Curlew Country

We’ve recently received another exciting Jack Snipe recovery, this time from RUSSIA!! Unfortunately this one was also found dead, most likely shot but it was found in ‘poor condition’ so weather could have played a factor?! It certainly seems that Russia is a popular breeding ground for the like of our over wintering Woodcock and

On Thursday night Jane and I popped down to Ynyslas on the high tides for a session dazzling waders. There wasn’t a lot there other than several 100’s Oystercatchers (which we don’t generally catch by dazzling), a good few Redshank and a handful of Dunlin and Knot. Right at the end of the night I

Silvia and I headed out this afternoon, to a site where a flock of Yellowhammers, Chaffinches and Tree Sparrow were feeding on spilt sheep feed. We only had a couple of hours spare to try and catch them today, but it was heading down to see where best to set the nets, and if they

Well not if you’re a Woodcock anyway. Relative newbie, Chris Griffiths, has just had his first Woodcock recovery and it’s a really interesting one. The bird, ringed near Carno in Mid-Wales on the night of the 3rd February 2017 was shot in Nagygyanté, Mezőgyán, Békés, Hungary (1,886 km ESE) just 44 days later on 19th March 2017.