau lwybr yn wahanol, gydag adar yr Eidal yn goroesi yn well.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="CY" style="mso-ansi-language: CY;">Yn 2012 tagiwyd
pum gog yn Nhregaron. Cafwyd bod y gog a alwyd yn David yn mynd ymlaen i
gwblhau pedwar ymfudiad, yn ôl ac ymlaen i Affrica. Ond yn anffodus, methodd ei
drosglwyddydd yn 2017 ac er chwilio amdano yn ei ardal haf ger Tregaron, ni
ddaethpwyd o hyd iddo. Hoffem feddwl bod David yn dal i ddychwelyd i'r ardal
ond bod yr offer wedi cwympo oddi ar ei gefn.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="CY" style="mso-ansi-language: CY;">Eleni tagiwyd dau
gog arall yng Nghymru.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="CY" style="mso-ansi-language: CY;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kADgs-PIwDA/YNMP-OwSgJI/AAAAAAAACY8/K5jxCkalps46tFLryJn4zZS7TwoSbdAPwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1823/JAC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1454" data-original-width="1823" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kADgs-PIwDA/YNMP-OwSgJI/AAAAAAAACY8/K5jxCkalps46tFLryJn4zZS7TwoSbdAPwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/JAC.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p></blockquote><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <b> </b><b>JAC </b> Llun Kelvin Jones<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="CY" style="mso-ansi-language: CY;">Enwyd un yn Jac a
chafodd ei dagio ar Fynydd Eglwyseg, Llangollen ar fore Mehefin y cyntaf. Bydd
y rhai ohonoch sydd wedi bod ar Fynydd Eglwyseg ar doriad gwawr, yn gwybod ei
fod yn lle hudolus gyda sŵn y grugieir duon i'w glywed yn y pellter.
Cyrhaeddodd Kelvin Jones o BTO Cymru yno yn gynnar yn y bore a sefydlodd yr
offer dal yn barod ar gyfer Lee Barber (modrwywr y BTO) ac, ar un waith, fe
ddaliwyd corhedydd a iâr gwalch glas. Cyrhaeddodd Lee a gosodwyd tâp o'r gog yn
galw cyn iddynt fynd ati i fodrwyo y gwalch glas. Yn syth, fe ymatebodd gog
gwrywaidd ac ymhen munudau yr oedd yn y rhwyd. Fe'i enwyd yn Jac er cof am yr
Athro Jenny Clack, palaeontolegydd blaenllaw, a gafodd ei chydnabod fel yr
awdurdod blaenllaw ar esblygiad fertebratau-tir-sych o bysgod. Dewiswyd yr enw
Jac gan ŵr Jenny ac fe ddywedodd “Yr oedd yn addas iawn i mi gyfrannu at yr
astudiaeth wyddonol bwysig hon o gogau er cof am wyddonydd o’r radd flaenaf yr
oeddwn i yn ei haddoli.” Ymddengys bod Jac wedi dechrau ymfudo tua’r de ar yr
adeg yr ysgrifennwn hyn.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="CY" style="mso-ansi-language: CY;">Daliwyd yr ail
gog (50042) ar safle RSPB Llyn Efyrnwy ar y 5<sup>ed</sup> o Fehefin, gan
Lee a’r modrwywr lleol Mike Haigh. Yn ddiddorol, nid yw y gog hwn wedi cychwyn
ar ei daith tua'r de eto ond y mae wedi gadael Efyrnwy ddwywaith ac wedi mynd i
gyrion Llanymynech, ble y magwyd Lee; tybed beth a sibrydodd Lee yng nghlust yr
adar wrth iddo eu modrwyo? Nid yw 50042 wedi'i enwi hyd yma, felly os hoffech
noddi'r enw ewch i <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/cuckoo-tracking-project" target="_blank">https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/cuckoo-tracking-project</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Llun Lee Barber<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="CY" style="mso-ansi-language: CY;">Bydd yn hynod
ddiddorol gweld a fydd yr adar hyn, o ran gwahanol o Gymru, yn dilyn ôl troed
David a'i griw o Dregaron yn 2012 gan fynd drwy'r Eidal, ynteu a ydynt am
ddilyn llwybr cogau Lloegr a Sbaen.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="CY" style="mso-ansi-language: CY;">I gael
diweddariadau dyddiol a mwy o wybodaeth am y prosiect ewch i wefan- <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/cuckoo-tracking-project" target="_blank">https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/cuckoo-tracking-project</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204345687106171177.post-43302404936474206562021-05-11T01:07:00.000-07:002021-05-11T01:07:05.384-07:00Croeso i Gymru Welcome to Wales<p> This week the BTO Cymru team welcomes Dr Callum Macgregor. Callum joins us from the University of Hull. Callum has already taken some tentative steps learning welsh , which will be become a lot easier after he finished relocating to North Wales. With Covid restrictions now easing I am sure you will soon bump into him at various sites and hoefully in the autumn when the conference season hopefully getting back on track. Croeso i Gymru Callum.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YnmAR8SRx60/YJo5vqC4QNI/AAAAAAAACWw/yWJoHK-JLNsw3KMQAqXWrtuEev6DClQ4QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Calum.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YnmAR8SRx60/YJo5vqC4QNI/AAAAAAAACWw/yWJoHK-JLNsw3KMQAqXWrtuEev6DClQ4QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Calum.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div>I have been a keen birder since childhood, inspired in part by several formative years spent living in New Zealand. I've since developed interests in a range of other taxa - particularly butterflies, moths, and more recently hardy orchids. A return visit to NZ in 2006 - specifically, a day trip to the offshore predator-free sanctuary of Tiritiri Matangi - convinced me to pursue a career as a conservation ecologist. Since then, I completed my PhD at Newcastle University, studying how light pollution at night affects the role of moths as pollinators, and two subsequent postdoctoral research positions in Yorkshire investigating the impacts of climate change on butterflies (York) and the ecological value of brownfield sites to birds, plants, and insects (Hull) respectively, before joining BTO Cymru as a Research Ecologist in May 2021. Outside of work hours, I am a keen cyclist and hill-walker, and an amateur wildlife photographer (some would say VERY amateur!).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;" /></div><p><br /></p>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204345687106171177.post-34841011246290035862020-10-20T08:57:00.002-07:002020-10-20T08:57:24.898-07:00Greenland white-front geese Yr wydd dalcen wen yr Ynys Las<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">BTO Cymru are part of a Welsh Irish
project called ECHOES which seeks to understand how climate change will impact
coastal bird habitat of the Irish Sea (in particular that of Curlew and
Greenland White-Fronted Geese), and what effect this could have on our society,
economy, and shared ecosystems</span><o:p></o:p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>As a part of the project we would like to be informed of any
sightings of Greenland white-fronted geese as they arrive back and settle for
the winter. Historically they were well distributed across Wales but in recent
decades numbers have declined, with the wintering flock on the Dyfi estuary and
small numbers on Anglesey, being our only wintering regulars. However, birds do turn up in unexpected
places and we are very much interested in these additional sites, with a view
to studying the local geography, land use and feeding habits of the geese.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">So can we at BTO Cymru invite you to become involved in this
project by asking you to notify <a href="mailto:kelvin.jones@bto.org">kelvin.jones@bto.org</a> of any sightings of Greenland white-fronted
geese over the next few months. Multiple
reports of the same birds are welcome, better to have to many sightings than
miss one.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>For more information about the whole project go to <a href="https://echoesproj.eu/">https://echoesproj.eu/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-euWjOR_0YH4/X48IGZebV9I/AAAAAAAACNU/QfAxGmM0O9snjqPg28HLumC5jFvnzFDQwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/BTO-2019-B11-Edmund-Fellowes--1725_2_original.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-euWjOR_0YH4/X48IGZebV9I/AAAAAAAACNU/QfAxGmM0O9snjqPg28HLumC5jFvnzFDQwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/BTO-2019-B11-Edmund-Fellowes--1725_2_original.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Photo Edmund Fellows</span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="CY" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: CY; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Mae BTO Cymru yn rhan o brosiect ar y cyd rhwng
Cymru ac Iwerddon o'r enw ECHOES. Bwriad y prosiect yw ceisio deall sut y bydd
newid yn hinsawdd yn effeithio ar gynefin adar arfordirol Môr Iwerddon (yn
enwedig y Gylfinir a Gwyddau Talcen Wen yr Ynys Las) a pha effaith y gall hyn
ei gael ar ein cymdeithas, ein economi, ac ar yr ecosystemau a rennir<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: #222222;">Fel rhan o'r prosiect, hoffem gael gwybod am unrhyw
