With little time for blogging, but good news from Wednesday on Clougha when I do.
This is the history of only the second Whooper Swan I've had the opportunity to ring read this winter. I received the sightings history for the marked Whooper Swan BN3 which I found at Bank End on 16 March.
This bird will be 8 years old come 8 August 2015 and before it departs Cockersands for Iceland it will have already flown an amazing almost 50,000 miles on migration, carrying as an adult a weight of around 14kg, a huge creature for such an annual undertaking.
Whooper Swans David Cookson
This is the history of only the second Whooper Swan I've had the opportunity to ring read this winter. I received the sightings history for the marked Whooper Swan BN3 which I found at Bank End on 16 March.
This bird will be 8 years old come 8 August 2015 and before it departs Cockersands for Iceland it will have already flown an amazing almost 50,000 miles on migration, carrying as an adult a weight of around 14kg, a huge creature for such an annual undertaking.
Ringed Cygnet Holmavatn S-Thing Iceland 8 August 2007
Dunkirk, Near Little Downham Cambridgeshire United Kingdom 28 October 2007
Great Dams Fen, Wardy Hill, Coveney Cambridgeshire U.K 22 January 2008
Ringneill Bay, Srangford Lough Co. Down Northern Ireland 18 March 2008
Ringneill Bay, Srangford Lough Co. Down Northern Ireland 18 March 2008
Beechwood Farm, Christchurch Cambridgeshire U.K 24 January 2011
Bank End, Cockerham Lancashire United Kingdom 16 March 2015
I am grateful to Kane Brides once again for this information, and to DC for the Whooper Swans image.
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