This morning, I visited Wat Tyler Country Park as part of a Big County Birdwatch 2025 event organised by Essex Birdwatching Society and hosted by the South Essex Ringing Group. Many thanks to Matt Turner from the former and David Wilkinson from the latter for an amazing morning.
This was my second bird ringing session with the South Essex Ringing Group and again it was very enjoyable watching and listening to the team of qualified and trainee ringers as well as seeing so many familiar birds so close.
Our time observing the ringing session started at around 7:30 a.m. and concluded just before 11 a.m. but the ringers had been recovering birds from their mist nests and processing their biometrics for several hours prior to this.
In total, 56 birds were processed during the morning session. See here for the species list and counts.
My personal highlight was undoubtedly the stunning male Bearded Tit.
During the ringing session, we were able to observe the following: Bearded Tit, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Cetti's Warbler, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Wren, Robin, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Dunnock
The small number of people privileged to attend the session were able to take photos of some of the birds after they had been processed and prior to release.
Photo: male Bearded Tit
Photo: male Blackcap
Photo: Goldfinch
Photo: Wren
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