On the 17th December 1972 John McMeeking made his first ringing visit to Treswell Wood, Nottingham. Soon afterwards systematic ringing began covering seven standard sites around the wood along with visits to additional rides when time allowed. 41 years less two days later the 100,000th encounter (ringed and already ringed) record of birds ringed within the wood was made. Rather fittingly this bird was a Treecreeper which has been the logo of the group for the last few years. The photo below is of John McMeeking holding encounter number 100,000. Remarkably this was one of six Treecreepers caught simultaneously within 30 metres of netting.
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| John McMeeking with a Treecreeper - taken by John Clark |
Initially John had said he wanted to find out what was in the wood and maybe get a paper or two out of ringing in the wood. It is safe to say that the latter has happened. The most noteworthy of these papers was the first paper to show that CES (Constant Effort Site) data did successfully monitor juvenile abundance. The various papers have only been possible because of the continual systematic monitoring, recording and hard work of all the CBC (Common Bird Census) recorders, nest recorders and ringers.
Updated 22/12/2013.
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Congratulations Jonh:and encouragement to band Treecreepers another 100 more. Heart, my most sincere congratulations.
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There is a great story in there, but if you write using jargon and abbreviations such as CES, CBC and don't give a clue where this wood is (county or nearest town perhaps?), it will only appeal to those already in the know. Although I know most of the jargon, I'm not sure what an 'encounter' means, so I wouldn't tweet or otherwise send this to anyone.
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