3rd December 2024
When taking 1850 photos on a trip to Two Tree Island as on my last visit, it is only when you get home and start sorting through the photos that you realise what you have taken. An example is this photo of a Dunlin landing on an island. When they come in to land they have their legs dangling which show any colour-rings, and you clearly see the rings on this bird.
When magnified as in this next photo it is possible to see the colour combination so I sent it to my good friend Ed Keeble who monitors colour-ringed waders in the local area, particulaly the River Stour. Ed is then able to decipher the code from the rings which in this instance was from the Netherlands wader ringing programme, and send the details to the programme coordinator Job ten Horn.
Job said that the Dunlin was ringed as an adult on the island of Griend in the West Wadden Sea on the 28th September 2022 and was subsequently seen there again on the 14th August 2024, recaptured there in a mist net on the 14th September 2024, and now photographed at Two Tree Island on the 3rd December 2024.
Griend is a small uninhabited island with an area of just 0.1 sq km, about 500m x 200m, and is shown on the map by the red tear-drop.
So in terms of European wader migration Two Tree Island is truly on the map!!!
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