Hi out there in the cyberspace. I'm back!

I am not good at this blogging thing. Can't remember to update.

Here is some picture ´s from my period at Landsort bird station this spring.

Collared flycatcher

Snipe

Here is two happy ringers

I'm holding this beauty.

Firecrest, Regulus ignicapillus

It's very few ringed this far north.

First ringing this year

Finally! I manged to get to the bird station for a few days. The weather allowed me to ring only for two out of six days. I ringed just 64 birds and controlled 20. But that is ok becouse it's early days in the migration. And it have been cold to.
So I stod on the shore to watch the migration of common eider. It was an impressiv show of the common eider. More the 18 000 of them past by to the north on sunday. And just after I left the island my friends that stayed for un other night spotted an king eider and an little auk. Both of them not supposed to be in the baltic sea. That's birding.

Landscape

Pictures from my parents house.

My cabin. And far away down the lake are my CES project.

Not one bird was ringed during my stay. Nine day that where spoiled because of winter. Teperature between - 15 to -25 degrees C. And on top of that I got a cold.

To Cold!

It's 18 degrees Celsius below zero. And it is just to cold for ringing birds to day. I seems to be cold for an period so my visit up north seems to be a lazy one. Just visit friends or laying on my back reading. Out there in the cold isn't for me. And I didn't prepere for it either. Bad me!

Anything can happen

What can happen when you ring birds. I have had humans in the net. Dogs, fox and deer that went throu, toads, snake, vole, a cat (for a second), many different kinds of insects, and a lot of tvigs and stuff that shouldent be there.

Wrong colored scarlet rosefinch.



One of three lizzard that exist in sweden

Kestrel pullus ringing, in a barn next to my parents house.

What an exellent photografer! Can you see the olw? It's just there in the middle. Wonder who took that snapshot. He or she could make a lot of money.

I'm tired! Release me!

Resting after being released from the mist net

One of these dangerous poisonous snakes in sweden. (the only one, and it's not that dangerous)

More first ever ringed

Lesser spotted woodpecker. My first. Ringed on the Eggegrund birdstation. I was there for a week. Alone. It's an island whith no inhabitans. A former lighthouse station. A boat lift out on a saturday and then the boat returns a week later. No one to interfere with, just the birds and me. And ten stupid! sheeps walking around the nets. I ringed over tousen birds in that week. I was pleased with that.

Parrot crossbill, female.

Long ear olw (asio otus) Landsort birdstation. I got two olws in two nights a row. Lucky me! (I can't tilt the picture, don't know how)

went a little cuckoo!

This one flew in mistnet. Not over.

Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) My first ringed. His a little rugged becouse he was tangled in the net very hard. 1k or hatch year.