Today was far better...
On the first net round we pulled a Common Buzzard (Musvåge) out of a passerine net. It seemed suitably shocked... so were we. However like most large raptors it was quite placid while the ring went on and stayed around for some photos.
Off to a good start the morning progressed steadily and we caught a further 24 birds of 10 species by 15:00, not a huge amount but a definate improvement on the past few days! Other species of interest caught today include a Linnet (Tornirisk), the second for the year, a Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Skovspurv) and a couple of Song Thrushes (Sangdrossel).
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| Adult Common Buzzard (Musvåge) - Lucy Dadour |
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Hi there
Many congratulations to the buzzard – awesome capture.
In the GFU database there is only a second individual of buzzard captured within the standard period and time and that was in back in 2001!
However, there are other captured buzzards which includes one captured 01-01-2010 (outside the standard season) and one from 22-10-2000 but seems so be a bird caught in a mistnet which was only open for two minutes – whatever the reason was! So I do not recon this counts as bird captured within the standard.
So your capture is indeed a rare one – rarer than e.g. Orioles!
Louis
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