Highlights from January 2022

 For the first time in the last 10 years, I was able to spend more time ringing in January. The species composition is quite different from what I'm used to.

The highlights for this month are the two Fieldfares (Turdus pilaris) that I've ringed. Those are my first Fieldfares (for this site and in general) so you can imagine the levels of adrenaline and joy that I had.

I hope I'll have time in February as well so I could try and ring a few more of those beautiful northern visitors. For now no sign of Redwing, but there is still time.

Here are the totals for January and a few photos(and a video) of the highlights:

Middle Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Sombre Tit - 3

Blue Tit - 8

Great Tit - 37

Long-tailed Tit - 1

Firecrest - 2

Goldcrest - 1

Nuthatch - 2

Fieldfare - 2

Tree Sparrow - 5

Yellowhammer - 3

Sombre tit

Fieldfare

Fieldfare

Middle-spotted woodpecker

Goldcrest

Firecrests

Trying to catch up with blogging - Veshtica/04.02.2018

In the past year, I was unable to find time for enough ringing sessions. Anyways, I will catch up with few post about my ringing activities in 2018.

My first ringing attempt for ringing was on 04.02.2018. Unfortunately the weather was against me - sunny weather combined with winds.

The totals for the day were:
Total: 4
Great tit - 1
Blue tit - 1
Tree sparow - 1
Nuthatch - 1

Blue tit/Parus caeruleus/

Great tit/Parus major

Nuthatch/Sitta europaea

Nuthatch/Sitta europaea

Bird ringing compilation 2015 - Bulgaria

Hi everyone !!!
It's been a long,long time since my last post here. I'm sorry for the long absence, but I finally decided to continue my blogging and in the next few days I will post a lot of pictures from the past year and a half.

In this post I will gather all of the good pictures from 2015.
I hope that you will like them :)

Nuthatch

 Nuthatch

Blue tit

Great tit

Nuthatch and Greenfinch

Nuthatch

 Nuthatch

Male chaffinch

Male chaffinch

The last ringing for 2014

I know that I'm very late with this post, but I had to wait for the pictures. Around Christmas I've managed to find some time for ringing and the results were very,very good. For few days of ringing ( and few hours per day) I've ringed 48 birds from 8 species.

- Parus Major - 30
- Parus Caeruleus - 3
- Pyrrhula pyrrhula - 5
- Fringilla Coelebs -2
- Fringilla Montifringilla - 3
- Carduelis Chloris -2
- Emberiza Citrinella -1
- Parus Lugubris -2

First ringing for 2014

Couple of weeks ago, I finally made my first ringing for 2014. The results were not great, but I'm very happy that I found time to set up the mist nets. The other good news is that I managed to keep my feeder relevantly full, so even if this winter there were no ringed birds, I can say that my friends didn't starve.

For the few hours of ringing , the results were only two Great tits(Parus Major). The weather was foggy and the nets got wet very,very fast. After that there was no point of continuing.

I hope that soon, I'll find time for more ringing and more posting.

Great Tit (Parus Major) Breeding- Infographic

Today I made my first infographic about birds and I want to share it with you. It is about Great tit (Parus Major) and it describes the breeding process of that species.

I hope that you are going to like it and I will be happy to hear your opinion in the comments below .

Lanius Collurio and many Blackcaps again

Today I continue with the ringing. The first bird for the day was a big surprise for me because it was a Red-Backed shrike(Lanius Collurio).It was a big and healthy male shrike. My brother took some pictures ,but we didn't make a video.

The totals for the day are:13birds.
-Blackcap-6
-Red-Backed shrike-1
-Tree sparrow-3
-House sparrow-1
-Great tit-1
-Song thrush-1

The last two day were wonderful for me and I'm very happy ,because I finaly ringed some birds. Total for the two days 25 bird from 7 species.

Blackcap domination !

On 21.07.2012(Saturday) I got up at 5:00AM. I took my brothers bike and I began the 12km journey from Belogradchik to Veshtica. The first thing that I saw was the sun...

At 6:30AM I managed to set up the mist nets and the ringing started. For the whole ringing session I ringed 12 birds:

-1-Blackbird
-1-Song Thrush
-1-Great tit
-1-Tree sparrow
-7-Blackcaps
-1-Olive-tree Warbler(Hippolais olivetorum)(young)- I will make separate post about this bird with pictures and video.


Very interesting for me was the fact that whole of the seven Blackcaps were females. Maybe they are migrating before or after the males, but I didn't even see any male  Blackcaps. Most of the other ringed birds were young. Here are some pictures from today :

Song Thrush

Female Blackcap

Female Blackcap

Young Blackbird

Young Blackbird

Tomorrow I will try to make some ringing,photos and videos .