Guests from France and Denmark

The Lesser Whitethroat bonanza kept on going and with this many curruca's a foreign retrap is almost inevitable. And thus, this was proved! Yotam kept telling us: check both legs, check both legs! And as we were ringing all the curruca's I pulled a curruca out of the bag, with a worn ring on the left leg: Paris! Not much later Roni came back with more news: he just got a Lesser Whitethroat out of the net carrying a Danish ring! Having foreign retraps in Israel is already pretty rare, let alone two on one day! The recovery of the Lesser Whitethroat with the French ring was a first for Israel, pretty cool.

This is where we sleep, the iglo!

The morning hours were really busy with birds, after that it slowed down a bit but we still had good birds. 450 birds were caught today! 

In the afternoon we did some trap fixing, since Heligoland trap 5 was severly broken by the strong winds in February. We started with re-making the cage again, hopefully we can repair the Heligoland trap soon, so we can catch birds with it again! 

Below a couple of pictures from today, be prepared!

 Cyprus Warbler (Sylvia melanothorax), 2cy male, just beautiful!

Balkan Wagtail (Motacilla flava feldgegg), probable adult male

 Crag Martin (Ptynonoprogne rupestris), a species seldomly ringed here at the IBRCE! It was both a ringing tick for Yotam and Yael. 

 Balkan Warbler (Phylloscopus orientalis)

Eastern Black-eared Wheater (Oenanthe melanoleuca), female

Daily total:

Balkan Wagtail 1 -

Balkan Warbler 4 - 1

Barn Swallow 28 -

Blackcap 27 -

Bluethroat - 1

Chiffchaff 8 - 7

Common Whitethroat 26 - 1

Crag Martin 1 -

Cretzchsmar's Bunting 1 -

Cyprus Warbler 1 -

Eastern Black-eared Wheatear 2 -

Eastern Oliveceous Warbler 3 -

Eastern Orphean Warbler 21 - 2

House Martin 51 -

House Sparrow 4 - 2

Lesser Whitethroat 185 - 19

Menetries's Warbler - 1

Quail 1 - 1

Red-rumped Swallow 25 - 2

Redstart 5 -

Reed Warbler 2 -

Sardinian Warbler - 1

Savi's Warbler 1 -

Sedge Warbler 1 - 1

Silverbill 1 -

Spanish Sparrow 2 - 1

White-spectacled Bulbul 1 - 1

Woodchat Shrike 1 - Total 410 - 42 (including foreign recaptures) = 452!