wyddau talcen wen yr Ynys Las wrth iddynt gyrraedd yn ôl ac ymgartrefu am y
gaeaf. Yn hanesyddol yr oeddent wedi'u dosbarthu'n dda ledled Cymru ond yn
ystod y degawdau diwethaf y mae eu niferoedd wedi syrthio, a bellach dim ond yr
haid sy’n dod i aeafu ar aber yr Afon Dyfi ac rhyw ychydig a ddaw i Ynys
Môn, yw yr unig rai a welwn y gaeafu yma’n gyson. Fodd bynnag, y mae’r adar
weithiau i’w gweld mewn lleoedd annisgwyl ac mae gennym ddiddordeb mawr mewn
cael gwybod am y safleoedd ychwanegol hyn, gyda'r bwriad o astudio
daearyddiaeth leol, y defnydd o’r tir ac arferion bwydo'r gwyddau.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: #222222;">Felly, hoffai BTO Cymru eich gwahodd i gymryd rhan
yn y prosiect hwn drwy ofyn i chi hysbysu </span><a href="mailto:kelvin.jones@bto.org" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">kelvin.jones@bto.org</span></a><span style="color: #222222;"> am
unrhyw gofnod o weld gwyddau talcen wen dros yr ychydig fisoedd nesaf. Mae
croeso i chi anfon mwy nac un adroddiad am yr un adar - gwell gennym gael
gormod o gofnodion na’n bod yn colli rhai.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="CY" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: CY; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="CY" style="color: #222222;">I gael mwy o wybodaeth am y prosiect cyfan ewch i </span><a href="https://echoesproj.eu/">https://echoesproj.eu/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204345687106171177.post-5073533595165628012020-07-01T03:43:00.000-07:002020-07-01T03:43:03.402-07:00Colour rings, how your sightings can further your contribution to conservation<br />
Modern digital photography has become an integral part of
the modern birding scene, together with the quality of modern optics means that
the reading of colour rings is now easier than ever. Gone are the days when
only Mute Swans could easily be read, today birders and photographers are
reading and hopefully submitting their sightings to the relevant project
organiser either directly or <a href="https://www.bto.org/how-you-can-help/report-something?utm_source=BTOCymru_blogspot&utm_medium=referal&utm_campaign=ringing_colour_ring">via
the BTO</a>.<br />
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I got involved in colour ringing and subsequently general
ringing in the early 1990s. At that time I was an old school beat policeman
spending a lot of my time walking round my then patch of Porthmadog. Of course
having a bit of a passing interest in birds you noticed a lot whilst walking
about talking to people and it became apparent that the numbers of Mute swans
built up in the harbour during the summer and dispersed again in winter. As was
the case in those days any problems with anything and the police station was
first port of call and many a time have I spent helping the harbourmaster with
Mute swans caught up in crab lines etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
soon became very obvious that a number of these Mutes had coloured darvics on
them and that they had been ringed at various locations across north Wales.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Step forwards to an eventful morning I was
crossing the harbour bridge and there were a number of young person’s there
looking at a seabird in the river channel. I stopped to ask what was there, and
was pointed out the Black Guillemot. I got chatting to the chap in charge of
what was an RSPB work experience party, and got on the subject of the ringed
swans. Well it transpired that his partner, a certain Adrienne Startford, was a
ringer and no doubt could be persuaded to ring a few more swans if we could
help with the cost of plastic rings, and so began my ringing career! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Today I am the Development and Engagement Officer for BTO
Cymru having retired from my previous employment some 16 years ago, and for 25+ years
have been involved in many colour ringing schemes; Chough, Ring ouzel, Osprey,
Red kite, and my own project on Twite. Over the past few years on my travels across
Wales talking to various groups, one of my popular topics has been “has new
Technology made traditional ringing redundant?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I am sure many ringers have been told that with all this new-fangled
satellite stuff we won’t need to ring birds anymore, but the truth is when we fully
explain what we can get from ringing they soon change that opinion. A big part
of the talk is how a simple and relatively inexpensive colour ring can really
enhance your ringing project. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The Mute swan study we did in north Wales proved a big moult
migration into north Wales from south Lancashire, and even the Severn valley.
Where this flock gathered to moult depended on where the residents were
breeding that year, so in some years large numbers were in the mouth of the
Ogwen near Bangor, other years in the river in front of the castle at
Caernarfon and others at the Foryd. Most of the resightings were undertaken by
a number of regular watchers who got really attached to their swans now they
were easily identified individuals. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
key to keeping these dedicated watchers was consistent and prompt feedback. The myth that they
mate for life was soon disproved amongst the local breeders with some behaviour
making Eastenders look tame.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My own Twite project started in partnership with RSPB’s
Twite recovery project in Nant Francon. In the first year I started colour
ringing I dramatically increased the estimate of breeding Twite in the area and
later that winter, with thanks to a local photographer, some of my colour
ringed birds were sighted near Flint castle. Some of the coastal wintering
birds were then colour ringed and from them and retraps of other people’s birds
we found that the majority of the coastal wintering birds from Anglesey eastwards
were Scottish birds and that the majority of our welsh breeding population winter eastwards on the Dee estuary, with one moving as far as Thornham in Norfolk for the
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If you are a keen follower of the expanding Welsh Osprey
population and follow them on social media, then most of the identification and
stories are generated by the colour rings we fit before they fledge. Yes they
have had £3000 satellite technology on some individuals, but all the family
history and sightings are achieved through the placing of a £2 engraved plastic
ring and your efforts.<br />
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There exists across Wales a number of colour ringing schemes
and all the project leaders put in a lot of time and effort looking for and
following up on sightings of their colour ringed birds. Adrienne Stratford and
Tony Cross’ long running Cough project engages with many people and
photographers across Wales and beyond, and has made a huge contribution to the conservation of Chough
across Wales, and the policy decisions made by Welsh Government. Again the
secret here is to provide feedback promptly and accurately. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So if you are just a regular birder or photographer and you
get sightings or shots of colour ringed birds please follow up by informing
somebody. You may not know who runs the scheme but Facebook and other social
media are a great way of finding out plus www.cr-birding.org. Don’t think that
somebody else has already done it, as there is often a big turnover at some of
these regular sites. A classic case being the Chough flock on the Little Orme
at Llandudno. The birds seen feeding during the day are not the same birds that
roost on the cliffs there overnight……..<br />
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In addition, Curlew are in crisis and
any sightings of ringed birds are vital to help understand their conservation
needs. Facebook is currently helping spread this message with sightings of returning
birds from the north Wales moors regularly coming in.<o:p></o:p><br />
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A number of north Wales based birders have set up a WhatsApp
group and regularly check the high tide roosts on the north Wales coast. Their
sightings of Sandwich terns have shown the importance of the southern Irish Sea
for these birds with birds from the north east of England, southern Ireland and
Scotland all being recorded on passage in autumn. Their activities have now
expanded to migrant waders and gulls and they have built up a network of
contacts with all sightings being followed up and group members updated.
