The day before yesterday, sorry Magnus......
Staff: Teresa, Carlos, Bruno, Helena, Daniel, Susan, Marianne, Antoine and Maja Tarka.
Weather: Sun, sun and more sun
Farmland project: Failed to catch the target ortolan bunting
Great Reed Warbler project: Another good day by teresa
CES: Another day and another CES session completed with the following totals from BVAL:
Great tit- 2
Wren- 1
Sedge warler- 8 (1)
Robin- 2
willow warbler- 10 (5)
Staff: Teresa, Carlos, Bruno, Helena, Daniel, Susan, Marianne, Antoine and Maja Tarka.
Weather: Another hot sunny day in Kvismaren. It seems Spain and not Sweden.
Great Reed Warbler project: A female, which was building its nest, was caught this morning by the GRW team.
Staff: Teresa, Carlos, Helena, Daniel, Susan, Marianne, Antoine, and visitor Arne. Newly arrived: Maja Tarka (GRW project) and Bruno (CES ringing).
Weather: Very hot, no wind or clouds. Maybe 30 degrees?
Dagens arbete:
Two new nests of Great Reed Warbler were found today, which is unusually late in the season.
Personel; Marianne, Antoine, Carlos, Teresa, Daniel, Helena, Susan. Guest: Arne
Weather; Mostly sunny, slightly windy
Projects; Great Reed Warbler; Ringing; Marsh Harrier Nests; Farmland Surveys
Personal: Teresa, Magnus (last day!!), Helena, Daniel, Carlos, Marianne, Antoine; Susan, Guest: August
Weather: we had a very shiny and sunny morning, and then clouds went back and covered the sky at 8am.
The rest of the day, sunshine in the sky!
Projects; Great Reed Warbler ; Farmland Birds ; Ringing program CES ; Marsh Harrier nests
Ringing session goes on in the reed with 59 birds which were caught:
-Willow warbler
-Garden warbler
-Sedge warbler
-Lesser whitethroat
-Robin
Personel; Marianne, Antoine, Carlos, Teresa, Daniel, Helena, Susane, Alexandra. Guest: August and Arne
Weather; Sunny and a bit windy
Projects; Great Reed Warbler; Ringing; Marsh Harrier Nests
Great Reed Warbler's team caught the logger male at Nyängen. Very good! But the logger was not on. It was lost somehow. Not good at all! Next to him, a new male which couldn't be identify was singing like crazy! Who's him?
Staff: Carlos, Daniel, Helena, Marianne, Magnus, Teresa. Guests: Dennis and Emilia and August
Weather: Windy and rainy in the morning, better in the afternoon.
Projects: Farmland Survey ; CES ; GRW
Staff: Carlos, Daniel, Helena, Marianne, Teresa. Guests : Dennis and Emilia Hasselquist and August Thomasson
Weather: Foggy in the morning, but clearing up to a beautiful and warm day, although with some rain and thunder in the afternoon and evening. Weak to no wind.
Farmland Survey: Marianne did a great job with the Farmland Project today, locating a Skylark nest AND confirming that the Ortolan pair on Husön are feeding their young.
CES: On the second day of standardised ringing my true love sent to me:
1 Treecreeper
3 Marsh Tits
1st day of July at the Kvismare fågelstation = 1st day of ringing staff = long day of work!
Personal: Teresa, Magnus, Helena, Daniel, Lena, Carlos, Marianne ; Guest: Dennis, Emilia and August
Weather: Cloudy in the early morning, then sunny for the rest of the day (little rain in the late afternoon)
Projects; Great Reed Warbler; Farmland Birds; Ringing program and ringing setup
Always look on the bright side of life.
Personal: Teresa, Magnus, Helena, Daniel, Lena, Marianne, Guest: August with Carlos arriving from spain, but not bringing the weather !
Weather: Aweful
Projects; Great Reed Warbler; Farmland Birds; Ringing setup, Marsh Harrier Nest Search.
The Great reed warbler team braved the rain and managed to succesfully find and ring a brood of chicks, plus catch a further male and female at another site.