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East Glamorgan BTO EAST GLAMORGAN Summer 2020 HAWFINCHES NESTING NEIGHBOURS LOCKDOWN IDEAS YOUNG CONSERVATIONISTS MONITORING GULLS NEST RECORDS MILESTONE • Much has happened since our last newsletter. The Covid-19 outbreak has affected all of our lives, and will continue to do so over the coming months. We hope that this newsletter finds you in good health and looking forward to resuming birding and recording once social restrictions are eased. The lockdown has meant that almost all BTO surveys have been on hold or cancelled in Wales. There will be no Breeding Birds of Wet Meadows Survey this year; BBS and WeBS are on hold and ringing and nest recording can only be undertaken in your own garden until further notice. BTO is regularly reviewing its Covid-19 guidance to volunteers in response to government announcements, https://bto.org/community/news/202005-bto- and-covid-19. The good news however, despite current restrictions, you can continue to record birds and other wildlife by taking part in a number of BTO home-based surveys. Each one makes a valuable contribution to our knowledge of birds and their conservation. You can find out more about them in this newsletter. We have plenty to update you about other BTO activities in our region, as well as ideas about what you can do during this period of social restrictions and beyond. Please read on and thank you for SUMMER 2020 your continued support. BTO EAST GLAMORGAN A quarterly newsletter for members Wayne & Dan and volunteers in the Mid & South Glamorgan BTO regions. CONTACT US web: Contents https://eastglambto.wordpress.com twitter: @eastglambto Ideasforlockdown3 ProjectHawfinch4 Wayne Morris Chaffinchesdisappearing5 BTO Regional Representative email: [email protected] NestingNeighbours6 BBStraining 7 Dan Jenkins-Jones Monitoring gulls 8 BTO Regional Ambassador WeBS Local Organiser Ringingreports9 email: [email protected] Microplasticsandbirds10 JoinGardenBirdWatchforfree 10 Images are the copyright of BTO, except Hawfinch (Colin Harvey), Futureconservationists11 Mediterranean Gull (@Alannah), Yellow-legged Gull (Peter Howlett), Nestrecordingmilestone12 Robin (Dylan Foster Evans), students (USWOS). Ideas for lockdown A free and convenient way of BirdTrack. Your data, new or Many respondents to our safely storing and managing historic, make a valuable questionnaire, sent to BTO bird records online in an contribution to conservation at members and supporters accessible and interactive local, regional and national last autumn, said they would format, BirdTrack remains open levels. On top of that, each year, like to take part in BTO during lockdown. your BirdTrack records will be surveys but felt they needed If you are spending more time uploaded to SEWBReC and to build confidence in their in your garden, or are on your Glamorgan Bird Club for bird identification skills first. permitted daily exercise, you inclusion in annual bird reports. Help is at hand with BTO can use the system to note Over 6.7 million records were online ID and birdsong birds that you see and hear. submitted to BirdTrack by workshops. A new ‘My Patch’ widget to birders in 2019. Taking part is With over 14,000 display species and list stats for easy and fun, can be used on a subscribers, BTO’s YouTube favoured area is available. For computer or mobile app for use channel offers a wealth of many, this will be our gardens in the field. informative videos. Of or local green spaces. All you need to know is available these, 74 short ID workshops help viewers Now might also be time to go online, with some useful videos identify various groups of through old notebooks to helping you get started,https:// birds. These cater for all make the most of your records bto.org/our-science/projects/ skill levels, e.g. separating by uploading them into birdtrack. Song and Mistle thrushes, Marsh and Willow tits or various species of gulls. During lockdown, BTO has created a series focusing on birdsong ID. They can be found on YouTube or on social media searching #BirdSongBasics. https:// www.youtube.com/user/ BTOvideo/videos Summer 2020 | 3 Project Hawfinch With its big steel grey beak, orange plumage and iridescent wings, the Hawfinch is beautiful bird. It is also elusive. Within East Glamorgan, the Hawfinch has had a limited and patchy distribution. Only a handful of records of the species are made each year from long established, regular sites.Rich Faceysets out details of a new project underway on the outskirts of Cardiff helping us find out more about this secretive bird. The 2017-18 influx year seemed site, based on analysis of the male was also reported at the a good opportunity to learn number of ringed and unringed site; again, one of Jerry’s birds more about the status of