Fascinating stuff and of great use to conservation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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in Wales: Mute
Swans, Whooper swans, Osprey, Chough, Hawfinch, Twite, Ring ouzel, Turnstone,
Sandwich Terns, Little terns, Ringed Plover, Curlew, Dipper, Yellowhammer,
Stonechat, Herring gulls, Lesser black-backed Gulls, Greater Black backed
gulls, Rock pipit<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>……………….<o:p></o:p></div>
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BTO web site here.</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204345687106171177.post-22531276206589820112020-01-08T08:03:00.001-08:002020-01-08T08:03:05.139-08:00Why count Herons? Pam bod angen cyfrif crëhyrod?<br />
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/heronries-census/about-heronries-census" target="_blank">The BTO Heronries Census</a></span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> began in 1928 as a one-off investigation for
the journal British Birds but has matured into an annual survey
still ongoing more than 80 years later. Its Grey Heron data represent
the longest-running monitoring data set for any breeding bird in the
world.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Yn 1928, gwnaeth y <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/heronries-census" target="_blank">BTO gyfrifiad o’r crëyr glas </a>ar gyfer y cyfnodolyn <i>British Birds</i>. Ymchwiliad unwaith ac am byth oedd hwn i fod, ond y mae wedi aeddfedu i fod yn arolwg blynyddol, sy'n dal i gael ei gynnal dros 80 mlynedd yn ddiweddarach. Eu set o ddata am y crëyr yw’r set monitro mwyaf cynhwysfawr ar gyfer unrhyw aderyn bridio yn y byd erbyn hyn.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The simple aim of the Heronries Census is to
collect counts of 'apparently occupied nests' (aon) of herons, egrets,
cormorants <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and other colonial waterbirds
from as many heronries as possible in the United Kingdom each year.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Nod syml Cyfrifiad y Crëyr Glas yw casglu cyfrifiad o’u 'nythod ymddangosiadol' (h.y. rhywle ble y mae’n edrych yn debygol bod nyth yno eleni). Yr adar dan sylw yw’r crëyr glas, crëyr bach, bilidowcar ac adar dŵr tiriogaethol eraill, a gobeithir cofnodi cynifer o grëyrfeydd â phosibl bob blwyddyn yn y Deyrnas Unedig.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Many heronries hold a dozen or more nesting
pairs, even a hundred or more, and occupy traditional, well-known sites
that are active for many decades, and some of the heronries in the census are
known to date back to the nineteenth century. Smaller and shorter-lived
heronries must also be included in the counts, however, to ensure that the data
represent the whole population. Even single nests of any of the normally
colonial heron or egret species are relevant to the Heronries Census, even if
only occupied for one season.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Mewn llawer i grëyrfa, ceir dwsin neu fwy o barau yn nythu, ond weithiau ceir hyd at gant neu fwy. Ar y cyfan, y mae eu safleoedd nythu yn bur sefydlog - maent yn aros yn yr un llefydd am ddegawdau ac y maent felly yn llefydd eithaf hysbys. Mae rhai o'r crëyrfeydd yn y Cyfrifiad yn dyddio'n ôl i'r bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg. Fodd bynnag, mae yn rhaid cynnwys crëyrfeydd llai a rhai ‘dros dro’ yn y Cyfrifiad, er mwyn sicrhau bod y data'n cynrychioli'r boblogaeth gyfan. Dylid cynnwys hyd yn oed nythod sengl unrhyw un o deulu’r crëhyrod yn y Cyfrifiad - hyd yn oed os mai dim ond am un tymor y maent yno. Mae newidiadau yn nifer y nythod dros amser yn fesur clir o dueddiadau eu poblogaeth. Po fwyaf o grëyrfeydd y gellir eu cyfrif bob blwyddyn, y mwyaf sicr y gallwn fod o dueddiadau poblogaeth ar raddfa genedlaethol, rhanbarthol a lleol. </span></div>
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clear measure of population trends. The more heronries that can be counted
each year, the more certain we can be of population trends at national,
regional and local scales. The Welsh trend is similar to the <a href="https://app.bto.org/birdtrends/species.jsp?year=2019&s=grehe">UK
trend</a>, although the Welsh trend begins in 1934 due to insufficient coverage
in the first few years, with the effects of severe cold </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">weather on herons
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the country with good coverage in well inhabited parts of the country and no so
in others. If you feel you would like to take part in this very long
running survey, it’s only a couple of visits to your local heronry every
spring, and some data entry. If however you feel you would like to do more we
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will be negative, these confirmed ‘zero counts’ are just as important to us as
counts from active sites when it comes to ensuring our population estimates are
accurate. Even if herons are no longer present, we are sure that many of the sites
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details go to the BTO web pages </span><a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/heronries-census/about-heronries-census" target="_blank"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">About Heronries Census</span></a><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> pages. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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saw the 30th Anniversary Conference of the Welsh Ornithological Society at the
University of Aberystwyth. It was a huge success, with almost 150 delegates
attending, including an encouraging number of talented young ornithologists. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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presented with the society’s Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his
long term work on key Welsh species. His roll of honour is too long for this
post but for those who don’t know Tony is renowned and respected for his
expertise and knowledge gained from many long term ringing programmes. The go-to
man for Red Kites, Barn Owls, Chough, Curlew, Dippers, Hawfinches, Pied
Flycatchers, Kestrels, Ravens, terns, swans, Woodcock, and Nightjars across
Wales.</span><br />
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received the Student Award for his well-researched and highly topical work on
Pheasants and their impact on invertebrate communities in upland Wales.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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worthy of such a special occasion, with Iolo Williams reflecting on the past 30
years of birds in Wales and gazing into his crystal ball for possible scenarios
for the next 30 years – not all doom and gloom, but the threats to wildlife are
all too evident and present. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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outcomes from one of the country’s longest running studies – 47 years of
Guillemots on Skomer – and did his best to convince us that Guillemots were far
more lovable and interesting than Puffins! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I now know why a Guillemots egg is shaped as
it is. Although it’s almost invidious to identify one single highlight from the
conference, the mixture of poetry, passion and good science in Mary Colwell’s
presentation on Saving Curlews will live long in the memory of all who were
fortunate enough to hear and see this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">In the afternoon, an
innovative feature was Question Time, chaired by Steffan Messenger, BBC
Environment Correspondent, featuring a panel of Katie-Jo Luxton (Wales RSPB
Director), Andy Clements (BTO Chief Executive) and Mark Isherwood (AM and
active species champion for Curlew) and pertinent and topical questions from
the audience. The final session of the day was presented by Steve Stansfield,
Warden of Bardsey BO, enthralling us with highlights of the changing seasons on
this magical island. Has anyone in the audience actually seen 365 Grasshopper
Warblers, let alone all in one day!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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more photos and news from the day will be on the <a href="https://birdsin.wales/">WOS website</a> shortly. Next year’s conference
will be held in the south west of Wales and it will be some job to keep the
quality of the speakers up.</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We were
lucky with the weather, and caught a little over 500 birds in total, so the
trainees got to process an average of around 50 birds each. One of our team
managed 10 new species! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(see totals
below).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That having
been said, this course has consistently caught reasonable numbers of birds,
even when the weather has not been so kind. Wader dazzling and spring traps
provide flexibility if it is wet or windy – which in September is a greater
risk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Last but not
least, course organiser Kelvin Jones sends out a brilliant after-care package,
containing tips on ageing and moult, and a series of quizzes, certain to cause
hours of debate over a pint.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If you are
looking to choose a course, here’s why you should consider this one:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The philosophy is about learning and
having fun. It is distinctly non-competitive and friendly. So no one is going
to shout at you for making a mistake. It feels genuinely inclusive, with equal
numbers of male and female participants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There are only ten trainees on the
course, divided into two groups of five, which means an excellent teacher/pupil
ratio.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">You will be on the Gower Peninsular,
a spectacular part of the country. The 2019 course attracted attendees from as
far away as Norfolk, Liverpool and Yorkshire</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If the weather is bad, there are
alternatives to mist netting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The ringing programme is brilliantly
organised by Owain Gabb, with help from lots of Gower Ringing Group field
assistants, who open the nets, do all the scribing etc. Martin Hughes from
Northumberland and Justin Walker from the BTO were excellent tutors</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Accommodation is in bunk beds
indoors. Mostly dormitories, but some smaller rooms are also available. Basic
comfort, but great if you don’t fancy camping. Breakfast and dinner included,
for a very reasonable cost</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Gower Inn is 60 seconds walk from
the accommodation. What’s not to like??<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Brian
Milligan, course participant<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Species
Name</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ringed</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Recapt</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Blackbird</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">8</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">6</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">14</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Blackcap</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">65</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">66</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">32</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">33</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">65</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">3</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">5</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">8</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 6;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 156.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="208">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Chaffinch</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="80">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">3</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="72"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">3</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 7;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 156.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="208">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Chiffchaff</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="80">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">29</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="72">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">30</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 8;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 156.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="208">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Coal
