If you cast your mind all the way back to last Friday you may recall that I posted a picture of a ringed Ruff. After a spot of playing around with the image my wife Sandra and I managed to read the letters on the green tag adorning the bird's right leg. Having established that the letters were NPP I then had to trawl the net trying to find out where the bird may have been ringed. Luckily for me I saw images of a similarly ringed individual from nearby Stanford Reservoir and another which was slightly further afield on the Orkneys. Both birds were from a ringing project in Norway which allowed me the chance to narrow my search by quite a margin.
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My search eventually came up with an email address and the information was passed on. The response was commendably fast and I'll include the details provided in it here:
The bird, a juvenile female, was ringed at Blindheimsvikane in Norway by ringers Bernt Fredrick Blindheim and Eric Andreas Blindheim on the 21/8/22. Shozzer, Special K and I found it at Eyebrook on the 9/9/22 meaning that it had travelled 1155km SSW in 19 days. I wonder how much further it will travel to its wintering grounds?
This really does show the merit of photography, had I not taken pics I wouldn't have known the bird was ringed let alone where it had come from. Even poor quality photos can serve a purpose beyond illustrating the feeble scribblings of this blog!
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