Revtangen BO July 25th

Nets open 08-12, but windy and not very efficient after 9. Netmeter hours approx. 1000. Playback on Green Sandpiper. In the afternoon a limited effort at trapping waders with 4 walk-in traps and some spring-traps, but with little success. 

Ringed: Green Sandpiper 2, Dunlin 7, Sanderling 1, Common Ringed Plover 1, Red Knot 1, Northern Wheatear 1, European Robin 1, Common Whitethroat 1, Willow Warbler 7, Chiffchaff 1, Great Tit 2, Common Linnet 1. Total = 26. 

Adult Red Knot, a smart-looking bird. Polarsnipe. 

 

Adult Sanderling. Sandløper.

Alf Tore Mjøs

Revtangen BO July 24th

Nets open 08-14.30. Netmeter hours ca. 1700. Sunny, light shifting breeze. Playback on Green Sandpiper. 

Ringed: Green Sandpiper 1, Meadow Pipit 1, Northern Wheatear 1, Common Blackbird 1, Sedge Warbler 1, Common Whitethroat 1, Willow Warbler 8, Chiffchaff 3, Common Starling 1, House Sparrow 2, Chaffinch 3, European Goldfinch 1, Commoin Linnet 1, Yellowhammer 1. Total = 26. 

European Goldfinch, 2cy+ female. Stillits, 2K+ hunn.

Alf Tore Mjøs

Revtangen BO July 23rd

Light easterlies in the morning turning west. part cloudy and rather warm, around 21 degrees C. Nets open 06.30-20, netmeter hours approx. 4300. Playback on Green Sandpiper and Common Linnet. 

Ringed: Green Sandpiper 2, Collared Dove 1, Meadow Pipit 1, White Wagtail 1, European Robin 1, Sedge Warbler 1, Common Whitethroat 2, Willow Warbler 13, Chiffchaff 1, Great Tit 3, Coal Tit 2 (first this season), Common Starling 9, House Sparrow 3, Chaffinch 6, Greenfinch 1, Lesser Redpoll 1, Common Linnet 8, Reed Bunting 1. Total = 57. 

Moth trapping has been disappointing this July with no surprises in the traps. But we did find some larva of this Puss Moth in our willows....

Renate Berg, Asbjørn Folvik, Atle Espen Helgesen and Alf Tore Mjøs.

Revtangen BO July 22nd

Nets open 08.30-20. Playback on Green Sandpiper and Common Linnet. Netmeter hours approx. 3300. 

Ringed: Green Sandpiper 4, Wood Pigeon 1, Collared Dove 1, Barn Swallow 1, White Wagtail 3, Common Blackbird 1, Fieldfare 1, Sedge Warbler 2, Common Whitethroat 1, Willow Warbler 9, Chiffchaff 1, Great Tit 1, Common Starling 2, House Sparrow 4, Tree Sparrow 1, Chaffinch 2, Greenfinch 2, Lesser Redpoll 2, Common Linnet 6. Total = 46. Also 9 controls. 

Renate Berg and Alf Tore Mjøs 

Revtangen BO July 20th

Nets open 10-16. Netmeter hours approx. 1600. 

Ringed: Wood Pigeon 1, White Wagtail 1, Northern Wheatear 2, Fieldfare 1, Common Whitethroat 1, Willow Warbler 3, Common Starling 2, Greenfinch 1, Common Linnet 2. Total = 14.  

Revtangen BO July 19th

Nets open 09-21.30. Light winds, mainly from west. Playback on Green Sandpiper. Netmeter hours approx. 4000.

Ringed: Green Sandpiper 3, Collared Dove 3, White Wagtail 4, Meadow Pipit 3, Northern Wheatear 4, Sedge Warbler 3, Willow Warbler 5, Chiffchaff 1, Great Tit 1, Common Starling 12, House Sparrow 8, Tree Sparrow 1, Greenfinch 3, Common Linnet 2. Total = 53. Also 12 controls. 

Renate Berg, Atle Espen Helgesen and Alf Tore Mjøs. 

Revtangen OS July 18th

Most nets open 09-14.30. Playback on Green Sandpiper. 

Ringed: Green Sandpiper 2, Eurasian Collared Dove 1, Barn Swallow 1, Willow Warbler 3, Chiffchaff 1, Great Tit 5, Common Starling 2, House Sparrow 1, Chaffinch 1, Common Linnet 2. Total = 19. Also 4 controls. 

The ponds we created in 2015-2016 are part of an effort to trap Green Sandpiper and Grey Wagtail. The first two Green Sandpipers of the season were ringed today. They are colourringed with a red marker on the left tibia and a yellow flag with a 3-letter inscription on the right tibia. Skogsnipe.

Alf Tore Mjös

Revtangen BO July 17th

No trapping the last weeks, the end of June was mainly bad weather, then the first week of July we were busy ringing gull chicks, then another windy and wet week followed. A careful start to the autumn trapping season this afternoon from 16-21 produced 41 birds: 

Merlin 1, White Wagtail 1, Northern Wheatear 1, Common Blackbird 1, Willow Warbler 2, Great Tit 5, Common Starling 3, House Sparrow 6, Tree Sparrow 12, European Greenfinch 6, Lesser Redpoll 2, Common Linnet . Also 15 controls. 

Merlin, 2cy female. Dvergfalk, 2K F. 

Alf Tore Mjøs