Tit</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="80">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="72">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">2</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 9;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 156.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="208">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Dunlin</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="80">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">7</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="72"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">7</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 10;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 156.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="208">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Dunnock</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="80">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">8</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="72">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">7</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">15</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 11;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 156.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="208">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Garden
Warbler</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="80">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="72"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 12;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 156.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="208">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Goldcrest</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="80">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">6</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="72"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">6</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 13;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 156.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="208">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Goldfinch</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="80">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="72"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 14;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 156.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="208">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Grasshopper
Warbler</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="80">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">2</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="72"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">2</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 15;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 156.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="208">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Great
Spotted Woodpecker</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="80"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="72">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 16;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 156.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="208">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Great
Tit</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="80">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">10</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="72">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">9</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">19</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 17;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 156.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="208">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Greenfinch</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="80">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">23</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="72"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">23</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 18;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 156.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="208">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Grey
Wagtail</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="80">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">6</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="72"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">6</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 19;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 156.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="208">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">House
Martin</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="80">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">3</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="72"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">3</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 20;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 156.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="208">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Long-tailed
Tit</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="80">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">7</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="72">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">5</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">12</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 21;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 156.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="208">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Pied/White
Wagtail</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="80">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">11</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="72"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">11</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 22;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 156.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="208">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Reed
Bunting</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="80">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">4</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="72"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">4</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 23;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 156.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="208">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Reed
Warbler</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="80">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">18</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="72">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">3</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">21</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 24;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 156.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="208">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ringed
Plover</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="80">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">11</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="72"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">11</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 25;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 156.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="208">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Robin</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="80">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">14</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="72">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">9</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">23</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 26;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 156.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="208">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Rock
Pipit</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="80">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">13</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="72">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">2</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">15</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 27;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 156.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="208">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Sand
Martin</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="80">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="72"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 28;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 156.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="208">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Sanderling</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="80">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="72"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 29;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 156.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="208">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Sedge
Warbler</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="80">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">12</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="72">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">13</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 30;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 156.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="208">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Song
Thrush</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="80">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="72"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 31;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 156.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="208">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Stonechat</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 60.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="80">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">11</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.1pt;" valign="bottom" width="72"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="bottom" width="66">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">11</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204345687106171177.post-207027593612674102019-08-27T03:33:00.001-07:002019-08-27T03:37:37.623-07:00Llongyfarchiadau Congratulation <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"When planning our Curlew Day with the Snowdonia Society earlier this year we realised that it fell nicely after the 8th April's World Draw a Bird day (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dabday.com/&source=gmail&ust=1566987884020000&usg=AFQjCNHh8MuXnN04kXkuZxRPohjmuaPK4g" href="https://www.dabday.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.dabday.com/</a>).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> As such we challenged the local school children in Ysbyty Ifan to submit their best Curlew drawings into a small competition that would be judged on the day of the walk.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Moli Wyn Roberts was the ultimate winner, gaining chocolatey prizes in the form of Curly-Wurlys! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Additionally </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Moli had her drawing made into a short run of greetings cards (prize donated by Delwedd y Fran Stained Glass)."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Congratulations to Moli on a stunning piece of art.</span></span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204345687106171177.post-81802755199842916472019-07-26T01:52:00.000-07:002019-07-26T01:52:41.841-07:00Club Sandwich<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Henry Cook, Marc Hughes and Robin Sandham have over the past autumns been busy reading colour rings on Terns on the North Wales coast. Together with Sandwich terns from the colony at Cemlyn which has had a proportion of their birds colour ringed and with some of the Little terns from Gronant, add to our understanding and knowledge of how these enigmatic sea birds use the Irish sea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">STOP PRESS Danish ringed Sandwich tern found 25/09/19 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Follow their ring reading this year on Twitter using @BTO_Cymru, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Following a successful colour-ring
reading effort of Sandwich Terns <i>Sterna sandvicenis</i> at Rhos Point
(Caernarfonshire) in 2017, visits were increased from late July to early
September 2018 resulting in the most revealing year yet. The majority of birds
(80%) were reported at Rhos Point with three other sites providing the rest.
