18th May 2015
Staff: DWE, JMY, EKP, MBR, TMJ
Weather: Cold, raining in the morning, nice & sunny in the afternoon.
Projects: Great Reed Warbler, Ortolans, Skylarks, Savi’s Warbler.
Early in the morrning DWE, JMY and EKP have been searching for Ortolan Bunting but without success mainly due to the bad weather. They later perfomed a census of cranes and greylags in Bärsta with very few compared to the evening count some days before (13 cranes vs 244 the last Thursday).
10th-17th May 2015
Staff: DWE, JMY, MBL, TMJ, MFB, MPN, Bernt, Jakob, Lilly
Projects:
Great Reed Warbler, Skylark, Ortolan Bunting, Goose Counting, Wetland Census, Night Singing Census, Starling Nest Boxes, Lapwing Survey, Crane Counting, Spotted Crakes, Savi’s Warbler.
Over the last week things have been rather hectic with various people on various projects and we have been rather forgetful of the daily diary; I will do a summary of the various working projects over the past week.
9th May 2015
Staff: DWE, JMY, (Marcelo) MBL, TMJ, MFG
Weather: Sunny, little wind, generally pleasant.
Projects: Great Reed Warbler, Ringing, Spotted Crake.
After the previous days clearing up of much of the Farmland bird duties, DWE and JMY took the opportunity to do some birding around Kvismaren on a lovely day. MBL and TMJ spent much of the morning on the lookout for Great Reed Warblers and both succeeded in finding new birds in Rysjön and Aslasjön.
7th May 2015
Staff: DWE, JMY, Marcelo, TMJ
Weather: Sunnier starts, with windy and variable weather throughout the day.
Projects: Great Reed Warbler, Skylark
TMJ and Marcelo started the day off attempting to catch a ringed male bird and to great success it took them only 5 minutes.
6th May 2015
Staff: DWE, JMY, Marcelo, TMJ
Weather: Rainy first thing, followed by warmer spells, strong wind.
Projects: Wetland Survey, Starling Project, Ortolan Bunting.
After the weather forecast promised a nicer day, we were disheartened to wake up to rain. The damp start to our Wetland Survey soon subsided and led on to a much more mild day.
Nynäsängen
Greylag Goose; 4
Teal; 44
Gadwall; 3 pairs
Goldeneye; 1
5th May 2015
Staff: DWE, JMY, TMJ, Marcello
Weather: Sun at first, then became cloudy & rained afternoon & evening
Projects: Skylark, Starling Nestboxes, Great Reed Warbler, Wetland Survey.
The day started with trial skylark plot surveys by DWE & JMY. 7 singing males were recorded over the two plots. Further discussion then took place with Jan Sondell to decide on the best methodology for the actual surveys beginning in Mid May. In the meantime we will be observing the skylarks to look for confirmation of nesting.
4th May 2015
Staff: DWE, JMY, TMJ
Weather: Cold windy morning, torrential rain all afternoon and drizzle into the evening.
Projects: Skylark, Starling Nestboxes, Great Reed Warbler, Wetland Survey, Marsh Harriers and Crane Survey.
DWE and JMY went out this morning to trial the first plots of the Skylark survey. In the 2 plots we identified 7 singing males (3 in one, 4 in another) and we shall switch tomorrow in order to see how closely our results trend.
3rd May 2015
Staff: DWE, DHO, JMY, MPN, JSL
Weather: Generally warm and sunny.
Projects: skylark survey, marsh harrier.
2nd May 2015
Staff: DWE, DHO, JMY
Weather: Cold day, with mid-strength winds and showers.
Projects: Marsh Harrier, Hooded Crow and Raven.
1st may April 2015
Staff: DWE, DHO, JMY
Weather: Variable. Sunny in the morning but rain afternoon and evening.
Projects: Marsh Harrier, Starling. Crows and Raven
In the morning we searched for Marsh Harriers at Värstamaden. A couple of birds were flying around but no more indication of breeding. We heard the first Cuckoo of the year and some Wood warblers in the morning.
After the Marsh Harrier morning was done did we search for some potential Crow breedings. We couldn’t confirm anything new.