Revtangen BO September 3rd

Easterlies and cloudy, a few very light showers but we also saw the sun a few times. The wind picked up late morning and was a little too strong for efficient trapping i most nets for the rest of the day. Nets open 05.30-18, netmeter hours approx. 4100. Playback on reed warbler and garden warbler through the night and early morning, but no noticeable fall today. Probably the heavy rain that has battered SE Norway the last couple of days are stopping the arrivals from the east. Playback on meadow pipit 07-18, tree pipit and barn swallow 09-16. 

Ringed: Collared dove 1, barn swallow 13, meadow pipit 97, tree pipit 4, redstart 1, whinchat 1, european robin 3, sedge warbler 2, garden warbler 6, blackcap 3, common whitethroat 1, lesser whitethroat 1, willow warbler 5, spottet flycatcher 1, tree sparrow 9. Total = 148. Also 12 controls, including the barred warbler ringed on the 1st.   

Ringmerket: Tyrkerdue 1, låvesvale 13, heipiplerke 97, trepiplerke 4, rødstjert 1, buskskvett 1, rødstrupe 3, sivsanger 2, hagesanger 6, munk 3, tornsanger 1, møller 1, løvsanger 5, gråfluesnapper 1, pilfink 9. Total = 148. Også 12 kontroller, inkludert hauksangeren fra 1.9.

Whinchats are rarely trapped at Revtangen, this 1 cy was the second in 2015. Buskskvett 1K.

Observations: Goshawk 1, sparrowhawk 1-2, kastrel 1, merlin 1, peregrine 2, yellow wagtail 1. 

Håvard Husebø and Alf Tore Mjøs