Ringing

Post details: A busy weekend

2007-12-09

A busy weekend

09:08:13 am, Categories: Bahrain Banding Project, additional photos

As on most weekends these day we spent Friday morning and Saturday afternoon at Badaan Farm. There are plenty of other places we could go to ring but the farm just offers the best return on our efforts in December.

Ringing station - we do sympathize and feel for those in cooler climes, Saturday evening was cool the temperature dropped I think below twenty for the first time this year. Time to get out the thermals.

Friday was a day when we caught only locally breeding species, nice to see as we build our knowledge data base on these.

Graceful Prinia Prinia gracilis

Graceful Prinia

Palm Dove Streptopelia senegalensis - interesteing moult on this bird.

Palm Dove

Saturdays' catch started with a Bluethroat and then a Stonechat
Bluethroat Luscinia svecica

Bluethroat

Siberian Stonechat Saxicola maura

Siberian Stonechat

However this Saturday evening will go down as the day of the Pipit. Brendan had noted Pipits coming in to roost in a grassy patch during the week so at 4.30pm we set out two nets in a large V. Just as we had hammered the last peg in the ground, the pipits arrived, a nice mix of Water Anthus spinoletta and Meadow Pipits Anthus pratensis. We spent an enjoyable couple of hours in the dark ringing over twenty birds of these two species.

Meadow Pipit Anthus pratensis