Carrying on from last year’s review, there have been some personnel changes this year. We are still a small group of independently minded ringers, with myself being the only trainer actively taking on new trainees. The group comprises four A-permit holders, four C-permit holders and I currently have five T-permit trainees registered to me, plus one other T-permit holder who has moved to the area and is working with me, but hasn’t transferred into the Group yet. Incidentally, Adam, who became a T-permit trainee this year, we were told by the BTO, is the second youngest licensed ringer in the UK.
To the numbers:
As you can see, this year we started to do a lot more on nesting birds, which is why I have split out pulli from ringed and retrapped. Jonny Cooper took on a tranche of Tree Sparrow nest boxes, alongside a number of woodland nest boxes, and also took on a number of Barn Owl boxes as an agent under my Schedule 1 licence. I continued with the Barn Owls in my local area plus, at the invitation from one of my local farmers, additional open nests, primarily Swallows.
And so to the birds that we processed:
Ringing In The Braydon Forest & Beyond 