Today I had some help of an Egyptian lady: Dina Mostafa. She will stay for a week and will try to learn the job here, getting birds out of the net and do the ringing. We placed the sparrowhawk net, although I have not seen any, but you never know. We replaced another net and tried to catch a skylark but it would not fly into the spejnet. We probably have to use a wooshnet for that species. The station has one I believe, but it has not been used till now.

We had a nice day, sunny and in total 34 birds (27 new and 7 recaptures). We caught the first two Gulbug/Icterine Warblers of the year and had the second Skovpiber/Tree Pipit. And a species for which I am very carefull not to present any finger to the bird, we had 3 Kernebider/Hawfiches. It was also a day with many species in total 16 different ones, which is compared with the total number of birds rather high.

Photo gallery

Number of birds caught today including recaptures

With kind regards,

Robert