However, coverage and ease of viewing has a large bearing on this
result. During this period, it is thought the North Wales coast of
Liverpool Bay sees 1500-3000 birds roosting daily. A total of 123 sightings of
86 individuals were read across the sites in 2018 (41 and 32 respectively in
2017). The highest daily total was of 15 individuals read on 20/08/18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The closest colony and only breeding
site in Wales is at Cemlyn on Anglesey (52km away), however, ringing has only just started there this year. Colonies at Lady's Island Lake, Wexford, Ireland and
Hodbarrow, Cumbria were the origin for two thirds of all resightings. Later in
August, a higher proportion of birds from the east coasts of Scotland and England
appeared including a couple of Dutch-ringed birds. This indicates a
post-breeding movement of some North Sea birds presumably heading northwards
and around the top of Scotland in to the Irish Sea to feed up before continuing
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There were inevitably some notable
resightings elsewhere on the bird's migration. Most notably Red KND was sighted
at Rhos Point on 24/07/18 and seen at Strand, Western Cape, South Africa on
21/10/18. Assuming it took an inshore route to the wintering grounds, this is a
journey of nearly 14000km in that time. A number of other Sandwich Terns seen
at Rhos Point have been resighted in the cape region of South Africa. The oldest bird resighted was 4807 days old
(13 years, 1 month), Red ECL from Inner Farne, Northumberland and seen
subsequently most years in Scottish colonies. This individual has also been
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<i></i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204345687106171177.post-61620915245761753762019-06-27T10:47:00.000-07:002019-06-27T10:47:17.212-07:00Welsh University Students Bardsey Trip<br />
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Maintenance Trust, BTO Cymru and Bardsey Bird and Field Observatory, an event
was held for students studying at Welsh universities to get together with
nature, conservation and what’s out there beyond their doorstep as common
ground whilst staying at the Bardsey Bird and Field Observatory (BBFO) at the
end of April. The universities that attended were Aberystwyth, Bangor and
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what Bardsey has to offer; the stunning scenery, constant call of Grey Seals
and of course the ever-present reminder that there were a few thousand pairs of
Manx Shearwaters as their cackling call carried across the whole island
throughout the night. Whilst on the island we experienced practically
everything the British weather can throw at us, from calm days where the sea
was like a duck pond to gale force winds as Storm Gareth giving everything it
got, resulting on us being stranded on the island for an extra day, which in
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fiercely competitive bird-race and trivial quiz to Manx Shearwater ringing and
moth trapping, but what was so great about this week was that each student had
something to offer with their knowledge about the natural world, meaning
everyone came away learning something new, be it about the flora of Bardsey and
seeing Small Adder’s Tongue or delving into Lepidoptera and learning about
moths. What I can say is this trip was a huge success; it connected Welsh
University students who all had a common interest and placed them in one
location, long term friendships were made and most importantly we learned so
much from this week. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I’d like to thank Steve and the rest of the BBFO staff and warden team for
their hospitality. At least two students who came on this event are already
heading back to Bardsey over the course of this summer to help volunteer with
Manx Shearwaters. Finally, without the grant from the Martin Wills Wildlife
Maintenance Trust and hard work as ever from the BTO Cymru, this week would
never have taken place; let’s hope a similar event can occur next year<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Bardsey Welsh University Trip<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Conservation Student at Bangor University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bardsey Island with other students from Welsh universities was a great
opportunity to observe some of the Island’s ornithological specialties in a
stunning landscape. It was awesome to witness thousands of Manxies shearing
past the Island each day, and then be surrounded by their strange calls as they
return to their burrows each night. On top of the Island’s breeding seabirds
and chough, there were also plenty of passage migrants to be seen during our
stay, such as Whimbrel, various warblers, Tree pipits, and Wheatears. It was an
experience I won’t soon forget and has definitely piqued my interest in birds
and their conservation.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Applied Terrestrial and Marine Ecology at Bangor University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“The sound of the Manx Shearwater
colony echoing every night on Bardsey will stick with me for a long time and
was what really made the stay special. The week was spent doing numerous
activities, and was a greatly engaging ornithological experience for me. Taking
part bird ringing, doing sea watches, exploring the island to see what was
there each day was wonderful and helped boost my knowledge of how an observatory
is run and what the aims and objectives of an observatory are. I would highly
recommend this trip to anyone interested in conservation and ecology, the
island has huge amounts of history and is great for anyone interested in not
only birds but all nature!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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seabirds adorning cliffs and ledges and swirling about your boat - an image I’d
always thought unattainable for an average student, reserved for nature
documentaries and Springwatch shorts. I never thought I’d be lucky enough to
experience this in person, let alone the whirlwind of ecological experiences
that awaited me once we reached the island. The observatory has an owl shaped
pot, inviting guests to donate £1 for every ‘lifer’ seen on the island. I owe
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this trip incredible. I’d especially like to thank assistant wardens Sam and
Lewis, for being so astoundingly friendly and sharing their time, skills and
food with us. To see, unfiltered, what observatory life entails has been
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knowledge to heart as I figure out what I’m going to do with my future. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this. Brushing your teeth with someone you met that morning, wandering around
barefoot and dancing to bad music together as a stupidly big pot of pasta
cooks. Reaching truly unholy levels of grimy and smelly, as a team, really
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Of all Welsh birdsongs, to me, the curlew’s song is the most magical. Here in Wales it is a bird that breeds mainly in the highlands. Unfortunately, its numbers have fallen dramatically in the last thirty years. At one time it was quite a common bird during the breeding season and this is probably what is responsible for the fact that it is known by a number of ‘local’ names. Local names can generally be assigned to one of three groups; names that refer to the appearance of the bird, names that refer to its sound or names which refer to its nesting location or breeding season.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The standard Welsh name ‘<i>gylfinir’</i> refers to the bird’s long beak (‘gylfin’ = beak, ‘hir’ = long). In different areas of Wales, there are variations in this name, but all being very similar - <i>gylfinhir, glifinir, gilfainhir, Pegi big hir, gylfiniog, glifirin </i>and<i> glafinir</i>. It is also sometimes referred to as ‘<i>gylfinir fawr</i>’ (the addition ‘<i>fawr’</i> = large, differentiates it from the whimbrel).<o:p></o:p></div>
