26th August 2015
Staff: MMJ, APN, LDC, HHT
Weather: increasing the wind along the day
Projects: Ringing
Standardised ringing
We had a bit weird morning today at vallen. Busy the first one and a half hour and, then, captures decrease amazingly fast. The morning after 7:00 was really slow; with a couple of birds per round and two persistent Reed backed shrikes falling back in the nets over an over again every round.
Garden Warbler ( Sylvia borin) 0(1)
Greenfinch ( Chloris chloris) 4
Whitethroat ( Sylvia communis) 1
Sedge Warbler ( Acrocephalus schoenobaenus) 7(1)
Reed Warbler ( Acrocephalus scirpaceus) 8
Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) 1
Marsh Warbler ( Acrocephalus palustris) 2
Blue tit (Cyanistes caruleus) 2(1)
Red-backed shrikes (Lanius collurio) 4
Great reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) 1(1)
Gold finch (Carduelis carduelis) 0(1)
TOTAL: 35 birds; 30 of them new birds and 5 recaptures.
Observations
A flock of 8 Canadian geese was today resting at the fields besides Vallen and two Great Egret were spotted flying over Fågelsjön.
As the popular Spanish say told us,Tomorrow, More and Better ! in Banvallen
MMJ