Vilamoura, Portugal - 22 Sept-2 Oct

Not South Notts - but an exotic sojourn for some of the group members and a chance to ring a few birds we don't normally handle.

Originally we were going to be a team of 12 but a strike by EasyJet cut that down to 10. The group members came from England and Scotland and we were also joined for the last few days by a ringer from Northern Ireland. We had a pretty good trip with bird numbers tailing off towards the end. A second team followed us and numbers picked up nicely after they had been there a few days.

Our team processed 1100 birds, 976 being new birds. Highlights were 2 Barn Owls, 1 European Nightjar, 8 Red-necked Nightjar, 1 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (the first ever for the site), Azure-winged Magpie, Jay, plus many other typical species from Southern Europe.

Kev  

Azure-winged Magpie (KJH)

Barn Owl (Kate Moore)

Lesser Spotted Woodpcker (Claire Nuttall)

Long-tailed Tit (Claire Nuttall)

Red-necked Nightjar (Claire Nuttall)

European and Red-necked Nightjars (Claire Nuttall)

Serin (Claire Nuttall)

Woodchat Shrike (Iain Livingstone)