Colour ringed Common Redshank.

Recently at Goldcliff, I spotted the below Common Redshank which had a series of colour rings. I have seen this individual here before but this time I was able to get a half-decent photograph which I submitted the wader group.  I was very pleased to receive this update on the birds life history.
It turns out that from the group of Redshanks that were ringed at the same time, this bird is the only one to have been recorded in Wales.  My thanks to Peter Potts for providing the update for me.

13/09/2014     Thorney Island, Emsworth, Chichester Harbour, West Sussex          
Farlington RG Pete Potts et al  05/10/2014   Warblington, Chichester Harbour, Hampshire
Peter Milinets-Raby  15/04/2015       Goldcliff lagoons, Newport, Gwent, Wales   
Michael Thornton  10/05/2015          Goldcliff lagoons, Newport, Gwent, Wales   
Thomas Chinnick  27/08/2015            Warblington, Chichester Harbour, Hampshire         
Peter Milinets-Raby  09/09/2015       Warblington, Chichester Harbour, Hampshire         
Peter Milinets-Raby  10/09/2015       Warblington, Chichester Harbour, Hampshire         
Peter Milinets-Raby  15/10/2015       Warblington, Chichester Harbour, Hampshire         
Peter Milinets-Raby  28/11/2015       The Kench, Langstone Harbour, Hayling Island, Hampshire 
Pete Potts  11/03/2016 Goldcliff lagoons, Newport, Gwent, Wales  reported as B+B//B but Neville says must be same bird.   Neville Davies  31/03/2016    Goldcliff lagoons, Newport, Gwent, Wales   
Keith Roylance  21/04/2016   Goldcliff lagoons, Newport, Gwent, Wales    green ring not seen but most likely to be this bird.   Neville Davies
16/01/2017     Northney, Hayling Island, Hampshire prob this bird Anne noted it as NN but this bird now winters in Portsmouth Hbr & RK are very unlikely to move about mid-winter Anne de Potier
14/02/2017     Northney, Hayling Island, Hampshire G not seen well, but as this bird was seen in the exact same place on 16 Feb I am now sure it is.   Anne de Potier
16/02/2017     Northney, Hayling Island, Hampshire Anne de Potier
30/03/2017     Northney, Hayling Island, Hampshire prob this bird Anne noted it as NN but this bird now winters in Portsmouth Hbr & RK are very unlikely to move about mid-winter Anne de Potier
31/07/2017     Langstone, Chichester Harbour, Havant, Hampshire Peter Milinets-Raby
01/09/2017     Northney, Hayling Island, Hampshire Pete Potts
20/09/2017     Northney, Hayling Island, Hampshire Caroline French
23/09/2017     Northney, Hayling Island Pete Potts
24/09/2017     Northney, Hayling Island, Hampshire Pete Potts
7/10/2017       Northney, Hayling Island, Hampshire David Ball
07/04/2018     Goldcliff lagoons, Newport, Gwent, Wales Neville Davies
25/08/2018     Northney, Hayling Island, Chichester Harbour, Havant, Hampshire Pete Potts
28/08/2018     Langstone, Chichester Harbour, Havant, Hampshire Peter Milinets-Raby
07/09/2018     Langstone, Chichester Harbour, Havant, Hampshire Peter Milinets-Raby
08/09/2018     Sweare Deep, Langstone, Chichester Harbour  Pete Potts
24/04/2019     Goldcliff lagoons, Newport, Gwent, Wales    photo shows display/sing so presumably a male. The two lower tarsus rings are stained the blue and green to blackish as seen in photo            Neville Davies

Photo: N J Davies

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