Den här bloggen kommer att handla om mitt projekt med Nattskärror i mellersta Kalmar län. Projektet går ut på att fånga och ringmärka Nattskärrorna för att studera flyttvägar, ortstrohet, övervintringsområden, biotop samt inventering av befintligt bestånd. -------------------------------- This blog will be about my project with Nightjars in central Kalmar county. The project aims to capture and ring Nightjars to study the migratory routes, local loyalty, wintering areas and habitat.
måndag 30 juli 2012
En gammal bekant. -------- An old friend.
måndag 23 juli 2012
En konstig Nattskärra. ----- A strange Nightjar.
lördag 21 juli 2012
Dåligt med uppdateringar. --------- Poorly with updates.
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It has been bad with the updates here recently. The reason is that I have not been out as much as it has been raining almost every day, and then it will be cold and damp to the night. This makes the Nightjars shurring very sporadic and being harder to catch. I've still been out a few times between rain showers and caught a few Nightjars. Last couple of days ago I took a female who had an egg in the stomach, and it's getting late for the chicks to have time to be flight ready in time. At the last moment that I was out so I caught 3 males in just 2 hours, but was then forced to finish off the night because I fell and hurt of the handle to the CD player, batteries ran out and the rain was about to enter. I have now designed a new CD player through a car stereo and speakers built into a box, so in the next few days, I will test it. It's very good sound in it and that will be heard in the distance of the Nightjars. Coming week, so it seems that the summer weather finally stabilize with sun and heat, but it's getting late in the season for catching birds, but I'll give it a try.
De brukar stanna ett tag i handen innan de flyger iväg. -------- They will stay for a while in my hand before take off.
onsdag 11 juli 2012
Nu är det riktigt bra!
De senaste 2 nätterna har det varit riktigt bra fart på Nattskärrorna. Det är gott om spelande skärror och många spelar hela natten igenom, så det är bara att välja och vraka vilka man ska prova att fånga. 6 st har blivit märkta dessa 2 nätter och om det fortsätter så här ett tag till så kan jag nog fånga lite mer än fjolårets 44 ex. Jag är nu uppe i strax över 30 fångade ex än så länge. Spelaktiviteten brukar avta när äggen kläcks har jag märkt tidigare år, så vi får se när det blir i år. För 2 nätter sedan så fångade jag en hona och hon hade ett ägg i magen men ingen utvecklad ruvfläck än. Så om hon är riktvisande för hela beståndet så är det minst närmare tre veckors fångst kvar. I år har jag också satsat på att optimera fångstmöjligheterna så mycket som möjligt, och jag tror att det gett önskad effekt. Så i ett senare inlägg tänkte jag presentera vad jag gjort och kommit fram till. Om några timmar så väntar ännu en natt i skogen när jag slutat jobbet, och vädret verkar bli lite bättre än de senaste nätterna så jag ser fram mot natten.
söndag 1 juli 2012
Äntligen nattskärrenatt.----- Finally Nightjar night.
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The last night was one of those great night with good activity at Nightjars all night. The weather was much warmer than it has been the past few weeks, so that was probably what made the nightjars finally got activated. We certainly heard up to 30 shurring Nightjars at night, and we also saw a lot of flying around. To be as efficient as possible this last night in the area for a while, we went quickly to the next when we noticed that they were not interested. We covered a lot of nettimes during the few hours of darkness, and we managed to catch 2 nightjars during the night. The first was one that we caught and put lightlog on for just a week ago, but the second was much more interesting. We have tried to catch one about 2 km further north along the road, but the one who sits there and plays have shown weak interest to be caught, so we have not managed to catch it. We suspect that there is a bird that we logged last year in the same place, so it's been particularly interesting to try to catch it. The second we caught last night was this bird! A little worn ring around the leg and a lightlog of his back did that tonight we could take the second bird of the ones we put lightlog of last year. Unfortunately, it has been shown that the log had sat down in sleepmode position some day, so it has to be sent off to see if there is any data on it. The second log is now empty of data and it has worked properly, so when the material is processed, we will see where it spent the winter in Africa.