Redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus)

Status at Longham Lakes

Uncommon passage migrant.

1. 1 male by Longham Reservoir North on 7th April 2006 (Trevor Thorpe).
2. 2 Hampreston Fields, 7th September 2006.
3. 1 on 4th September 2010 (Aidan Brown).
4. 1 Hampreston Fields, 8th-9th September 2010.
5. 1 male singing from Samuel’s Wood on 19th, 23rd and 30th April 2011 (George Green).
6. 1 1st winter in the ringing nets on the Old Settling Marsh, 9 September 2011 (Roger Peart).
7. 1 male in the ringing nets there on 20 September 2011 (Roger Peart).
8. 1 female on 31st August 2012.
9. 1 on 4th September 2012 (George Green).
10. 1 ringed on 7th September, and another on 12th September and 17th September 2012 (Roger Peart).
11. 1 female on 10th May 2013 (Lorne Bissell).
12. 1 juvenile ringed on 22nd August 2013 (Roger Peart).
13. 1 ringed on 9th September 2014 (Roger Peart).
14. 1 on 10th September 2015.

Ringing:
2011: 2 recorded as 6. and 7. above.
2012: 3 (10. above)
2013: 1 (12. above)
2014: 1 (13. above)

Redstart, Longham Lakes, 9 September 2011 (Roger Peart)