birds. but from Monmouthshire. We Hawfinch in Glamorgan; one of Tony Cross, a prolific Hawfinch had one within season recovery the few populations not ringer from mid-Wales, was kind - a male, initially ringed at regularly monitored in Wales. enough to give us some of his Fforestganol on 9 March, was Hawfinches are a difficult colour rings, so many of the found stunned having hit a species to catch, spending Glamorgan caught birds went window 3km away at Fforest much of their time in the away colour ringed. The 40th Farm in north Cardiff on 4 April. canopy, dropping to the floor to bird caught on 3rd May, with a Unfortunately, he died shortly feed in unpredictable places. To well-developed brood patch after being found. overcome this, we established a and accompanied by a male, Feeding commenced again in feeding site in early November was originally ringed by Jerry March 2019. Again, weekly 2017 in Fforestganol, a wood to Lewis in Gloucestershire. This catches took place resulting in the north of Cardiff. This was was exciting on two counts: the 22 new birds and 4 retraps from baited daily by a team of presence of a brood patch 2018 and two controls from volunteers from the local area. confirmed that this bird was Monmouthshire. For most Hawfinch were caught during 13 breeding locally - the first species, retraps are live birds re- ringing sessions that took place confirmed breeding record of caught by ringers within 5 km of at roughly weekly intervals from this species in the region for where they were ringed, and a 9th March to 3 May 2018 during some years; it also confirmed ‘control’ is when a ringed bird is which a total of 39 ‘new’ that that there is movement re-caught/ sighted more than Hawfinch were caught and between the Hawfinch 5km from its ringing site. ringed. populations in the north of Although we had applied for We estimate that over 150 Cardiff and the Forest of Dean. our own colour-rings, a severe individuals went through the A colour-ringed, second year delay with the order meant that 4 | Summer 2020 the these arrived in time for our site, not really having left. We since. With him was NP, another last session and only two birds, planned our first ringing session Monmouthshire bird, that had both female, were colour- but had to cancel due to the been ringed in April 2014. Then, ringed. Feeding continued on an weather and then … lockdown, and the end of the ad hoc basis until late June. coronavirus happened, which project for this spring. During this time one of the naturally kicked our fieldwork 2020 hasn’t turned out to be colour-ringed birds was seen into touch. the season we had hoped. But being fed by an un-ringed male, A couple of weeks before all is not lost. We still have a lot and later was seen with a lockdown proper, ringers had to of seed, so if restrictions ease juvenile. A second pair, both un- self-isolate (some may argue a and its appropriate we may be ringed, were also seen at the natural state of affairs…), so able to venture out in the feeding station. ringing was put on hold, but autumn or winter to try and 2020 dawned with a lot of feeding continued. find out more about this elusive excitement and promise for the Luckily it did, as Hawfinch species in Glamorgan. If not, Hawfinch season ahead. Would numbers began to increase. T74 then well, there is 2021 … we catch up with many of the appeared at the feeding station. And finally, thanks to all our birds we had ringed in previous She had been ringed on 5 April Hawfinchers: Karen Wilkinson, years? New Hawfinch projects 2018 but this was her first Andy Wilkinson, Colin Harvey, were planned, seed ordered sighting since then; she was Aneurin Minton, Rosalind and distributed, new feeding seen again on several other Watkins, Kim Kirkbirde, Mike volunteers welcomed, and dates. Then T83, a male ringed Shewring, Jez Smith, Anthony feeding began in earnest in late on 25 April 2018. Just like T74, Caravaggi, Dan Jenkins-Jones, February. The Hawfinches this was his first he’d been seen and Frank Sengpiel. returned quickly to the feeding Chaffinches disappearing A familiar species to all, it comes as a shock to hear that Chaffinch numbers have collapsed in recent years. Between 2007 and 2018, the UK population fell by 30% according to Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data. Long-term trends show not only trichomonosis outbreak first movements between a city the that numbers are in steep occurred in our Greenfinch size of Birmingham and the decline, but there is disparity in populations in 2006? surrounding countryside. the timings and rates of decrease BTO has developed a BTO’s aim is to raise £100,000 between the individual countries programme of research that to deliver the complete in the UK.
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