20th July 2015
Staff: APN, MMJ, CBS, TMJ, LDC, JRD, HAN
Weather: Pretty calm but cloudy at first light, showers mid-day, clearing during late afternoon.
Projects: Great reed warblers, Ringing.
Great reed warblers
JRD and TMJ went to Fågelsjön, Rysjön and Slottsviken and checked nests and found a newly hatched chick in one nest in Slottsviken.
Standardised ringing
Cold and cloudy morning resulting in a meager yield at Banvallen. The whole morning amounted to some 36 birds of 12 species, 24 of them new and 12 retrapped. New birds caught were as follows:
Song Thrush 1
Robin 1
Thrush Nightingale 1
Garden Warbler 1
Whitethroat 2
Sedge Warbler 2
Reed Warbler 1
Willow Warbler 12
Blue Tit 2
Greenfinch 1
Observations
A Honey Buzzard was seen among several other raptors at a recently mowed field. HAN went to see the Little Bustard, which is still at Hammarmaden.
HAN