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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.
Nattskärran med sin ljuslogg. ------- Nightjar with his lightlog.
En upptäckt är att Nattskärrans pupill är oval. ------------Nightjars pupil is oval.
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