Our warden, Stefan Bodnar, was ringing birds last weekend along the track by the feeders.
Birds ringed were blackcap, blue tit, bullfinch, coal tit, dunnock, goldcrest, great spotted woodpecker, great tit, long-tailed tit, robin, wren.
They are never harmed when handled by trained ringers. The birds are released, quickly, after taking measurements and putting a ring on a leg.
The blackcaps may be birds passing through on migration south or they maybe birds migrating west from the continent.
If you want to know more about ringing at Middleton Lakes, then contact Stefan Bodnar, here at Middleton Lakes.
Thanks to Ken Rogers for this photograph compilation
Thanks to Richard Hancy for these 2 photographs - a wren in the hand and ringers at work.