K and L are trainees so we got them involved and Keith in particular got a few cool ringing 'ticks' towards his training log.
The main birding issue of the day was a short pulse of Meadow Pipit passage resulting in 89 ringed. Despite the poor weather we still managed a very creditable 202 new birds plus a Reed Bunting retrap--probably from one of the two previous years We have now been here a week, and have ringed 1716 birds of 31 species, and have added 4 new species to the Nesseby list--Blue Tit, Siberian Tit, Bullfinch and of course Barred Warbler. Things are going well--but we have not yet experienced the mass, sustained movement of birds that we had last year--but we still have another 6 days......
Col holding court with the pupils.
The kids from Vestre school really got involved with the process.
Finally-apologies for the pun in the title.....
Please see Charlie's blog for further details http://varangerringing.blogspot.co.uk
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