With heavy rain and strong winds November was a dead loss, With only 54 birds rung
in five sessions . It was not quiet as bad as last year as from November the 12th last year
I did not ring at Jerbourg again until April due to weather conditions today the 1st of December
we managed to ring for about 3 hours only catching 7 birds witch were
1 Blackbird      , 1 Goldfinch   ,1 Wren   ,1 Chaffinch   ,1 Blue tit   ,1 Blackcap  ,1 Robin
with 2 re trapped Firecrest   Novembers totals were

 Wren                 1

 Robin                8

 Blackbirds       11

 Redwing            8

 Garden warbler  1

 Chiffchaff          1

 Goldcrest           9

 Firecrest            5

 Blue tit              2

Great tit             3

Chaffinsh          1

Com scoter       1

With a another quit day that Jerbourg, I met Phil at 7.00 am and opened seven nets. The wind was
from the N to NE 1/2.
We managed to ring fourteen birds,and one control Dunnock AK2335 that was rung on the 8/11/2011
at Jerbourg as a first year bird. Other birds rung 5 Black Birds 4 Chaffinch's 2 Fire crest 1 Gold crest
1 Great tit 1 Robin. With winds of force 5/6 forced this coming week, I suppose I will have to go to work?

Todays Blue tits female on the left male on the right 17/11/12

It was a very quit morning at Jerbourg today with no birds moving we opened 7 nets
the wind was from SW to W force 2/3 and dieing dawn to 1/2 from the W to NW by 10.00am.
I decided to closed the nets we did mange to trap and ring eleven birds 2 goldcrest 3 robins
2 firecrest 2 blue tits 1 great tit 1 black bird. With wind being N to NE tomorrow i am hopeing for a better day NOTE THAT ALL DIED BIRDS FOUND WITH RINGS  OR TAGS ON THEM SHOULD BE REPORTED TO RICH OR MARGARET AUSTIN CHANNEL ISLAND RINGING
COORDINATORS. TEL O1481 721915 OR EMAIL  richmond.austin43@gmail.con

With the winds SE to S force 3/4, I met Phil at Jerbourg at 7.00 am and open 5 nets
We rung Twelve new birds in three hour 4 Redwing 2 Goldcrest 1 Firecrest 2 Robins 1 Great tit
1 Black bird 1 ChiffChaff  Pictures of Firecrest and Goldcrest
and yesterdays Garden Warbler

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With the winds NE to E force 2-3 I went up to Jerbourg at about 7am and started to put up 5 nets
the wind was more like a 3-4 then 2-3 though the nets were opening with the breeze I decided to
give it a go with hundreds of Thrushes mainly red wing ,fieldfare ,and black birds
there was also skylarks, and large mixed flocks of Finch's going over head Phil turned up at about
7-45 in two hours we managed to catch and ring 11 birds with a very late garden warbler
2 Robins    2 Red wing    4 Black birds     1Wren      1 Sparrow hawk     1 Garden warbler

 15th November

Phils first Redwing and Sparrow hawk to add to his ringing list

This year Paul veron and myself started the cormorant colour ring project with our first visit to
godin on the 13 th April on arrival we noticed a lot of juvinile cormorants that were ready to fledge
even though we were at least 2 weeks earlier then last year it seems that we might have missed
them again but we managed to ring 15 pullie with colour rings and metal rings there were still
some nests with eggs and small chicks so we decided on another visit in 10 - 14 days time
with the help of Pauls brother Chris and his rib we took a visit on the 2nd of May and managed
to ring another 15 pullie with a total of 30 birds colour ringed on Godin
in between these dates on the 21st April we went across to Lihoumel and rung another 10
cormerant pullie it was a great start to the cormarnt project . many thanks to Pauls brother Chris

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With a poor start to Novembers ringing at Jerbourg with high winds and rain a phone call
from Paul Veron yesterday to see if I was up to some Gull ringing we were hoping to start
a new project with colour ringing Black headed gulls but decided that we would go for
large Gulls in Paul Verons garden we met this morning at 7.30 with Phil Alexander a trainee
Paul had already baited the trapping aera it was not long before Gulls started coming in
within about half an hour we had about a hundred Gulls in the aera and about 60 +
in the trapping aera and decided to take the catch with 65 new Herring gulls of witch 49
were first year birds and 6 second year birds and a pleasant surprise with a single adult

Black headed gull gave us a start to the Black headed gull ringing project

With October over it was not a good October for ringing at Jerbourg this year I only managed
7 day ringing, of about three hours ringing each day,
with Phil my trainee. Though there was good visible migration it was either to
windy or to wet in total manage to ring 130 birds hopefully November will be better
the totals are as followed.

           RINGING TOTALS FOR OCTOBER


KESTRELS                   2

SWALLOW                 34

GREY WAG                  1

WREN                            3

ROBIN                         24

BLACK BIRDS             2

SONG THRUSH           6

BLACK CAP               15

CHIFFCHAFF               7

GOLDCREAT               8

FIRECREST                  2

GREAT TIT                  4

CHAFFINCH                4

GOLDFINCH                3

LINNET                       27

BULLFINCH                 1

One of todays  Robins 22nd October
Got up at 6.30am debating to go to work or ringing winds good
S to SE lite 1/2, with mist and low cloud and very damp work
won finshed  work at 14.30 and weather a little better i went up
to Jerbourg. Open up six net, good number of migrant's held
back with the weather.managed to ring twenty four birds
2 Chiffchaff 8 Robins 1 Black bird 4 Linnets 5 Song thrush 4 Chaffinch, In a hour half

October 20th Jerbourg at 7.00 open 7 nets with good winds from the N/E 2/3
and good visible  passage of birds, mainly Thrushes, Finches,some Skylarks with
woodpigeons, and a thousand + swallows. Phil turned up at 7.30 we do the first round
off the nets, in three hours we rung forty birds 19 Linnets 6 swallows 4 black caps
1 great tit 1 black bird 1chiffchaff  5 goldcrest 1 firecrest  1 wren 1 goldfinch a good
three hours

October 13th up Jerboury at 7.15am for a morning ringing winds N to NW backing
W 3/4 opened up 5 nets and rung until 10am with a total of 18 birds witch included

5 great tits ,  2 robins  ,  2 linnets  , 3 gold crest   ,  2 black caps  ,  2 chiffchaff   2 wrens