Hello diary!
Workers: Teresa, Lena, Marianne, Friberg, Magnus, Helena and also the working guests Emilia, Dennis, August, and Bengt.
Weather: A rainy morning was followed by gradually better weather, the sky going from cloudy to "sunny with few clouds". Wind weak (at times moderate). Temperature range from around 10 degrees Celsius in the morning to around 20 degrees in the early afternoon.
Work of the day: After maybe two hours of well-deserved sleep, Magnus and Marianne set up a net to catch the same female Ortolan Bunting as yesterday morning. Instead, they ended up with two Ortolans: one 2cy male and one fledged chick. Both of these are probably the offspring of the logger female and her male. They were previously unringed but Marianne and Magnus colour-ringed them.
Nico and Helena went out for farmland surveys around Lindåsabacken and in a wide area around Nynäs. Singing Ortolan and Yellowhammer were noted roughly in the same woodland as before, and a Yellowhammer nest location might have been found. A lot of Skylarks were moving suspiciously on one location, but the distance and the number of individuals made triangulating any eventual nests difficult.
The Great Reed Warbler team did their usual paddling and bathing. Lena has a hole in her wader boots and a very wet sock.
Later, Marianne and Helena went to look at the Marsh Harrier flyways at Åslasjön. Not much new to be added there. Teresa, August and Bengt also went there, and managed to catch the pair that were the earliest to breed this season. Good job!
After dinner, the Pied Flycatcher nestboxes around Ängfallet were checked. One brood was still too young but in the other one six chicks were counted and ringed.
As this is being written, August, Lena, Marianne, and Friberg are trying to catch quails. Magnus and Nico are doing a nighttime census of "nattsångare", i.e. the kind of (mainly reed-related) species that sing at night.
House work: We are enjoying our new "fountain" (the leaking pipe outside is at times overflowing and looks like a little garden decoration). Lena tried to find the hole in her wader boots, but to no avail.
Hej då/Hasta la vista/Good bye/Salut
HHT