Please consider helping out by completing Timed Tetrad Visits or submitting Roving Records.

Sign-up online at www.birdatlas.net or contact Stuart Piner on 07976-201755 for more information.

Colour-ringed Tree Sparrows In recent breeding seasons Bob Danson has colour-ringed Tree Sparrows from his many nestboxes in the Pilling and Preesall area. He would like to find out more about the movements of these birds after the breeding season and during the winter months. All the birds have a red-ring over the BTO metal ring on the right leg and the colour of the ring on the left leg indicates the site. Please note the grid reference of the sighting along with, if possible, what it was feeding on and the number of unringed birds present in the flock. Please report all sightings of colour-ringed Tree Sparrows to Bob Danson.

Land-based counts of Common Scoters

What to record...

Date:
Location:
Start time:
End time:
Birds north:
Birds south:
Birds offshore:
Visibility:
Wind strength:
Wind direction:
Notes:

Please send your counts, copying the list of details recorded (see above) in an e-mail to Paul Ellis

Per Peter Cranswick 'The key things to record are the period over which you made counts, the numbers of birds flying in each direction and the conditions at the time, visibility as a measure of how easy it is to see the birds, wind strength (in Beaufort scale) and wind direction given that this may affect the birds' behaviour'.

All records are needed as soon as possible.

Colour-marked geese and swans

Please report all sightings of Darvic neck-collared and leg-ringed birds.

Click here for more details on colour-marked Pink-footed Geese

Please send records of colour-coded Bewick's and Whooper Swans through the Fylde Bird Club, to assist the organisers by avoiding duplication.