After yesterday's wind the forecast for today was perfect and that is how it was. Up at 3 am to get nets open by 4-it was quickly evident that birds were on the move- big time. By 9 am we had ringed 400 new birds and still we could see flocks of passerines flying over the trapping area. This really is a migration hot spot!
Unfortunately we were caught out a little because we ran out of rings for the most regularly caught birds as Anders was on his way back from Vardo with 3000 more. Unfortunately this is a 2 hour drive so we ended up having to release almost 100 birds without rings. However we soldiered on by concentrating effort on the birds we had rings for and as can be seen we had superb results:-
Ringed plover
Dublin 1
Field fare 12
Redwing 6
Song thrush 1
Reed bunting 57
Meadow pipit 88
Blue throat 13
Brambling 34
Dun nock 7
White wagtail 1
Sedge warbler 1
Red throated pipit 4
Garden warbler 1
Lapland bunting 1
Willow tit 3
Willow warbler 71
Arctic redpoll 60
Redpoll144
Total 507
Readers who know us will not be surprised to know that we may be trying this evening for a few more waders. However, sleep is a priority because tomorrow looks like being just as
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