Staff: Antoine, Bruno, Carlos, Hannes, Helena and Kieran.
Weather: A fantastic day to ring at Vallen. It was a sunny and calm morning with 25º degrees at the end of the session.
Ringing: Best mark for this season. 182 were caught in 7 hours, with highlights such as 7 Bearded Tits and 6 Great Reed Warblers (2 adults, one of them unringed, and 4 juveniles, one of them unringed). Furthermore we caught two new species for this season, the first Marsh Warbler and the first Grasshopper Warbler.
The summary of today’s catch goes as follows:
Species new retraps total
White Wagtail 6 0 6
Thrush nightingale 0 1 1
Whinchat 1 0 1
Sedge Warbler 28 7 35
Reed Warbler 35 12 47
Marsh Warbler 1 0 1
Great Reed Warbler 2 4 6
Grasshopper warbler 1 0 1
Garden Warbler 4 1 5
Blackcap 2 0 0
Common Whitethroat 1 9 10
Willow Warbler 7 1 8
Bearded Tit 7 0 7
Great Tit 6 1 7
Blue Tit 1 3 4
Chaffinch 3 0 3
Greenfinch 4 0 4
Reed Bunting 29 4 33
Yellowhammer 1 0 1
Sum: 139 43 182
In the afternoon, we split the ringing team up into two small teams, in order to optimize the work. Bruno, Antoine, Keiron and Helena strimmed at Äson, while Hannes and I were working in the office.
“Mañana más y mejor”
CMZ