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Brewood Ringers

The Brewood Ringers are mainly members of the 'Bache, Shearwood and McShane' ringing group--but that's a bit of a mouthful, so Brewood Ringers is easier--and we also regularly welcome friends to join us either long or short term. The regular players for the team are:- Peter Bache (A and trainer), Colin McShane (A), Peter Gruar (C), Derek Gruar(A and trainer), Dave Clifton (A and trainer), Glynn Middleton(C), Paul ten Hoeve (C) and James Morris (T). Co-founder Phil Shearwood now lives in Preston, but occasional appearances by Rob Skeates, Lee Wells, Stu Brown, Anne Woolley and Mikael 'Misha' Markovets are really valued.

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Obviously we are all licensed with the British Trust of Ornithology under the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 to catch and ring wild birds.

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Ringing in the UK

Of course most of our ringing is done in the UK--lots in members' gardens as usual--and we also have some regular sites: The Chillington estate all year, Belvide WMBC reserve mainly late summer, the Sandon estate for winter roosts; some members such as Derek G. work with birds professionally all round Britain, and we regularly have ringing trips to other parts of the country--Lundy Island and Eilean nan Ron for example.

Ringing Trips Abroad

Increasingly over recent years, members of the group have gone on various ringing trips abroad including Portugal, Canada, Gibraltar, Russia and Kazakhstan and last year Kamchatka.

We hope you enjoy reading about some of our exploits, and find them interesting.

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Please contact us if you want further details about bird ringing or perhaps wish to join in our activities.

RINGING DATES

Next proposed ringing session

The 'summer' ringing season has now ended.

We may try later in October for Redwing and Snipe, although no definite plans have yet been made.

We will try to give advanced warning, but this may be tricky as it is imperative, especially for Snipe that there is absolutely no wind.

RINGING TRIPS

Another successful trip to Portugal!!

A merry group of 5 ringers and 4 non-ringers spent the week 14-21st October in Vilamoura, Portugal on the second annual trip to the site. A full report will be posted in the 'Reports' section of this website--but for now we would like to let folk know that we again did very well. We catch and ring about 10% of the ringed birds in Portugal for a year!! This year we were able to look at year on year comparisons, based on over 1300 birds we caught this year. Most numerous were Chiffchaff and Blackcaps--one of the latter bearing a British ring. Who knows if some of the birds we handled had been bred on or near our ringing sites in the midlands!?