The Lincolnshire Bird Club

As many know, some foreign Ringing schemes are notoriously slow at submitting records and notifying other schemes. On 3rd November 2012 Martin Sizer caught a Chiffchaff at Donna Nook bearing a Portugese ring. We have just been informed that it was ringed on 3rd March 2012 at Paul da Tornada in Portugal some 1708 kilometres away. It would appear to have been ringed on its way to breeding territory and was trapped on its way back - not bad for a bird that weighed less than a pound coin!

nice one stuart, a few years ago i did the north spain trip from portmouth across the bay of biscay and i was looking out to sea and i called out to my mates i have a passerine coming in, getting closer, its coming and before i knew it i ran out of focus on my bins. i looked down on my coat to find an exhausted chiffy on my coat where it just crawled into my empty pocket. it stayed for about 2 hrs before coming out looked up took of and disappeared towards north spain. hope it got there lol
terry whalin