Revtangen BO May 15th

Finally a day with little wind. Almost no wind in the early morning, from around 10 a 3-4 m/s westerly breeze. Not ideal, but the nets were up all day from 05.30-19.30, 40 new birds trapped was decent given the lack of eastern winds. Netmeterhours = approx.4600. 

Ringed: Wood pigeon 2, collared dove 6, barn swallow 2,  meadow pipit 3, "Greenland" wheatear 2, sedge warbler 5, common whitethroat 3, lesser whitethroat 1, blackcap 1, willow warbler 1, starling 2, tree sparrow 1, house sparrow 2, greenfinch 3, linnet 1, lesser redpoll 4. Total = 40. Also 21 controls.

Ringmerket: Ringdue 2, tyrkerdue 6, låvesvale 2, heipiplerke 3, steinskvett (leucorhoa) 2, sivsanger 5, tornsanger 3, møller 1, munk 1, løvsanger 1, stær 2, pilfink 1, gråspurv 2, grønnfink 3, tornirisk 1, brunsisik 4. Total = 40. Også 21 kontroller. 

A record 7 collared doves were trapped today. 1 control of a bird ringed in June 2014 and 6 new birds. 7 tyrkerduer ble fanget i dag, en kontroll fra juni 2014 og 6 nymerkinger. 

Sightings: Red-throated divers and arctic terns were moving over the sea, we counted 27 of the first and 70-100 of the latter, but we spent very little time looking at the sea. There was also a small movement of hirundines along the sanddunes, both house martins, sand martins and barn swallows but only in small numbers. Gadwall two males and one female flew over, black-tailed godwit ca. 5 displaying, golden plover 30-40, whimbrel heard.  

Håvard Husebø og Alf Tore Mjøs