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It's been a while since I was out trying to catch a nightjar, but yesterday it was time again. The evening was not really good for nightjar caught, except that there was no wind. Even when the sun went down it started to become hazy and humid, and that is not any good weather for nightjars. They began to sing at 22:45 and a half hour later was the evening's sing over wen the fog thickened even more. I went to a place where I almost caught a bird several weeks ago, but it saw the net and flew away at that time. When I started the CD player so there was a female flying direct, and she flew into the net, but too high and too close to one of the posts as she bounced out again. After a while, so there was a male flying, and he made just one turn before he flew into the net and was caught. It was this year's 36th Nightjar and that's probably a couple weeks left in the season, so it'll be a few more. When i can not catch anymore so I'll try to look for some nestlings to ring before they start to fly. We sat on the last sunlightlog last week, so that part of the project is finished for this year. Now they just re-captured again next year, which might be a little harder. But the 12th and the last that got a light log was a male that I ringed last year in the same territory. The area where we sat light logs, it has this year been at least 84 nightjars which really are too many individuals to choose from, but last year there were Only 42 items in the same area. We caught only those that were easy to catch, so hopefully they are as easy to catch next year. This evening I will try to catch another nightjar which also saw the net last time, and even there was a female at that time. Nattskärra ----- Nightjar.
Dimman kommer. ------- The fog is coming.
De 3 ljusa armpennorna visar att det är en 2K-fågel ------ The 3 brightner secondaries indicate that was a bird born last year.
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