Photos of an entertaining stay on the Dutch island ‘Rottumeroog’, March 8 – 11

A colleague and I joined three other Forestry Service employees, as we made preparations for another field season out at Rottumeroog, starting on April 2^nd. Long rains, blizzards, impressive wind forces coming in from the east, bringing in low temperatures, all could not prevent us from finishing the work successfully, while having a wonderful time.

The only moment a scope got used was when an adult female Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus perched on ‘the Kaap’ for a short time, after its unsuccessful attempt to catch a Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna. The bird was not ringed.

More about this visit can be found in the near future on the Forestry Service’s blog: http://staatsbosbeheerrottum.wordpress.com