Schiermonnikoog (August 20 - 23)

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy (and all play and no work made Jack a mere toy..?), so I was off to Schiermonnikoog, a small island located in the Dutch Waddensea, for an educational as well as recreational bird ringing experience at the "Groene Glop", our bed & breakfast & ringing station (with Joop vA (and family) and Jorien vS).




At times it was crowded at the coffee table. Captures can be found on http://www.trektellen.nl







Bycatch: a Great Green Bush-Cricket Tettigonia viridissima







View towards the east, with Rottumerplaat on the horizon (where I once spent a summer looking towards the west...).




Northern wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe

Holes in a wall

Catching and ringing Sand Martins Riparia riparia occupying an artificial nesting site (a purposely placed concrete wall). Today @ Sekdoorn (Stichting Avifauna Zwolle).

Phylloscopus trochilus acredula

Northern Willow Warbler, but a very difficult ID… Captured, ringed, measured and released today @ VRS Hessenpoort, Zwolle, The Netherlands.

Training on Dutch andorinhas (May 10, 2017)

Capturing, ringing, measuring, bleeding and releasing Barn Swallows Hirundo rustica from a crowded barn in Hasselt, with Joop v.A. The cows were playing outside.

Some midwinter captures from Salreu, Portugal

Dartford Warbler (Sylvia undata) on an icy morning... (but don't bring out your skates quite yet)



The moment when you can start thawing your toes…



For my NW-European friends… A Non-Spotless Startling (Sturnus vulgaris:-)



Think he’s yelling something like “feliz ano novo!”, with an undetermined accent.

A complete list of our captures can be found on JMN's website: https://sites.google.com/site/juliomneto/blog

Ringing garden birds in Zwolle, the Netherlands (January 4, 2015)

 

Colour-ringed Tree sparrow

With Jan van Dijk (Stichting Avifauna Zwolle). 32 birds, 9 species, one recapture:


Great tit Parus major 10

Eurasian blue tit Parus caeruleus 9 (1)

European robin Erithacus rubecula 1

Common blackbird Turdus merula 3

Goldcrest Regulus regulus 1

Dunnock Prunella modularis 2

Eurasian jay Garrulus glandarius 1

House sparrow Passer domesticus 2

Eurasian tree sparrow Passer montanus 2



Eurasian jay



Goldcrest


Happy 2015!

Creeps that only come out at night

Eurasian nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus, ringed on a very early morning of September 24 2014 at Salreu, Portugal.

See also: https://sites.google.com/site/juliomneto/blog & https://sites.google.com/site/juliomneto/ringing

Ringing Yellow-crowned Bishops in Salreu (September 12, 2014)

Another early morning bird ringing-session in the marshes of Salreu, guided by Julio M. Neto. Results and more information can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/juliomneto/blog/bishopgalore

The Yellow-crowned Bishops Euplectes afer originate from Africa and are considered invasive in the area. They are currently nesting (we trapped an egg-carrying female) and “pollute” our captures. Luckily, I find them quite easy to get out of the nets.

Great work on little brown jobs in Salreu, Portugal (September 8 & 9, 2014)

More information and the results of two enjoyable mornings of ringing in the marshes of Salreu with Julio M. Neto can be found here:

September 8: https://sites.google.com/site/juliomneto/blog/alatestart
September 9: https://sites.google.com/site/juliomneto/blog/onemorebritishrecovery





European stonechat Saxicola rubicola







Cetti's warbler Cettia cetti




Common waxbill Estrilda astrild







Bluethroat Luscinia svecica
 



Tree pipit Anthus trivialis







Sedge warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus







Weighing a ..?

Second day of mist-netting in the garden in Zwolle, The Netherlands (January 28, 2014)

Eurasian Blue Tit

On this day Jan van Dijk and Joop van Ardenne appeared in the garden, and put up and operated the same 48 meters of mist-net as on January 19. Starting at 8:30 AM and working until around 3 PM. The following 67 birds were captured, ringed, measured and released (in parentheses the number of recaptures, which were all ringed at the same place on January 19). All photos were made by Fabi. 

Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus             7          (1)

Common Firecrest Regulus ignicapilla        1

Great Tit Parus major                                        11        (1)

Eurasian Blue Tit Cyanistes caeruleus          33        (5)

European Robin Erithacus rubecula               1

Common Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs            1

Redwing Turdus iliacus                                     1

Common Blackbird Turdus merula                 4          (1)

 Common Firecrest

Redwing

 Weighing a Long-tailed Tit