30th April 2015
Staff: DWE, DHO, JMY
Weather: Cold day, starting and ending with wind. Rain from 5 onwards.
Projects: Marsh Harrier, Starling.
As usual I and DHO went out to check on the Marsh Harriers (this morning at Rysjön). We identified a new pair and are now getting to a point where all nests will be located as TMJ has completed her areas around Åslasjön and Fågelsjön.
29th April 2015
Staff: DWE, DHO, JMY (Julie Murray)
Weather: Mostly sunny but cold wind. Some rain in the afternoon
Projects: Mars Harrier and Hooded Crow and Raven
Mars Harrier
After a look in Fågelsjön this morning that area is covered. Rysjön and Värstamaden needs to be checked again but otherwise the nestsearching is done now.
28th April 2015
Staff: DWE, DHO
Weather: Sunny and warm day with slight on/off cloud cover.
Projects: Wetland Census and Hooded Crow and Raven
Wetland Census:
Census performed between 07:00 and 09:10 with it becoming quickly apparent that counting Greylag Goose goslings is not as straight forwards as it sounds.
27th april 2015
Staff: DWE, DHO,
Weather: Frost this morning, sunny day.
Projects: Wetland Survey,Hooded Crows & Ravens.
We didn´t find any new crow nests but we did search through some more areas that we need to check. In the afternoon when we looked for crows we instead founded a hobby feeding in Rysjö hagar.
Wetland Survey:
Nynäsängen, nyängen, fräknabotten, fiskingemaden, värstamaden
26th April 2015-04-27
Staff: DWE, DHO
Weather: Windy through the day, rain around dawn which cleared as the day continued. Warm.
Projects: Marsh Harrier and Hooded Crow and Raven
This morning we took on Fågeksjön but the Harriers were not favouring nest building in the windy conditions and the birds were all seemingly hunting.
25th april 2015
Staff: DWE, DHO
Projects: Marsh Harrier and Hooded Crow and Raven
Cold day with some periods of raining. Sunny in some parts of the morning.
In the morning we looked for mars harriers from Ormkärrsplattformen. That didn´t get anything new nest or indication.
After that we went to the Nynäs area to see if we could confirm any crow nests. We didn´t get any result out of that either.
24th April 2015
Staff: DWE, DHO
Projects: Marsh Harrier and Hooded Crow and Raven
Today we spent the morning looking out over Fiskingemaden and from the platform the Harriers were much more active than on our last visit here. We managed to confirm one nest and have our suspicions about a second.
23rd April 2015
Staff: DWE, DHO
Weather: Another warm day but strong wind
Projects: Nest boxes Sörön and Hooded Crow and Raven
In the morning we walked around Sörön and checked all the nestboxes. 16 boxes were occupied and there were eggs in one. Some nestboxes were laying on the ground and one we couldn´t find at all. When we opened one of the nestboxes a nuthatch flew out.
22nd April 2015
Staff: DWE, DHO
Weather: Another very warm day (and no complaints from us!) with a breeze in the afternoon.
Projects: Marsh Harrier and Hooded Crow and Raven
21st april 2015
Staff: DWE, DHO
Weather: Warm and sunny all day, very pleasant.
Projects: Marsh Harrier and Hooded Crow and Raven
In the morning DHO heard a tree pipit singing at Ängfallet.