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Post date: Jun 13, 2016 12:28:09 PM

It was a chilly morning yesterday, with the car's thermometer merely indicating 3ºC, when I started the 5th CES session at 4am, but it soon improved so that I was wearing T-shirt at 8 am! With no wind, and a few scattered clouds, it promised to be a good bird ringing day. However, again, only 15 birds of six species were caught.

The commonest were Reed Warblers (5), followed by Sedge Warblers (4) and Robins (3), of which there were two juveniles. Also caught a new juvenile Blackbird, and retrapped a male Thrush Nightingale with an unknown ring.

One of the two juvenile Robins (Erithacus rubecula)

A Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus) on the net

The highlight of the sessions was, without doubt, a Reed Warbler that had a German (Radolfzell) ring, my first German recovery in Sweden! There was another retrap of the same species of a bird ringed at the CES in August 2014, when it was already an adult (2+).

The German ring on a Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) leg!

There was time to photograph dragonflies, and although I do not like the background, I will leave you with a female Broad-bodied Chaser, which I find absolutely gorgeous! (a photo of a male was presented in the last post).

Libellula depressa, the female

The most interesting observation was perhaps of a flock of c.20 Crossbills that flew overhead and managed to get into my microbirding list!

Júlio