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Joined: Wed Dec 29, 2004 6:44 pm Posts: 1611 Location: Market Rasen
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I have noticed an increase in Nuthatches in the Market Rasen area and today I ringed a female in a garden near Osgodby - the first recorded there. A few weeks ago Martin Sizer caught another female near Louth which was already ringed. The Bird Atlas says that the adults are sedentary but post juvenile dispersal accounts for any significant movement. It is not possible to age them after they have completed their post juvenile moult so we do not know the exact age of either bird. We have not yet received the ringing details of the Muckton bird and I am not aware of any other ringers in the north of the county who have ringed Nuthatches. When the details arrive it may well shed some light on just how far the juveniles disperse.
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