Tuesday, October 16, 2012

A great session!

This Sunday, the morning was weard, because we haven't seen any birds migrating during the day (like tits and turdidae) but the birds are well and truly presents. All in all, this has been our best session of the year (up to now!) with 240 birds trapped. The influx continues and we capture mainly tits (mostly great tits, blue tits and almost no coal tits compared to other ringing's sites). We could also mention the capture of quite a few firecrests and goldcrests.
Since yesterday, the bad weather is returning but our number of captures are still honorable with about 80 birds by session. 
The tits are still presents and we even recaptured one Great Tit and one Blue Tit that have been ringed in Belgium! We also captured our tenth Sparrowhawk in the helgoland trap yesterday and one chaffinch this morning. 
Eurasian Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus).


Blue Tit Cyanistes caeruleus).


Goldcrest and Common Firecrest (Regulus regulus et Regulus ignicapillus).


Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs).


Coal Tit (Periparus ater).

Thanks a lot to Fabien for his help!



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