Thursday, May 25, 2017
Failure...
Two-egg clutch of Barn Owls (Tyto alba guttata) in a wall mounted nest box located in a green suburb of Zwolle, The Netherlands. An infrared camera connection showed that one of the two breeding birds disappeared during early egg-stage (halfway April), but the true cause of failure remains unknown. The box was installed over 20 years ago and became occupied by a single Barn Owl pretty much every winter and occasionally in summer. During summer 2015 a second bird appeared and a first breeding attempt was made the following year, which also failed during early egg stage. Today the box got cleaned out, the eggs were removed and 85 pellets were collected and will be used to identify prey items.
Sunday, May 21, 2017
Phylloscopus trochilus acredula
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Training on Dutch andorinhas (May 10, 2017)
Sunday, May 7, 2017
A bit of twitching: Big Day Zwolle, The Netherlands (May 6, 2017)
1st prize: “Team Rocket (?; Jasper, Reinier & Tim)”. 120 bird species found during a 12 hour (06:00 – 18:00) bicycle ride. An equation of the previous record.
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