11th July 2015
Staff: JMY, MBR, APN, MMJ, CBS, MLA, PBN, TMJ
Weather: Cold and cloudy in the morning but got sunny around 10 ahead
Projects:Standardised ringing, Great Reed Warblers, Skylarks and Ortolan Bunting
Skylarks
JMY and MPN did skylark plots at hay fields, counting skylark activity and individuals
Ortolan Buntings
JMY went to sörösläatten to check the activity of the Ortolan buntings.
Great reeds
MBR and TMJ went to Slottsviken to check nest. They ringed the chicks of two different nest and succesfull got two adults (female and male), which were ringed and got a logger.
Standardised ringing
Ringing at Vallen started with the normal 24 nets set up at 4:15. Total number of birds caught was 61, 36 new birds and 25 recaptures
Sedge Warbler 7 (2 rec)
Icterine Warbler 1
Whitethroat 10 (6 rec)
Garden Warbler 1
Willow Warbler 1
Great Tit 3 (1 rec)
Reed Bunting 8 (2 rec)
Yellow wagtail 1
Reed warbler 23 (11 rec)
Blue tit 5 (2rec)
Yellowhammer 2
Thrush nightingale 1 rec
CBS, APN, MLA, PBN & MMJ.
Observations – The little bustard remained on Hammermaden. A Red kite was seen on Nynäs.
MMJ