Revtangen BO August 14th

An increasing ESE wind during the day, part cloudy but mostly sunny. Nets were open 05-15, netmeter hours 3500. Playback on garden warbler, reed warbler and grasshopper warbler in the night and early hours, green sandpiper, barn swallow and linnet later in the morning but with little result in the rather windy conditions. 

Ringed: Sparrowhawk 1, green sandpiper 1, barn swallow 4, northern wheatear 1, grasshopper warbler 1, sedge warbler 3, reed warbler 6, common whitethroat 3, garden warbler 5, willow warbler 16, house sparrow 1, greenfinch 2, linnet 4. Total = 47. Also 3 controls. 

Ringmerket: Spurvehauk 1, skogsnipe 1, låvesvale 4, steinskvett 1, gresshoppesanger 1, sivsanger 3, rørsanger 6, tornsanger 3, hagesanger 5, løvsanger 16, gråspurv 1, grønnfink 2, tornirisk 4. Total = 47. Også 3 kontroller. 

 1 cy sparrowhawk. 1K spurvehauk. Photo: Håvard Husebø. 

1 cy kestrel. 1K tårnfalk. 

Observations: The strong easterlies produced some raptors, quite a few of them came in off the sea and looked rather tired, some sat down to rest in the bird observatory garden. One sparrwohawk was trapped but two more manged to escape the mist-nets after initially getting caught. In total around 25 kestrel, 20 sparrowhawk, 1 common buzzard, 2 marsh harrier, 2 merlin, 2 peregrine. 

Asbjørn Folvik, Håvard Husebø and Alf Tore Mjøs. 4 visitors.