Not sure if you would call this a happy memory, but it is an interesting one.
About a month ago I opened up my backdoor and was confronted with lots of feathers blowing in the wind and the top and bottom beak parts of a bird and on the floor and a mysterious slimy fluff ball.

Bird Leg Ring

We didn’t know what had killed the bird and we speculated, because the feathers looked as though it had been plucked and there was no carcass in sight that a bird of prey must have been eating it’s dinner on our roof.

I tidied up the feathers, but left the slimy fluff ball where it was. Today a month or so later,, I went passed where the fluff ball was and saw it had broken open and inside was a little metal leg ring, the type conservationist’s put on birds.

I woke up my husband to tell him what I had found and he got so excited he gave himself an headache and had to go back to bed, he was an avid bird watcher when he was younger and had never found a leg ring.

We’re going to try to find out about the bird the leg ring had belonged to by sending the details of the ring to the British Trust for Ornithology,their website says we should be sent the details of what bird it was and where and when it was ringed in about a month, Awesome.

My guess it was a Starling, but we’ll have to wait for the results to be certain.