Recent Recoveries
The details can sometimes take a while to come through to us, but here are some Recoveries that have been notified to the Group over the past two years.
A Tufted Duck ringed as a duckling in 2003 was shot in Russia in the autumn of 2006 - presumably it had fallen in with wintering Russian Tufted Ducks and simply gone back with them.
Also interesting was a Gadwall ringed as a duckling here in 2003 which was shot the following autumn in Italy, possibly the most easterly British Gadwall so far, but following the south easterly trend of such recoveries.
Another Gadwall was shot locally in 2007 ten years after we ringed it
A Jack Snipe ringed in December 2005 was shot in Bordeaux in France less than four weeks later.
Two Sedge Warblers ringed in the Summer of 2004 were both controlled within four days in August the same year at the same site in Seine-Maritime, France.
Another Sedge Warbler ringed in August 2006 was caught at Sandwich Bay in Kent ten days later, and two Reed Warblers also moving south in Autumn both were trapped at Beachy Head in Sussex, one in 2005 was a month after ringing, but one in 2006 only 2 days after ringing at Rye Meads.
Another Reed Warbler ringed as a juvenile in Summer 2006, and presumably fledged locally, was controlled in the Netherlands in June 2007, so presumably breeding there
Thanks to the colour ringing of wintering Chiffchaffs, a bird ringed at Rye Meads in November 2004 was sighted in Hampshire the following winter.
A winter Chiffchaff last seen in February 2005 was found dead in Denmark in April - interesting to think our wintering birds may be Scandinavian in origin.
A Garden Warbler finged as a juvenile in Summer 2006 was controlled in Belgium in Spring 2007
A Lesser Whitethroat ringed as an adult in the autumn of 2002 was controlled in Italy in Spring 2004.