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Turning to names which describe its cry or song, we have <i>ciarliw, cwrlig, cwrlip, chwibannwr (</i>whistler<i>), cwliwn, cwrlif, cwrlin, whibanwr (</i>whistler)<i>, cyrliw</i>, and <i>cyrliwn</i>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There are two names that combine reference to the bird’s song and its habitat during the breeding season ‘<i>chwibanogl y mynydd</i>’ a ‘<i>chwibanog y mynydd</i>’ which translate as the mountain or highland whistler.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Turning to names that relate the bird to its nesting place or breeding area, the following names are used <i><span lang="CY" style="mso-ansi-language: CY;">cornicyll y waun</span></i><span lang="CY" style="mso-ansi-language: CY;"> (which is also used for the lapwing) and <i>cŵn Ebrill</i> a <i>cog Cwm Nant yr Eira</i>.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The name ‘<i>cŵn Ebrill</i>’ = dogs of April (a name which is also used for the whimbrel) refers to the period when the bird returns to its nesting area - the middle of spring. In the same way the lovely name ‘<i>cog Cwm Nant yr Eira’</i> = the Nant yr Eira cuckoo, refers not only to the time of nesting (which is the time cuckoo returns) but also locates an important breeding area in Wales, namely Cwm Nant yr Eira in Powys.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fel ffliwt hyfrydlais uwch y rhos<br />
Fel chwiban bugail a fo gudd <br />
Dy alwad glywir hanner nos; <br />
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Yma yng Nghymru aderyn sy’n nythu
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Ar un adeg roedd yn aderyn eithaf
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dosbarth; enwau sy’n cyfeirio at ymddangosiad yr aderyn, enwau sy’n cyfeirio
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Y mae’r enw safonol Cymraeg wrth
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ceir Y gylfinhir, gylfinir fawr(yr enw
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Mae’r enw cŵn Ebrill (enw a
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cog Cwm Nant yr Eira nid yn unig yn cyfeirio at y cyfnod nythu(sef y cyfnod pan
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Once again this spring we are planning on holding some member and volunteer days at various venues around Wales. These will be relaxed events where we will update participants on BTO’s activities across Wales, provide some free training, a friendly quiz, and (weather permitting) a bit of birding. They are open to all existing members and volunteers and anybody new who wants to get involved with the BTO for the first time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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.Saturday 24th March, Dyfi Osprey Centre, Machynlleth</div>
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Sunday 25th March, RSPB Conwy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Saturday 14th April, Pembrey Church Hall, Pembrey, Carmarthenshire<o:p></o:p></div>
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Further details and bookings please contact your Regional Representative or the BTO Cymru office. Prior booking essential to make sure we have enough tea and coffee. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Dyfi. <a href="https://www.bto.org/volunteer-surveys/regional-network/rn-directory/cardigan" target="_blank">Moira Convery</a>, <a href="https://www.bto.org/volunteer-surveys/regional-network/rn-directory/montgomery" target="_blank">Jane Kelsall</a>, <a href="https://www.bto.org/volunteer-surveys/regional-network/rn-directory/merionnydd" target="_blank">Rob Morton</a></div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204345687106171177.post-63624411775969055352018-01-23T02:06:00.001-08:002018-01-23T02:41:26.200-08:00Are you a young Birders in Wales<div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" id="id_5a67073132c0c0c60434066">
Are you a young birder aged between 18 and 25 in Wales?<br />
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BTO Cymru is offering a number of eligible young persons from or based in Wales a free place on one of our courses.<br />
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The BTO nationally delivers a programme of training events that cover a range of identification and survey techniques, including courses aimed at BBS and WeBS.</div>
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If you are interested please apply to Kelvin Jones at BTO Cymru (kelvin.jones@bto.org), detailing which course you would be interested in, and attaching a covering letter of why you should be considered for a place.<br />
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Final date for applications is 1st March 2018<br />
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<span lang="CY"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mae BTO Cymru yn cynnig lle am ddim ar rai o'n cyrsiau i bersonau ifanc cymwys sy’n byw neu sy’n dod o Gymru</span></span></div>
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<span lang="CY"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mae'r BTO yn genedlaethol yn darparu rhaglen o ddigwyddiadau hyfforddi sy'n cynnwys hyfforddiant ar sut i adnabod adar a thechnegau cynnal arolygon (gan gynnwys cyrsiau wedi'u hanelu’n benodol at waith BBS a WeBS)</span></span></div>
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<span lang="CY"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Os oes gennych ddiddordeb mewn cael eich hystyried ar gyfer hyn, anfonwch gais i Kelvin Jones yn BTO Cymru (<a href="mailto:kelvin.jones@bto.org" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">kelvin.jones@bto.org</a>), gan roi manylion am y cwrs y mae gennych ddiddordeb ynddo, ac atodi llythyr o eglurhad am pam y dylech gael eich ystyried am le.</span></span></div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204345687106171177.post-20323398701324253092017-11-28T06:53:00.002-08:002017-11-28T06:53:56.601-08:00New student ambassadors on the team<br />
We have had for the past few years had a volunteer BTO Student Ambassador at 4 of the major Welsh universities. All have been keen birders and have helped fulfilled my vision of giving students a taste of BTO Survey work, by organising talks, demonstrations, visiting student fairs etc. When I get contacted by now employed graduates who now wish to engage professionally with the BTO, I think success.<br />
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Whilst <a href="mailto:Emma-Louise.Cole@swansea.ac.uk" target="_blank">Emma Cole</a> continues to do a sterling job at Swansea, This year we have two new ambassadors.<br />
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At Cardiff <a href="mailto:RenalsT@cardiff.ac.uk" target="_blank">Talek Renals.</a><br />
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"I’ve had an keen interest in most aspects of ecology from an early age; but in relation to birds I would say that I gained most of my ornithological experience when I was on placement last year. I was working for an ecological consultancy called AECOM where I was fortunate enough to participate in CBC’s, transect surveys and a few weeks studying whooper swans in Northern Ireland<br />
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the birdlife in the broads and along the Norfolk coastline where I grew up. Since
graduating from my diploma I have gone on to become a bird ringing trainee, an
undergraduate in countryside conservation and president of the nature society
here in Aberystwyth. Although still toying with the idea, I would like to set
up my own wildlife touring business when I finish university so I can share the
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Once again this spring we are planning on holding some
member and volunteer days at various venues around Wales. These will be relaxed
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.Saturday 25th March, Gwernymynydd Village Hall, Mold. CH7
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Saturday 8th April, Pembrokeshire, Crundale Village Hall,
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Saturday 22nd April, Montgomery, Meeting room, Welshpool
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<a href="https://www.bto.org/volunteer-surveys/regional-network/rn-directory/clwyd-east" target="_blank">Gwernymynydd, AnneBrenchley</a> - <a href="https://www.bto.org/volunteer-surveys/regional-network/rn-directory/glamorgan-mid" target="_blank">Parc Slip - Wayne Morris</a>, <a href="https://www.bto.org/volunteer-surveys/regional-network/rn-directory/pembrokeshire" target="_blank">Crundale - Bob Haycock</a>, <a href="https://www.bto.org/volunteer-surveys/regional-network/rn-directory/montgomery" target="_blank">Welshpool - JaneKelsall</a>, <a href="https://www.bto.org/volunteer-surveys/regional-network/rn-directory/anglesey" target="_blank">Malltraeth - Ian Hawkins</a>, <o:p></o:p></div>
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10th May - Introduction to Bird recording. Snowdonia
National Park centre, Bala. Further details from the BTO Cymru office or Bill
