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Three lapland longspurs ringed today, and lots of meadow pipit movement. It seems that autumn migration is kicking off up north in Vardø :honk:

Had two new species in the nets yesterday, a common snipe and a magpie :blobaww:

The day resulted in: 77 species ringed, 7 retraps, 11 species. Most abundant species still the redpoll.

Species ringed: common snipe, magpie, redpoll, willow warbler, sedge warbler, redwing, house sparrow, greenfinch, wheatear, bluethroat, meadow pipit.

First wood warbler ringed in the Finnmark county, first wood warbler observation for Vardø, and first since 2011 on the Varanger peninsula

83 birds in the net yesterday. 74 received a ring, 9 were retraps that had a ring from before. Total of 10 species, mostly redpolls, but a flock of redwings, wheatears, and greenfinches passed through the nets as well.

Species ringed: willow warbler, sedge warbler, redpoll, twite, greenfinch, bluethroat, wheathear, redwing, rock pipit, meadow pipit.

Fattest greenfinch banded so far this year, the whole 32.3 grams. Second year female 🐥

Handled with a license.

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Most (adult) redpolls in the net are now in wing moult.

Lately every time I step outside a flock of pigeons comes to check me out, so decided to offer them some snacks today. This is the first time I feed them like this, typically they either eat from the sparrow-feeder or just watch us from the roof, surprised they jumped on me at once :woodpigeon:

forget about LLMs, gonna outsource my thinking to the backyard pigeons :woodpigeon:

Mr & Mrs Redpoll got a ring today

The king eider has arrived in town 🥰

The past few days a male king eider has been hanging out with a flock of around 30 steller's eiders in the harbor. Also long-tailed ducks and common eiders around.

#birding #birdPhotography #birdwatching

working on a website to show the town's ringing data 👀

Some business is promoting birding activities in our area and all of their posts are so obviously written by AI and with minimal/no proofreading.

They deleted their latest post after some started asking questions, because they claimed people visit the region to watch cattle egrets, spectacled eiders, harlequin ducks, ross’s gulls, and thousands of steller’s eiders in all the harbors.

There’s been one unverified observation of one cattle egret in a different municipality, two of spectacled eiders (and the last one from the 80s), there’s only one Ross gull a year observed and typically only for like one week, and the entire coastline had less than 500 steller’s eiders during the bird indexing this spring.

:blobthinking:

Glaucous gull youngster, in its second calendar year. One of my favorite bird/gull species. They overwinter in the north of Norway, and having them in town the past few months has been an absolute blessing.

Their Dutch name is “Grote Burgemeester” aka “large mayor”, because of their big size and big bossy personality. Definitely a fitting name if you’ve ever seen them in action, they’re tough as hell.

Als their Norwegian name is “Polarmåke”/“Polar gull”, matching their scientific name “Larus hyperboreus” (“gull of the high north”), while their English name glaucous gull refers to their color.

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@fullywoolly@mastodon.social the metal ring size is based on the species and how thick their leg gets as an adult.

We also only place them the leg is large enough and gull legs don't really get much thicker as they grow/age (especially when the bird is this size already).

So nothing will happen with the leg, ring fits now and will continue to fit 😀