25th May 2015
Staff: DWE, JMY, MBR, TMJ, EKP, DHT, MTA
Weather: Sunny
Projects: Hooded Crow, Starling, Skylark, Ortolan, Great Reed Warbler.
Today DWE started up with the latter stages of the Hooded Crow project as he goes around to monitor the success of each of the 30 nests located in April. Today, 4 out of the 5 nests visited were still active, though the chicks were still too small to be able to count the beaks of from the ground.
24th May 2015
Staff: DWE, JMY, MBL, TMJ, EKP, DHT
Weather: Patchy cloud & sun
Projects: Great Reed Warbler, Skylark, Starlings, Ortolan bunting, Tawny owls
Great Reed Warbler
MBL was out on Rysjön early and found another Great Reed Warbler nest, along with two pairs building nests. Meanwhile DHT found a new male & a new female in Åslasjön; whilst out working he also noted two Temminck stints at Sörbysjön, and 7-8 little gulls over Fågelsjön.
Farmland Birds
23th May 2015
Staff: DWE, JMY, MBL, TMJ, EKP, DHT
Weather: Very sunny but stormy in the morning, less wind in the afternoon
Projects: Great Reed Warbler, Wetland survey, Skylark, Starlings, Ortolan bunting.
22nd May 2015
Staff: DWE, JMY, MBR, TMJ, EKP
Weather: Cloudy, but quite cold and windy.
Projects: Great Reed Warbler, Ortolan bunting, skylark.
MBR, DHT and TMJ were out in three different locations for the Great Reed Warbler. MBR was in Nyangen trying to catch a ringed individual but without success. It was a bad day for netting due the strong wind. DHT was in Rysjön where he could find a nest and TMJ confirmed and located a male in Fågeljön (Västra).
21st May 2015
Staff: DWE, JMY, MBR, TMJ, EKP, DHT
Weather: Sunny, wind built up during the day
Projects: Great Reed Warbler, Ortolan Bunting.
DWE joined TMJ, MBR and DHT for a morning on the Great Reed Warbler project, whilst JMY and EKP worked on tracking down the Ortolan’s heard from Torsholmen yesterday evening.
20th May 2015
Staff: DWE, JMY, MBL, TMJ, EKP
Weather: Sunny, but quite cold.
Projects: Great Reed Warbler, Ortolan bunting, skylark.
MBL & TMJ were out again early looking for Great Reed Warblers, and later DWE returned with MBL to Fågelsjön to see if they could catch and ring a male which had been heard singing . They managed to locate the bird but were not able to capture it.
19th May 2015
Staff: DWE, JMY, MBL, TMJ, EKP
Weather: A lot of rain throughout the whole day with a little bit of sun in the evening
Projects: Great Reed Warbler, Ortolan bunting.
Early in the morning, before the rain started, MBL and TMJ went out to look for Great reed warblers and their nests which they recently started to build. They were happy to find a nest in Sörbysjön. Its building is about one third complete. This is only the second nest that we`ve found so far in Kvismaren this year.
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.