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Sunday 14th May, Nest Recording taster. Rudry, nr Caerphilly. <o:p></o:p><a href="https://www.bto.org/volunteer-surveys/regional-network/rn-directory/glamorgan-mid" target="_blank">Daniel Jenkins-Jones</a></div>
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20–21st May - Royal Welsh Spring Festival. Come and meet
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8–10th September - All About BTO Surveys (residential)
Training Course at Dale Fort, Pembrokeshire: Learn about BTO surveys, their
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10 Mai – Cyflwyniad i gofnodi adar. Canolfan y Parc Cenedlaethol, Y Bala. Manylion pellach o swyddfa BTO Cymru neu Bill Taylor yn PCE Y Bala, ar 01678 520626.</div>
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to be nesting in the Glaslyn valley, in Snowdonia. As I was the local police
wildlife crime officer, and the coordinator of the local raptor workers, there
followed for me an initial period of elation, followed by exhaustion, and ultimately
depression, when the nest collapsed following an unseasonably heavy hour of
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Modern technology has told us so much about bird migration,
but, for population dynamics like this, colour ringing is still producing the
goods, allowing a legion of people to be involved and to contribute to this
project. As I say to all our volunteers, you may not think your little bit of
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BTO Cymru in partnership with RSPB Cymru fitted temporary
GPS-VHF tags to a small number of breeding Curlew on the north Wales moors. The
data provided by the tags has opened a window into how these birds use the whole
landscape during the breeding season, and after this success we hope to
follow-up with some more research in the future. The tags have now stopped
working and have probably already fallen off: and the birds are now leaving the
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You can help us link together summer breeding populations
with post-breeding movements and even wintering areas. Each bird was also fitted
with a unique colour ring combination, identifying them as individuals. Please
look through Curlew flocks wherever you see them, and let us know if you spot a
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204345687106171177.post-16061493360354001962016-06-29T01:17:00.001-07:002016-06-30T03:38:21.138-07:00Lady in Red<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
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years an apparent shift westwards in the range of Hawfinches in the UK. Parts
of Gwynedd and the Wye valley have become increasingly important for this
scarce woodland bird.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hawfinches. Last year they had 184 individual colour ringed birds in their
garden and over 1300 sightings in total. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Their reading of the colour rings has proved
invaluable with birds from the south east of Wales turning up in their garden.
Yesterday Trevor had a bird with a red engraved ring. Being quite
used to the usual local yellow rings and the white ones from down south, he
got rather excited, and as always managed a couple of pictures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A bit of quick internet detective work put us in
touch with Dr Stuart Sharpe at the University of Lancaster. To quote Stuart:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“ <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Wow - this is amazing! Yes, it is one of my mine
and the first sighting away from our study area in South Cumbria</span></span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">BC was ringed at Sizergh
Castle in Cumbria (our main site) as a juvenile female on 17th July 2015.
We have not caught many juveniles at all in the three years our project has
been running, and we actually radio-tagged this bird to try and get some information
about natal dispersal. I will check tomorrow whether we got any data from this
individual (some of our tagged birds disappeared without a trace).<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Thank you
again for a really amazing sighting, and for taking the time to get photos that
really clinch the ID.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">So watch this space for any further updates, and thanks to Trevor
and Chris for having to suffer all these Hawfinches in their garden, and more
importantly for all the effort that put in reading rings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">For more on the project see http://midwalesringers.blogspot.co.uk/<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It’s great to see that the numbers of birders taking part in the BTO’s </span><a href="http://www.bto.org/volunteer-surveys/nrs"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Nest Record Scheme</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> (NRS) is on the
increase. Volunteers for this important scheme, now in its 77<sup>th</sup>
year, find and follow the progress of individual birds’ nests across the UK,
collecting vital data which are used to produce trends in breeding performance.
These data help identify species that may be declining because of problems at
the nesting stage, and they can also help measure the impacts of factors such
as climate change on our bird populations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">But, despite a recent increase in volunteers, far more are needed and
there’s a real ‘call to arms’ for more people to take up nesting, particularly
here in Wales where more nest data are desperately needed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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recorders, submitting c.800 records annually. Keen to increase those numbers
and to put the Scheme on a more sustainable footing in the county, Trevor
Fletcher (Rudry Common Trust), Wayne Morris (Mid & South Glamorgan BTO Rep)
and I trialled a <i>Nest Record Scheme
Taster Day</i> at Rudry Common on May 8<sup>th</sup> this year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we felt that we’d learnt enough to be able to share the basics with
new-starters and, coupled with bags of enthusiasm, we could hopefully inspire
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media, we attracted 5 local birders to the event. We found this to be an ideal
number. It allowed us to work through the various habitats whilst staying close
to each other and enabled us to share any knowledge, hints and tips with them
as a group, rather than separately as individuals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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their free hazel ‘tapping stick’ (an essential tool of the nest recorder’s
trade), introduced them to the </span><a href="http://www.bto.org/volunteer-surveys/nrs/coc"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">NRS Code of Conduct</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> and to some basic
nest finding techniques, we were soon out in the field. We spent the morning
working through woodland, finding plenty of old, or this year's, Song Thrush,
Blackbird and Robin nests, but sadly no active ones. Nevertheless, it was still
a useful session because we were able to show the participants the best places
to look for the nests of these species. Wayne excellently put the theory into
practice by finding a Song Thrush on eggs later in the afternoon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Long-tailed Tit nests, a very recently predated Linnet nest (it was in pristine
condition but contained broken egg shells) and a Great Tit in a natural nest
hole. The latter allowed Trevor to show off his skills with an endoscope! We also watched a Willow Warbler busily
building a nest, which Trevor went back and found a week later containing eggs.</span></div>
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day with another short indoor session, where we shared information on how to
plan nest visits and complete nest records and had a quick game of 'name the
nest'. This involved showing images of various nests, a quick shout out to try
and name the species who’d built them and then sharing some tips about how to
find that species’ nest. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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one of the participants really does sum up being part of the Nest Record
Scheme: <i>"I thoroughly enjoyed
yesterday - it added a whole new dimension to monitoring bird behaviour.
