5th May 2016
Staff: DWE, MLA, LST, LAR
Weather: Another warm sunny day with some wind.
Projects: Wetland Census, Great Reed Warbler, Ortolan Bunting
An early start as all hands hit the Wetland Census this morning, covering all our areas throughout the day and DWE teaching LST and LAR there sites and the survey method.
Fräknabotten
Staff: DWE, MLA, LST, MPO, LAR
Weather: Sunny and warm day up to 10-12 degrees
Projects: Marsh Harrier, Great Reed Warbler.
This morning some nests of Marsh Harriers were checked by DWE and LST. They potentially found one in Sörbysjön, but needs to be confirmed during the next days.
Staff: DWE, MLA, LST, MPO, LAR
Weather:
Projects: Marsh Harrier, Starling nestboxes, Great Reed Warbler, Ortolan Buntings.
This morning DWE and LST located another two Marsh Harrier nests at Fågeljön. Interesting behaviours were also observed with both of the male harriers busy building nests while four females circling around nests without any nest building attempts.
2nd May 2016
Staff: DWE, MLA, LST
Weather: One more warm day!
Projects: Marsh Harrier, Starling nestboxes, Great Reed Warbler, Crane Counting.
Another morning checking for Marsh Harrier nests, this time in Fiskingemaden. One more nest was found, raising the total number of confirmed nests so far to 15. And another possible location of a nest, where a male and two females were present.
1st May 2016
Staff: DWE, MLA, LST
Weather: Another warm day!
Projects: Marsh Harrier, Big nest boxes, Starling nestboxes.
This morning DWE and MLA went to Lötenplatform to check out the Marsh harrier nesting activities on Rysjön and Nyängen. We discover 1 for sure new nest but 2 very likely nests as well in Nyängen.
Following this we went to climb and check the larger boxes in Sörön for Tawny Owl’s in order to collect unhatched eggs for the Riksmuseum in Stockholm. Sadly no nests were found in the nest boxes here.
30th April 2016
Staff: DWE, MLA, LST
Weather: Warm day!
Projects: Marsh Harrier,
A much warmer day brought around a lot of Harrier activity, with 4 new nest building pairs discovered on Rysjön with 2 pairs active on Nyängen as well.
This afternoon we collected Stanley from the station, he will be part of the team til July and shall assist with all the projects.
DWE
29th April 2016
Staff: DWE, MLA
Weather: Mild start, but warmer day with clear skies and nice weather.
Projects: Marsh Harrier, Great Reed Warbler, Starling nestboxes.
A much nicer day than yesterday and a new nest site for Marsh Harriers on Åslajön brings us to 9 nests so far this season. We think there are currently 2 more pairs that we have not found nests for so far in the Åslaholmen area, but anticipate more birds arriving soon.
28th April 2016
Staff: DWE, MLA
Weather: Cold start, weather system moving in at 10 and rain/snow all day.
Projects: Wetland Census, Marsh Harrier
This morning we censured Fräknabotten and looked out for Marsh harrier nest building from Lötenplatform.
Fräknabotten
Greylag Goose: 2
Mallard; 1 pair
Teal: 144
Wigeon: 55
Gadwall: 6 pairs + 1 adult
Lapwing: 11
Snipe: 3
Redshank: 1
Wood Sandpiper: 1
27th April 2016
Staff: DWE, MLA
Weather: Cold start, but actually a quite warm day with the odd shower
Projects: Wetland Census, Goldeneye Nestboxes, Spotted Crake
Today we censured all of Östra Kvismaren that was not completed yesterday, and to our horror the geese already have chicks, making the counting harder. We joke, we love it really.
Fiskingemaden
Greylag Goose: 1
Teal: 131
Shoveler: 3 pairs
Gadwall: 4 pairs
Lapwing: 1
Black-headed Gull: 10
Bittern: 1
26th April 2016
Staff: DWE,
Weather: Cold start, but warm and sunny day (and it feels good to say so!)
Projects: Wetland Census, Marsh Harrier
Today was the beginning of Wetland Census part 2, with Åslajön and Fågeljön surveyed. Just for fun, all the geese feeding on Öbyåkern decided to visit Fågeljön whilst I was counting.
Fågeljön