Results of September

Autumn migration starts here in August. For local breeders often hard to divide after breeding movings and beginning of migration. By catches we could see period of activity for some birds. Most of Radde's Warblers were caught in the period 31 August - 13 September, Palla's Warblers - 9 - 26 September and for these species we can be sure that this is real migration time.

August

In the beginning of August youngs of Brown Shrike, Thick-billed Reed Warbler and Richard's Pipit started to get into our nets and Brown Shrikes had been biting us for the whole Month.

Results of July

In July juveniles appeared making our job more complicated. First were caught on the 5th of July. It was local birds: Long-tailed and Willow Tits. First youngs of migrants were caught on the 12 of July - Olive-backed Pipits. Other youngs this month were three Flycatcher species: Taiga, Dark-sided and Brown; Siberian Rubythroat, Black-faced Bunting, usual breeding bird of our villages - Daurian Redstart and some others.

In July we caught 209 birds of 22 species.

Olive-backed Pipit (Anthus hodgsoni), juv.

June - Month of Warblers

Busy season ended, migrating birds flew away to the South, Siberia is covered by snow. It's time to write about our results. Start from June as information about May was the last. 

In June we caught 491 birds, most numerous were Radde's Warbler (Phylloscopus schwarzi), Thick-billed Reed Warbler (Phragmaticola aedon) and Dusky Warbler (Phylloscopus fuscatus). New for our station was Grey Tit (Parus Cinctus). 

Thick-billed Reed Warbler (Phragmaticola aedon)

Summary for May

For May we ringed 1118 birds of 63 species. Most numerous were Little Bunting – 191 birds. Most busy days were 18^th and 24^st of May when we caught 309 and 114 birds. In the list of ringed species now are 127 species with 7 new one added: Common Buzzard, Black Woodpecker, Rook, Isabelline Shrike, Beringian Yellow Wagtail,  Pale Martin and Paddyfield Warbler. 

Pale Martin (Riparia diluta)

New species

On the 29th of May we caught Paddyfield Warbler (Acrocephalus agricola) – first registration for our station and for Baikalsky Biosphere Reserve.

New species for our station

Yesterday we caught Eastern Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla tschutschensis), look here).
Today Isabelline Shrike (Lanius isabellinus) was caught in Big Trap. 

The best ringing day for five years

First half of May was extremely poor on ringed birds. Maybe because of bad weather: sun-shining, no wind, one day it was more than 20°C even (note: we have good catches in spring mostly when it's cloudy and windy)!!! Three times it was too much wind with snow so we had to close mist nets, put down Ribachinskaya trap and observing lots of birds flying by. 

Finally today, 18th of May, the weather is improved: nice wind, temperature about 5 degrees, all sky closed by heavy clouds!

First spring encounters

Spring for Red-breasted Mergansers (Mergus serrator)

Continuing first observation list of birds in spring. Beginning look here and here.

April

27th                Emberiza pusilla    

Summary for April

For April we ringed 892 birds of 38 species. Most numerous were Red-flanked Bluetails – 384 birds. Most busy days were 17^th and 21^st of April when we caught 93 and 95 birds. In the list of ringed species now are 120 species with two new one added: Great Grey Shrike and Mistle Trush.

Pallas's Reed Bunting, female (Emberiza pallasi)