6th August 2015
Staff: MMJ, APN, LDC, HHT
Weather: The morning was one of little wind, nice temperature and no clouds. Around noon a brief shower passed over but the sky fairly quickly cleared up again.
Projects: Ringing.
Ringing
5thAugust 2015
Staff: APN, MMJ, LDC, , HHT
Weather: Rainy in the early morning, sunny in the afternoon
Projects: Ringing, Maintenance
Standardised ringing
Rain in the early morning did not allow to ring today.
Maintenance
4th August 2015
Staff: APN, MMJ, LDC, , HHT
Weather: sunny and windy quiet
Projects: Ringing,
Standardised ringing
Ringing took place at Vallen. 22 nets were set up. That is two less than normal because one pole got broken while setting up nets. The weather was apparently perfect, sunny and warm with no wind, but surprisingly the number of captures was not too high; 43. However, we got the happy surprise of a foreign recapture of a very big Sedge warbler (Wing=72) who came to visit us from Italy. Detailed list bellow:
3rd August 2015
Staff: APN, MMJ, LDC, , HHT
Weather: Cloudy and wet morning , getting finally sunny .Warm and sunny in the afternoon.
Projects: Ringing, Cranes, Ortolan bunting
Cranes project
86 cranes were counted at Husön at 10:00 after the standardised ringing.
Ortolan bunting
APN observed an unringed female and a juvenile Ortolan bunting at Söroslatten. Unfortunately, they did not fall into the nets. We hope to get them and colour ring them next day.
Standardised ringing
2nd August 2015
Staff: APN, MMJ, LDC, HAN, Helena
Weather: Overcast morning with sunny spells, warm and sunny in the afternoon with an increasing wind.
Projects: Ringing, Maintenance.
Standardised ringing
Ringing took place at Vallen, and was busier than it has been recently. A good number of Sedge Warblers, a male Red-backed Shrike and 3 Great Reed Warblers were the highlights caught. Full totals listed below:
1stAugust 2015
Staff: APN, MMJ, LDC, HAN
Weather: Misty in the early moning and getting finally sunny
Projects: Ringing
Standardised ringing
Ringing took place at BanVallen. High water level caused by the latest rains and a broken pole allowed us to only set up 12 nets. Not too busy morning, but we enjoyed the birds that we got, which included the Icterine warbler in the picture.
31th July 2015
Staff: APN, MMJ, LDC, HAN
Weather: Foggy , cloudy and rainy intermittently
Projects: Ringing,
Standardised ringing
Ringing took place at Vallen. A deep foggy until 6:30 am. After cloudy and rainy intermittently. In total, 50 birds of 8 species were caught, 39 of them new and 11 recaptures. Birds caught listed in detail below:
30th July 2015
Staff: APN, MMJ, LDC, HAN
Weather: Rain and sunny intermittently
Projects: Ringing, Ortolan bunting
Standardised ringing
Strong rain again at early morning did not allowed ringing at Vallen. Tomorrow looks we will have better luck! (Crossed fingers). However, from 11 to 14 the complete ringing team had the chance to let free a bit of the energy pilled up during the inactivity days. A bit of summer make us company while strimming at vallen, armed with pruning scissor, machete and the strimmer.
29th July 2015
Staff: APN, MMJ, LDC, HAN
Weather: Rain!
Projects: Ringing.
Standardised ringing
Yet another rainy day meant that ringing at Vallen was cancelled early. The raining continued for more or less the whole day, hampering attempts of ringing at Ängfallet. Instead the afternoon was spent mending nets and double-checking data. The weather forecast keeps looking grim, but we are keeping our fingers crossed for tomorrow!
HAN
28th July 2015
Staff: APN, MMJ, LDC, HAN
Weather: Rainy.
Projects: Ringing.
Standardised ringing
Rain at 4 am and 5 am frustrated the ringing at Vallen this morning. However, some ringing took place at Ängfallet later, resulting in the capture of a female Greenfinch and a juvenile Red-backed Shrike.
Office work had been done during the day, especially double checking of some ringing data.
MMJ