Don't forget that you can experience all these great species and many many more thanks to the great work being undertaken by our friends, Tormod and Elin at Biotope. Check out some of the area's highlights here.
Back to today, and it was a bizarrely slow start, something we've not been used to over the last few days. Very few birds were moving first thing once the nets were open. After the first few rounds we'd reached about 50 birds, much lower than the 150-200 we'd been getting. As the morning turned to the afternoon we needed to sort out some logistics of accommodation, so the team split and begun moving base camp for the weekend to a new lake-side location. No sooner had the first half of the team left and the nets were dripping with birds including a great double of two three-toed woodpeckers in the same net! The young male and young female bring our total to three so far for the trip, with another week still to go!
On a day of many highlights and great species, the best was saved to the end in the form of a rustic bunting! The stonking juvenile was great to see, with a fantastic rusty rump and flank pattern. We hope to catch a few more in the coming days!
20th August (387 new birds)
Rustic bunting 1
Brambling 1
Three-toed woodpecker 2
Siskin 2
Great grey shrike 1
Tree pipit 1
Willow tit 3
Siberian tit 3
Reed bunting 15
Little bunting 5
Common redpoll 34
Redstart 10
Bluethroat 24
Meadow pipit 82
Willow warbler 203
For more pictures don't forget to check out one of our ringer's blog's. Charlie's bird ringing blog can be found here. You can also check out tweets from another of our ringers, Scott Petrek, here.
With our new accommodation arrangements we'll have limited internet access until Monday. We'll try and update the blog as frequently as we can, but failing that come back on Monday for a bumper post, hopefully full of some great totals and species!
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