A couple of mundane ringing days in S.Spain!!!!!!

[tchagra]

Hi All

Off tomorrow up the Atlantic coast for a break with the sec.of our Spanish ringing group but just to wet your appetite have attached a sample of what birds to expect to see from my latest 2 ringing sessions.

Needless to say ,life is never boring down here!!!

Hasta Lleugo

Your Spanish Correspondent

P.S.Only 2 brownie points if you can tell me the species

[Andrew]

Pale Scops Owl?

[tchagra]

Hi Andrew

Go top of the class.

A juvenile Scops Owl tape lured into a net yesterday morning at 07.00hrs.in my olive grove site,little owl breed here too but as yet not been lucky.

Over the weekend will give a fuller resume of the 3 days ringing this week at different sites

Un Salud

[Andrew]

Do I get a sweet?

[tchagra]

Hi There

Maybe,but only if you get the other forthcoming questions correct also!!!!!

Hasta Domingo

[John Marshall]

Hi tchagra,

As a ringer of many years standing I look forward to your ringing news over the next few days. I am sure you will get your Little owls in due course, it took me a few years before I caught my first, I then got three in two days.

[logos]

"Hi Andrew

Go top of the class."

I'd give an a- or b+ to Andrew here as the bird is a Eurasian Scops (Otus scops) rather than Pale Scops (Otus brucei), the two are extremely similar and identification of this particular individual is probably only possible due to location (Pale is confined to the Middle East). I guess is unusually pale appearance in the pic is due to the use of flash (?). It's just possible to make out the underlying faintly barred pattern of the underparts which points to Eurasian.

Spud

[steve_nova]

Well, I just hope it was released pretty soon after this shot as it looks like a Rabbit caught in the headlights!;)

[CJW]

Goddamit Spud, you beat me by minutes!! Yes it's a European Scops which means that Andrew only gets a Sherbert Lemon or similar sour sweet!!

[tchagra]

Hi All

Got things a stiring in the bushes,great,well done to one and all.

More fun to follow Sunday evening when do more substantial report for Last Wed.,Thurs and Sunday morning.

BTW: Steve ,the bird was released soon after first light after getting a shot without flash.Will post that shot on Sunday plus with other interesting birds.

Your Spanish Correspondent

[Gerry Hooper]

It looks a bit like Bill Oddie .:-O