Yorkshire Coast Ringing Week – East Yorkshire Ringing Group
This year the event will take place from Saturday 19th October to Saturday 26th October.
In co-operation with Filey Brigg Ornithological Group Bird Observatory and Flamborough Bird Observatory, we hope to have a number of sites operational on a dawn to dusk basis monitoring bird migration, with the onus on ageing and sexing and any racial differentiation.
The main site is at Filey in the top scrub on the Filey Country Park, with a second site (if birds and staffing permits) at Parish Wood. Flamborough have a number of sites that could be available during the week and will be announced nearer the date. Other sites may also be operated during the week when staffing is available.
Come and take part in this annual event and watch ringing demonstrations and see the displays of data collected.
Visitors are welcome to watch the ringing of the birds and there will be information available on the BTO ringing scheme and survival and migration of local birds.
Visiting ringers (including trainees) can also join in if they have their permits with them and there will be a small donation towards groups’ activities. The Ringing Week has been run every year since 1993 always in October and during that month we have trapped in excess of 20,300 birds including:
| Long-eared Owl, 6 | Great Spotted Woodpecker, 25 | Pechora Pipit, 1 |
| Dunnock, 449 | Robin, 1107 | Ring Ouzel, 10 |
| Blackbird, 3069 | Fieldfare, 42 | Song Thrush, 660 |
| Redwing, 617 | Mistle Thrush, 1 | Lanceolated Warbler, 1 |
| Grasshopper Warbler, 4 | Reed Warbler, 20 | Barred Warbler, 1 |
| Lesser Whitethroat, 13 | Whitethroat, 3 | Garden Warbler, 17 |
| Blackcap, 309 | Pallas’s Warbler, 7 | Yellow-browed Warbler, 25 |
| Radde’s Warbler, 2 | Dusky Warbler, 1 | Chiffchaff, 174 |
| Willow Warbler, 22 | Goldcrest, 3340 | Firecrest, 8 |
| Red-breasted Flycatcher, 1 | Red-backed Shrike, 3 | Jay, 9 |
| Magpie, 3 | Chaffinch, 563 | Brambling, 180 |
| Greenfinch, 5190 | Goldfinch, 358 | Siskin, 66 |
| Common Redpoll, 33 | Lesser Redpoll, 90 | Arctic Redpoll, 1 |
| Common Crossbill, 2 | Bullfinch, 82 | Hawfinch, 1 |
For information contact the Peter Dunn, EYRG Ringing Officer – pjd@fbog.co.uk