A quick update on todays events! Although a generally poor day for ringing - we only caught seven birds due to the strong winds. Despite this we, or more accurately KAY, reached a milestone and achieved a record for the Observatory since ringing started here in 1978. Not bad for someone who has been here for just 57 days.
So, what is this momentous event?? Today Kay ringed her 26th Great Spotted Woodpecker since arriving here. This puts her a clear one ahead of the previous record held by two long-term ringers here; Pelle (who has ringed 16,000+ birds here) and Mattias (who has ringed the most out here at 22,000+). Good effort Gal and not too much blood on the fingers.
Gannets
Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Monday, 7 October 2013
A mixed week this week. On Monday we caught a Sparrowhawk that had already been ringed in Finland so we are waiting to hear where and when it was first caught! Kay also ringed a Fieldfare and six Long-tailed Tits of the Scandinavian race - see pics - and Chris went briefly to Ankerudden, where our vehicle is parked, to check the battery wasn't flat etc.
After a brief excursion into the realms of 'ringing' and hence reaching 200, Chris returned to the role of 'scribe', just in time for Kay to ring a cracking Arctic Redpoll - again, see pics!! The low point of the week, though inevitable, was that the Fox which had been taking birds out of the nets was shot. Although it had to be, no-one was happy with it as he had become a feature of our days.
Tore, who has become a firm friend out here, kindly took the pair of us out on the Pilot boat one afternoon, picking up a pilot at Ankerudden and then dropping him off on a cargo boat out at sea. it was then a quick trip back to pick up two more pilots before taking them out to two more boats. A great couple of hours on the water, and a change from ringing.
Sunday proved to be our busiest day yet of the trip. At last light winds, overcast conditions and birds combined to give us a daily ringing total of 311, mainly Redpoll. That day a grand total of 445 birds were ringed on the island. At last Autumn migration has changed up a gear!!!
After a brief excursion into the realms of 'ringing' and hence reaching 200, Chris returned to the role of 'scribe', just in time for Kay to ring a cracking Arctic Redpoll - again, see pics!! The low point of the week, though inevitable, was that the Fox which had been taking birds out of the nets was shot. Although it had to be, no-one was happy with it as he had become a feature of our days.
Tore, who has become a firm friend out here, kindly took the pair of us out on the Pilot boat one afternoon, picking up a pilot at Ankerudden and then dropping him off on a cargo boat out at sea. it was then a quick trip back to pick up two more pilots before taking them out to two more boats. A great couple of hours on the water, and a change from ringing.
Sunday proved to be our busiest day yet of the trip. At last light winds, overcast conditions and birds combined to give us a daily ringing total of 311, mainly Redpoll. That day a grand total of 445 birds were ringed on the island. At last Autumn migration has changed up a gear!!!
| For those in doubt!! These are birds caught and ringed | |||
| Not birds seen!!!! | |||
| Week-ending 6th October 2013 | |||
| Species | Kay | Chris | |
| Treecreeper | 14 | 0 | |
| Yellow-browed Warbler | 1 | 1 | |
| Goldcrest | 127 | 15 | |
| Chiffchaff | 23 | 0 | |
| Chiffchaff abietinus | 1 | 0 | |
| Chiffchaff collybita | 1 | 0 | |
| Red-breasted Flycatcher | 8 | 5 | |
| Icterine Warbler | 2 | 3 | |
| Lesser Whitethroat | 121 | 11 | |
| Pied Flycatcher | 9 | 0 | |
| Marsh Warbler | 0 | 1 | |
| Common Redpoll | 147 | 190 | |
| Common Redpoll flammea | 100 | 11 | |
| Common Redpoll cabaret | 29 | 6 | |
| Arctic Redpoll | 1 | 0 | |
| Redstart | 25 | 1 | |
| Bluethroat | 0 | 2 | |
| Reed Warbler | 2 | 0 | |
| Robin | 317 | 56 | |
| Marsh Tit | 4 | 1 | |
| Sedge Warbler | 2 | 0 | |
| Siskin | 50 | 0 | |
| Spotted Flycatcher | 32 | 5 | |
| Whinchat | 2 | 0 | |
| Wren | 17 | 1 | |
| Willow Warbler | 174 | 15 | |
| Coal Tit | 5 | 2 | |
| Dunnock | 8 | 1 | |
| Long-tailed Tit | 6 | 0 | |
| Wood Warbler | 5 | 1 | |
| Blackcap | 227 | 23 | |
| Blue Tit | 36 | 4 | |
| White Wagtail | 13 | 1 | |
| Wheatear | 1 | 0 | |
| Chaffinch | 23 | 5 | |
| Garden Warbler | 46 | 5 | |
| Tree Pipit | 8 | 1 | |
| Goldfinch | 0 | 0 | |
| Whitethroat | 16 | 7 | |
| Rustic Bunting | 0 | 1 | |
| Brambling | 2 | 0 | |
| Reed Bunting | 14 | 0 | |
| Yellow Wagtail | 1 | 0 | |
| Common Rosefinch | 4 | 2 | |
| Great Tit | 38 | 4 | |
| Nuthatch | 1 | 0 | |
| Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | 1 | 1 | |
| Greenfinch | 67 | 11 | |
| Thrush Nightingale | 3 | 1 | |
| Tree Sparrow | 5 | 0 | |
| Bullfinch | 1 | 0 | |
| Yellowhammer | 8 | 0 | |
| Red-backed Shrike | 18 | 4 | |
| Great Spotted Woodpecker | 24 | 1 | |
| Blackbird | 10 | 1 | |
| Nightjar | 0 | 0 | |
| Fieldfare | 1 | 0 | |
| Song Thrush | 56 | 6 | |
| Cuckoo | 1 | 0 | |
| Sparrowhawk | 8 | 2 | |
| Kestrel | 1 | 0 | |
| Totals | 1867 | 408 | |
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