Article of August 23, 2012 : And one and two and three first ones!

This morning we lived a memorable morning in the station! It immediately started well with the capture of a beautiful adult male Hobby, at the opening of nets. It’s the first one for the station and a nice baptism for our canopy net! We could not stop in so good way, and then we also captured a Wryneck and a Nuthatch (which is also another first one for the station)!

This week in spite of very quiet mornings we however captured one Sedge warbler, one Great Spotted Woodpecker, one Chaffinch and yesterday one Reed bunting: again another first one for the station!

The star of the day! Hobby (Falco subbuteo).

Nuthatch (Sitta europaea).

Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus).

Wryneck : always so stange and so beautiful (Jynx torquilla).

Article of August 19, 2012 : A nice shot in the trap!

It’s not often the case, then that is worth being indicated. One morning, it’s the trap which “saved the day”!! While we hardly reached 13 captures for 200 meters of nets, trap gave us twice more birds. Besides, this morning, the trap was "not activated" ("open" and without birds songs) and while seeing some birds going inside them as we activated it. In the end, we made 31 captures in one single push (mixed group of tits, warblers, and one Pied Flycatcher: the first one of the station!).

These last days we also captured our first Sparrowhawk in the trap, the second Sedge warbler and our first foreign control of the season: a Belgian Garden Warbler!

The first one! : Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca).

Sparrowhawk, female (Accipiter nisus).

Whitethroat, beautiful male in new plumage ! (Sylvia communis).