Brimstone Butterfly
Gold Spot moth
Can anyone name this one?
Greyling Butterfly
Gannets
Sunday, 10 August 2014
A few of the birds we caught this week
Nuthatch
A Nuthatch, not drilling your fingers!
A fiesty juvenile Red-backed Shrike
Reed Warbler
Wood Warbler
Ytrre Karvasen
Dunlin and Sanderling feeding on the rocks
Spotted Redshank, starting to moult out of breeding plumage
Tore's boat out on Ytrre Karvasen
Ringing totals for the week- a quiet week but some good birds!
| w/e10th Aug | ||||
| Species | As at 3rd | Kay | Chris | Total |
| Barred Warbler | 2 | 2 | ||
| Blackbird | 34 | 8 | 1 | 43 |
| Blackcap | 6 | 1 | 7 | |
| Blue Tit | 17 | 17 | ||
| Blyth's Reed Warbler | 1 | 1 | ||
| Chaffinch | 7 | 1 | 8 | |
| Common Rosefinch | 5 | 5 | ||
| Dunnock | 1 | 1 | ||
| Fieldfare | 8 | 8 | ||
| Garden Warbler | 9 | 9 | 18 | |
| Goldfinch | 2 | 2 | ||
| Great Tit | 19 | 1 | 1 | 21 |
| Greenfinch | 87 | 13 | 7 | 107 |
| Greenish Warbler | 2 | 2 | ||
| House Sparrow | 1 | 1 | ||
| Icterine Warbler | 38 | 3 | 2 | 43 |
| Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | 1 | 1 | ||
| Lesser Whitethroat | 76 | 13 | 5 | 94 |
| Marsh Tit | 4 | 4 | ||
| Marsh Warbler | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| Nuthatch | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Pied Flycatcher | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Red-backed Shrike | 16 | 12 | 2 | 30 |
| Red-breasted Flycatcher | 2 | 2 | ||
| Redstart | 15 | 1 | 16 | |
| Reed Warbler | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
| Robin | 15 | 2 | 17 | |
| Song Thrush | 6 | 1 | 7 | |
| Spotted Flycatcher | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| Swallow | 49 | 49 | ||
| Thrush Nightingale | 9 | 1 | 10 | |
| Tree Sparrow | 26 | 3 | 29 | |
| Treecreeper | 3 | 3 | ||
| Wheatear | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| White Wagtail | 26 | 4 | 1 | 31 |
| Whitethroat | 39 | 6 | 5 | 50 |
| Willow Warbler | 47 | 4 | 6 | 57 |
| Wryneck | 1 | 1 | ||
| Wood Warbler | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Wren | 3 | 3 | ||
| Yellowhammer | 5 | 5 | 10 | |
| Total | 598 | 96 | 37 | 731 |
Sunday, 3 August 2014
Another hot and sunny week on Landsort, interspersed with the occassional thunder-storm, like the one last night with over 4,000 lightening strikes!! Not much rain though, but enough to reduce the immediate risk of fire.
Out of a mixed bag of birds ringed were a couple of ringing ticks, Kay got to ring two young Barred Warbler and Chris a Blyth's Reed Warbler, just the 14th to be ringed here. More Swallows took the total for the year to 58 which is 40 more than the previous best year. Icterine Warbler too have had a good year, with 54 caught so far, compared to a previous best of just 27.
Moth-trapping has been quiet, partly due to the weather. Not a lot else to report this week, it seems to have flown by without doing that much. Once the weather cools a bit there are plenty of jobs to be done, including checking the location and condition of around 200 nest boxes; but not in this heat!!!
Out of a mixed bag of birds ringed were a couple of ringing ticks, Kay got to ring two young Barred Warbler and Chris a Blyth's Reed Warbler, just the 14th to be ringed here. More Swallows took the total for the year to 58 which is 40 more than the previous best year. Icterine Warbler too have had a good year, with 54 caught so far, compared to a previous best of just 27.
Moth-trapping has been quiet, partly due to the weather. Not a lot else to report this week, it seems to have flown by without doing that much. Once the weather cools a bit there are plenty of jobs to be done, including checking the location and condition of around 200 nest boxes; but not in this heat!!!
598 birds of 40 species in just 18 days. A good start to the season!!!
| w/e 3rd Aug | ||||
| Species | As at 27th | Kay | Chris | Total |
| Barred Warbler | 2 | 2 | ||
| Blackbird | 27 | 2 | 5 | 34 |
| Blackcap | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
| Blue Tit | 14 | 3 | 17 | |
| Blyth's Reed Warbler | 1 | 1 | ||
| Chaffinch | 6 | 1 | 7 | |
| Common Rosefinch | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| Dunnock | 1 | 1 | ||
| Fieldfare | 6 | 2 | 8 | |
| Garden Warbler | 5 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| Goldfinch | 2 | 2 | ||
| Great Tit | 16 | 3 | 19 | |
| Greenfinch | 72 | 11 | 4 | 87 |
| Greenish Warbler | 2 | 2 | ||
| House Sparrow | 1 | 1 | ||
| Icterine Warbler | 23 | 5 | 10 | 38 |
| Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | 1 | 1 | ||
| Lesser Whitethroat | 50 | 15 | 11 | 76 |
| Marsh Tit | 4 | 4 | ||
| Nuthatch | 1 | 1 | ||
| Pied Flycatcher | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Red-backed Shrike | 7 | 6 | 3 | 16 |
| Red-breasted Flycatcher | 2 | 2 | ||
| Redstart | 14 | 1 | 15 | |
| Reed Warbler | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| Robin | 12 | 3 | 15 | |
| Song Thrush | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
| Spotted Flycatcher | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Swallow | 30 | 6 | 13 | 49 |
| Thrush Nightingale | 8 | 1 | 9 | |
| Tree Sparrow | 8 | 14 | 4 | 26 |
| Treecreeper | 3 | 3 | ||
| Wheatear | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| White Wagtail | 23 | 3 | 26 | |
| Whitethroat | 37 | 1 | 1 | 39 |
| Willow Warbler | 32 | 6 | 9 | 47 |
| Wryneck | 1 | 1 | ||
| Wood Warbler | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Wren | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Yellowhammer | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
| Total | 432 | 94 | 72 | 598 |
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