On Sunday a group of volunteers from Iceni Bird Monitoring Group came to Hoveton and Wroxham to ring new cygnets and check older members of the mute swan colony.
"We try to get out and monitor the swans once or twice every winter and this is the third year that we’ve helped the project organiser to mark some of the birds at the Broads. This project runs across the entirety of East Anglia and the south east of England. I usually post on our blog about all our ringing activities and have posted a link to our results from the day. We were particularly pleased to catch a mature female that had fishing line wrapped around her foot with a partially embedded hook that we were able to remove. We check each bird over while we process them and quite often find minor issues that can become more of a problem if not dealt with in time.
We are all volunteers and are fortunate to have a small amount of funding from the Broads authority carried forward from last year to support this work".
Denise Lamsdell
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