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.

Olw

Here is Henrik with the first ever ringed Eurasian Tawny Owl (Strix aluco) on the birdstation. He looks more scary than the olw.

Proud ringer

My friend Henrik. Proud and teasing in the same look. He come two weeks later than me to the birdstation. He is from Denmark. And the first thing he did was to find this jack snipe( lymnocryptes minimus)in the net. He hadn't even put his stuff in to the station. Neither him or me had one of these in the nets before. And its rare on the island.

Nice birdies.

This is rewarding. After a hard day of ringing to get this handful of beauties. Long -tailed tit(aegithalos caudatus) This species are very dependent on the pack. So we release them together.

This Blogging thing isn't easy. Anyway. Here is more pictures of birds that I ringed on the first day. Barred Warbler(sylvia nisoria), red-breasted flycatcher (ficedula parva), coal tit(parus ater), crested tit(parus cristatus ), and tengmalm olw/boreal olw(Aegolius funereus). All of them rare in sweden or very hard to get in the nets on the island. The tits are extreme forest birds. The same are the olw. The warbler and the flycatcher are eastern birds (read siberian). So it was a pretty good start for my ringing period. So my thought was; how to top this? I could not top it, but I had very nice ringing the whole period. And a very good time with my mates on the birdstation. www.landsort.com/birds

This is one of the rarest birds I have ringed. It is maybe the 15 or 16:th ringed or seen in sweden. It was an fun experians. It was one of the first birds I took out of the mistnet in my autum session of nearly five weeks that I spent on Landsort Birdstation in Stockholms southern archipelago. It was one of about 5000 birds that I ringed this autum.

I'm just starting this site, and It will be fun to try this. Hope to get new insight to birdringing and friends whith the same interest.