There you go Bob, the colour ringed male Mute Swan on the Sands Lake was ringed...at the Sands Lake as an adult in 1992.
Thanks to Wes from the North West Swan Study Group for getting back to me so promptly with the gen on Mr DLS!
Blimey, this makes this fella about 16 years old by my reckoning.
Which would of course go some way to explaining his appalling teenage tantrums and hissy fits whenever you go near his six cygnets....
Bazzo had a Great Skua and 60 Manx Shearwaters off Formby Point during an a.m. seawatch yesterday, while I was off bughunting again....
Quail calling at Martin Mere yesterday and a few elsewhere on the mosses over the last few weeks.
Eyes to the skies everyone, eyes to the skies...
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Glad to hear Wes is still churning them out. Ringing was poor this weekend. I must have been in the only place in Cheshire where it rained and, having got up at 2.45am, was not best pleased. An adult Reed Warbler retrap, originally ringed June last year, was the only adult of note but two pullus Stock Dove before returning home for some sleep was nice.
And then on Tuesday morning there was the Marsh Harrier from the train, coming into Hightown ...