Today is labor day. However it is officially an off day here in Turkey, we kept ringing at Aras Station :-) Today the weather was a little cloudy and partially rainy in the afternoon. We ringed 30 birds out of 13 species. We ringed the first garden warbler of the season this year.
We finished the month of April here at Aras station with 5 ringers from Kenya, UK, Netherlands and Turkey. Today it was a nice day and we ringed 42 birds out of 17 species.
Today was a maginificient day of ringing because we had the most numbers of the birds since we started at Aras station this season. We ringed 99 birds out 18 species. First red-backed shrikes of the season arrived at the station and unfortunately they already killed two birds in the net, too.
Today it was warm all day and we had really good numbers of birds. We ringed 60 birds out 20 species.
We ringed 27 birds out of 11 species. The weather was warm all day.
Today we ringed 25 birds out of 11 species.
Today we again ringed less birds 25 out of 12 species due to bad weather.
Today two of our new volunteer from Netherlands joined us. Their names are Arnold and Luc. Arnold is an experienced ringer whereas Luc is a trainee. Out Turkish volunteer Fatih and Tuğçe left the station as well.
Today is national sovereignty and children's day in Turkey and it is 86th anniversary year of the establishment of the Turkish parliament. Then founder of Turkey Mustafa Kemal Atatürk gifted this day to world children and it is being celebrated as children's day.
Today we still had bad weather and we could only ring 12 birds out of 6 species.