Brilliant!”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tips and we will create an informal local NRS email group amongst us. We’d like
to thank the </span><a href="http://rudrycommunity.com/rct_whoWeAre.aspx"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Rudry Common Trust</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> for its support
and last, but not least, the event raised £50 for the BTO. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">An enjoyable day all round and fingers crossed that some, if not all of
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<i><o:p></o:p></i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204345687106171177.post-25648761506014781592016-05-13T02:08:00.001-07:002016-05-13T02:08:34.497-07:00Blue BS<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 12pt 0cm;">
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wonderful piece copied from the Dyfi Osprey project facebook page. This great
story deserves wider circulation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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friend Mr. Puw the farmer (looks after the buffalo in the winter for us) came
to see us a couple of weeks ago - he had found a decomposing Red Kite in one of
his fields in Aberhosan. The thing was - this kite had a Darvic leg ring.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a bit of investigative work, we've found a bit more out. The kite was ringed as
a chick on, wait for it, 8th June 1995!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it's our old friend Tony Cross (very young man back then) who ringed him at his
nest in Cwmystwyth over two decades ago. Blue BS was just short of his 21st
birthday when he was found and only a few weeks short of being the oldest
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of our egg-protection volunteers, Elfyn Pugh, lives close to Blue BS's nest and
has seen him raise numerous offspring over the years. Mr Puw has given the Blue
BS Darvic ring to Elfyn, who was quite emotional, understandably. "I
wouldn't sell this for it's weight in gold" he said this morning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you to Mr. Puw, Elfyn and of course Tony for all his ringing work. Amazing
story, amazing bird.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to the Montgomery Wildlife Trust, Dyfi Osprey project for the story, and to
second their thanks to Tony for what has been close to a life time of working
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204345687106171177.post-25625574966836010522016-05-09T02:29:00.000-07:002016-05-09T02:29:41.827-07:00Going home<div class="MsoNormal">
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On the 15<sup>th</sup> August 2015 a number of non-moulting birds
were caught and colour marked near Llanfairfechan. Usually the non-moulting
birds are of either Greenland or
Icelandic origin, who stop off in the UK to feed and fatten up before
continuing their migration to Southern Europe/west Africa.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At 09:50 on 4<sup>th</sup> May Jim Dustow saw a colour
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same morning the same bird was seen at RSPB Conwy by Steve Culley, feeding on an island in the
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This bird is currently crossing North Wales on it’s way
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SCAN would like to thank both Jim Dustow and Steve Culley
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204345687106171177.post-27857859456319184152016-03-09T01:42:00.000-08:002016-03-09T01:42:06.390-08:00What's occurin<div class="MsoNormal">
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<b>Saturday 2<sup>nd</sup>
April a talk to the Gwent Ornithological Society</b>. Work of the BTO in Wales, and update on the
Cuckoo project. Goytre Village Hall, Penperlleni. Starts at 7:30 and is open to
non-members.<br />
Further details’ <a href="http://www.gwentbirds.org.uk/indoor">http://www.gwentbirds.org.uk/indoor</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Sunday 3<sup>rd</sup>
April Rhosesmor NE Wales</b>. Come and meet the team. Keen to get involved in BTO surveys, want to
know more about getting involved in BTO survey work,, want to meet other
members and volunteers. 1:30pm at
Rhosesmor village hall, for refreshments with start at 2pm. Just off the A55 at CH7 6WF . Open to all, for
further details contact your regional reps either Anne Brenchley of Mel ab
Owain, or the BTO Cymru office 01248 383285.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Saturday 9<sup>th</sup>
April. </b><a href="http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/reserves/gilfach-farm"><b>Gilfach Nature reserve, Rhayader</b></a>. Joint meeting with the Radnorshire Wildlife
Trust at their stunning Gilfach nature reserve.
Come and meet the local BTO Cymru team. want to know more about getting
involved in BTO survey work, want to meet other members and volunteers. 8am for a Birdsong identification walk,
followed by general meeting at the visitor centre at 10:30. Come for either
session or both. Further details from
your regional rep Carlton Parry, the Radnorshire Wildlife Trust
http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/reserves/gilfach-farm , or the BTO Cymru office
01248 383285<o:p></o:p></div>
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just off the A55 for a Birdsong identification walk up the beautiful Aber
valley as far as the Falls. Prior registration recommended so we can contact you
if weather bad. Followed by: 10:30 meet at the Hen Felin cafe upstairs room for
a meet the team session, want to know more about getting involved in BTO survey
work, want to meet other members and volunteers. Come for either session or
both, open to all members, non members and any interested person. Further
details either Geoff Gibbs regional representative 01248 681936 or BTO Cymru
office 01248 383285. Note: No parking outside Hen Felin cafe.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>It is advisable to book your attendance at which ever event you want to
come. This will allow us to make sure we have enough refreshments, and equally
if there is inclement weather to be able to advise you before you set out for
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Show 21 -22 May</b>. Then team will be
in the Floral hall this year. Came and have a chat, we really enjoy meeting
members and volunteers and hearing how you have got on with your surveys. Not a
member or volunteers but fancy having a go, come and talk to the team.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204345687106171177.post-27902611234667536122016-02-16T00:15:00.002-08:002016-02-16T00:15:50.938-08:00Where do you come from my lovely<div class="MsoNormal">
On Saturday 23<sup>rd</sup> January the Ted Breeze Jones
Society were on a field trip to Penmon in SE Anglesey. Keen-eyed observers saw a
colour-ringed Curlew in a flock and the bird was duly photographed. Below is a composite of the same bird but
showing the colour rings on both legs, left leg black over yellow and right leg
green over white. So began the detective work…<o:p></o:p></div>
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It would seem that the bird was originally ringed by the
SCAN group on Traeth Lavan near Bangor on the 28<sup>th</sup> February 2009. He
was subsequently caught on his breeding grounds near Nordhorn, Germany on the
16<sup>th</sup> May 2010, where the colour rings were fitted. He has been back
breeding in this area in the intervening years.<br />
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technology, but proven and still vital, and relevant, colour ringing which,
despite being old fashioned, is still producing quality data. So keep looking
at those legs and reporting the colour rings. You never know just what an
important part of the jig-saw you might be completing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="CY">Ddydd Sadwrn,
Ionawr 23<sup>ain</sup> yr oedd aelodau Cymdeithas Ted Breeze Jones ar daith yn
ardal Penmon, Sir Fôn. Yn un o’r caeau gwlyb, yr oedd nifer o gylfinir ac wrth
edrych dros y lluniau a dynnwyd, fe sylwyd bod un ohonynt â modrwyau lliw ar ei
goesau</span>. Y<span lang="CY"> mae llun
cyfansawdd o’r aderyn er mwyn dangos y lliwiau ar ei ddwy goes - du uwchben melyn ar y goes chwith a gwyrdd
uwchben gwyn ar ei goes dde. Beth oedd ei hanes? Yr oedd angen gwaith
ditectif..</span>.<span lang="CY"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="CY">Ymddengys i’r aderyn hwn gael ei fodrwyo gyntaf gan grŵp SCAN ar Draeth
Lafan, ger Bangor ar 28<sup>ain</sup> Chwefror 2009. Cafodd ei ddal drachefn yn
ei ardal magu ger Nordhorn, Yr Almaen ar 16<sup>eg</sup> Mai 2010, a’r adeg
honno, fe osodwyd y modrwyau lliw ar ei goesau. Bu’n dychwelyd yn rheolaidd i’r
ardal magu yn y blynyddoedd ers hynny. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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T<span lang="CY">ybed
ble y bu’r aderyn hwn yn gaeafu ers 2010, ar Ynys Môn ynteu yn rhywle arall? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="CY">Nid yw’r defnydd
o fodrwyau lliw yn rhywbeth newydd nac yn defnyddio technoleg fodern ond mae yn
ddibynadwy ac yn parhau i ddarparu data sy’n hynod werthfawr. Felly daliwch ati
i syllu ar y coesau a rhowch wybod am unrhyw fodrwyau lliw a welwch. Wyddoch chi
ddim, efallai mai dyna fydd yr union ddarn o’r jig-sô sydd ei angen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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