Southern Colour Ringing Group

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A good trip out wiht the Rye Meads trainees and Roger Emmens saw a respectable total of 16 Egrets and 8 Herons ringed.

Species Ringed Colour ringed
Grey Heron 8 8
Little Egret 16 15

We visited Walthamstow No 1 island this evening to check and ring Littel Egrets. Many still had eggs and two nests were too small to ring. However three broods of Egrets were ringed and a late brood of two Grey Heron. We ran out of time and it was too cold to go to No 2 island, we will try and do that in the next week or so to at least establish a count. There appeared to be 12 pairs on No 1 Island.

Species Ringed Colour ringed
Grey Heron 2 2
Little Egret 10 10

Four Grey Herons colour ringed today at Walthamstow.

Species Ringed Colour ringed
Grey Heron 4 4
Little Egret 0 0

Methods

The Southern Colour Ringing Group rings Grey Heron and Little Egret pulli (young in the nest) at two sites in the Lee Valley – Netherhall and Walthamstow Wetlands.

Nests are climbed up to and young removed to ring. We also fit colour rings; Heron (White with black letters and a three digit code) and Egrets (orange on the left leg and black or green on the right leg) which allows the birds to be relocated without needing to be recaptured. There are many more bird-watchers looking for colour-ringed birds, so this greatly improves our chances of understanding the movements of the birds from the Lee Valley.

If you see a bird with one of our colour rings, please use the submission form or send details (ring-code, date, location, species) to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Ringing totals

2020 year totals

Species Ringed Colour ringed
Grey Heron 0 0
Little Egret 11 7

2021 year totals

Species Ringed Colour ringed
Grey Heron 31 31
Little Egret 19 19

2022 year totals

Species Ringed Colour ringed
Grey Heron 14 14
Little Egret 18 18

2023 year totals

Species Ringed Colour ringed
Grey Heron 20 20
Little Egret 26 25

Grand totals

Species Ringed Colour ringed
Grey Heron 258 110
Little Egret 210 189

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