MRG member John talking to two bird ringing fans @Ness_Gardens today #outreach #birdringing

Come join us @Ness_Gardens for some bird ringing today, 10am-3pm. #ringing #outreach #celebratingbiodiversity

Bags filled with @_BTO bird soft toys for ‘Guess the bird from the call’

All set up for our schools outreach event @BirkenheadPark1 doing some bird ringing and insect collecting #futuregenerationofscientists #citizenscience

A lovely little trial @BirkenheadPark1 ringing birds before an event on May 22nd #bto #ringing #outreach

A wonderful new collaboration with @BirkenheadPark1 monitoring their nest boxes across the site. 7 blue tit chicks ringed this morning @MerseysideRG @LivUniISMIB #ringing #networking #outreach

The first 3 Grey Herons ringed today as part of our new project. Please report sightings of our colour ringed Herons, Little Egrets and Cormorants @_BTO #ringing #herons

Great to help in a bird ringing demo @Ness_Gardens today with @MerseysideRG & @RoseFroud. Lovely to see so many people enjoying themselves & even better to catch many healthy Greenfinches. A species we’ve not ringed at these demos before

A great day yesterday doing a ringing demonstration @Ness_Gardens in the break in the weather! #ringing #bto

A small catch of Knot and Dunlin last night at #Hoylake, this flagged knot was ringed on Alt estuary in 2018. It has been reported 17 times since, including Skogarnes, #Iceland. Great to see what can be gathered from using leg flags to help bird conservation.

Thanks to @realjoelennon for reporting Cormorant 233 at Portmore Lough, N. Ireland, on 24th Jan. This is just the 2nd bird from our project to be found in Ireland. Last week our Little Egret that went to the Isle of Man was found in N. Wales.

MRG have reached a nice milestone at one of our sites, #woolstoneyes, with a Robin ringed on the 17th January being the 190,000th bird ringed there since 1980. The 100,000 was a Moorhen. I wonder what the 200,000th will be?

In July, decisions were made by @NENorthWest which has resulted in an unprecedented outcome in modern times. 0.5ha of the Dee Estuary SAC is now set to be destroyed on Wirral. @WildJustice_org have been helping to reverse this nationally significant precedent. PLEASE RETWEET!

I retrapped this juv male Sparrowhawk this am. Initially I thought the lesions could be trichomonas infection, but further research seems to suggest Eucoleus dispar. Anyone seen this before? The bird flew off strongly and appeared otherwise healthy.

Thanks to @WayneTurner4 for reporting cormorant 225 from Guernsey on the 5th December. This is our first report of a cormorant to the Channel Islands. #bto

Just heard that this Little Egret has become the first from our project to make it to the Isle of Man. Please check Little Egrets for colour rings and report them so we can learn more about their post juvenile dispersal. #BTO

After last week's Yellow-browed, the "magic garden" has done it again with the first Firecrest of the Autumn. Better still this is the first foreign control Firecrest for MRG. It was wearing a ring from The Netherlands.

The second Yellow-browed Wblr for one members garden ringed this week as part of his goldcrest study, 300+ so for this Autumn. (5000+ ringed over the years). He has also ringed 2 Pallas's Warbler and 54 Firecrest there. Amazing place. Keep up the good work.

Our first cormorant to Northern Island came through this week from Belfast. Thanks to #SandyMcWilliams for the photo and for reporting it.

A bit premature pressing post. The first two Moorhen of the Autumn colour ringed at #WoolstonEyes. Hopefully many more to come.