Friday, October 12, 2012

Tit's are invading!

Great ringing week at Fort Vert station! The North East wind fulfilled all its promises with the massive arrival of tits in the end of this wednesday and thursday mornings. Altogether, 282 birds have been captured in two days; among these 74 great tits and 40 blue tits. We also captured a Yellow-browed warbler once again, as our first Wood Pigeon, a Green Woodpecker, a common Redstar and a Common Starling thanks to the helgoland trap.  
This morning, the weather deteriorated and we only did a small session with 46 captures including some few more tits.

Long tail tit (Aegithalos caudatus).

Yellow browed warbler, one more! (Phylloscopus inornatus).

This week's duet!
Great tit and Blue Tit (Parus major et Cyanistes caeruleus).

A chubby Wood Pigeon! (Columba palumbus).

Short-toed Treecreeper (Certhya brachydactyla).

Common Redstar, male  (Phoenicurus phoenicurus).

Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis).

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