Dagbok SFOS

Nets were
open just at 4am today, the sky was still partly cloudy but you could already
feel that it would be a sunny day. There was not much wind in the morning but it
increased slowly and then decreased again. 40 birds were ringed today:
26
willow warblers, 1 common redpoll and 3 lesser redpolls,1 blackcap, 5 lesser
whitethroat, 2 redstarts, 1 song trush and the first dunnock since I am here (but
not the first of the season).

The total
amount of birds for this spring is now 1480 birds.

The wind
was strong at 4am and I hesitated about opening the nets. In the end, I decided
to open only the 4 ones by the house, and I think it was the right decision. I
had a couple of small showers in the early morning as well as a more heavy hail.
At 8am, the wind got even stronger and I decided to close. I opened more nets
when the wind dropped and kept them open through all afternoon but there were
few birds around. Today, 1 blackbird, 6 willow warblers, 2 redstarts, 1
redpoll,
1 robin, 2 blackcaps, 1 garden warbler and 1 whitethroat were ringed.

I’ve kept
myself busy by watching the sea in the morning and spotted a white tail eagle
far away.

After
yesterday, today seemed quiet. However, it was not so bad in the morning, there were

still some birds around and the first rounds were rewarding. But from 8 o’clock, it got suddenly
calm: the sun was shining, making nets more visible and the birds had definitely moved on.
A walk on the island confirmed there was still a good amount of birds but there were more in
the Northern tip of the island.

Anyway, the amount of birds ringed today was not bad at all with 85 new bird ringed. Again,
mainly willow warblers but also a few blackcaps(7), whitethroats (3) and lesser whitethroats (5)
and surprisingly more wrens than yesterday (4).

Today included,
we have now reached 1425 birds ringed this year.

Today, some
slight rain was expected in the morning. I opened at 4am
hoping it wouldn’t be
to strong. There was a lot of activity in the bushes,
and with the threathening
weather I decided to open only 11 nets. That
was enough by far! This has been
an outstanding day of ringing and could
have been even better if it wasn’t for
the rain. At one point Terje and
Morten helped me out, but we had to close
because the rain got heavier.
We opened again after lunch, only a few nets, but
they kept us busy.

In the end,
it has been an incredible day for willow warblers.
290 of these little birds
were ringed today. We had quite a lot of species,
and reached 393 birds ringed
today.

Moreover we
had a retrap of a collared dove, not many of them come
to the island.

And last but
not leat, in the late afternoon, I got a retrap of a willow
warbler ringed in Portugal!
Well done, willow!

Here is the
list of the species and numbers ringed today:

willow warbler: 290

Goldcrest:
6

Chiffchaff:14

Lesser
whitethroat: 9

Wren:2

Redstart: 9

Pied flycatchers: 10

Robins: 19

Blackcap:13

Garden
warbler: 5

Whithroat:4

Tree pipit:
2

Icterine
warbler: 3

Chaffinch:1

Songtrush:
3

Blackbird:1

Fieldfare:
1

I checked at 4am and again at 7am, but the weather forecast was accurate: it rained all
morning and until 6pm. As a result, there was no ringing today. There was also a dense fog on
the sea, so seabirds were not easely spotted.

Hopefully, tomorrow, the conditions seem good!

The nets
were open at 4am this morning, there was a little bit more activity than yesterday
and
it was even less windy. Even though the first two rounds were quiet, it
seemed obvious that
birds were on their way and from approximately 7am to 10
am, the island has been invaded by
willow warblers. Some of them were singing
and others were just spotted going from one bush
to the other. From 10 onwards,
the wind changed to the South, increased slowly and the birds
left. In the end,
it has been a good ringing day with 89 birds ringed today among which 78
willow
warblers. This raises them to the first place of number of individuals per
species ringed
this year. Just now, they beat the robins: 238 robins were
ringed since the beginning of the
season against 305 willow warblers! All in
all, the total amount of birds ringed this year so far
reaches 947.

Apart for
willow warblers and robins, the other species ringed today were chiffchaffs(2),

blackcap(1), lesser whitethroat (1), redstart (1), blackbird(1) and songtrush(1).

Tomorrow, we are expecting some rain.

Nets were
open at 4 this morning in a very quiet and silent dawn. Very few blackbirds started

singing and there was no wind which made the atmosphere even more peaceful. The
sun came
up and it has been a bright day with almost no clouds. The wind
changed direction from North
to South during the day and picked up at some
point.

20 birds
were ringed today: 16 willow warblers, 1 songtrush, 1 robin and 2 redpolls.

It had been
raining through the night and the sky was heavy with dark clouds when I woke up

this morning. It was promising to be a good day of ringing. Some trushes and
blackbirds where
whistling. By 1 o’ clock, the wind increased again with a slight rain and I closed a
few nets,
trying to keep the one near the house open a little bit longer. These
ones allowed me to ring
the linnets and a few warblers.

In the end,
I ringed 49 birds today, with a few trushes (1 redwing, 2 songtrush, 1 blackbirds),
a
good number of willow warblers (37), 2 robins, 2 chiffchaffs, 1 wren and 3
linnets