Bird banding in Orebro, Sweden, June 2010

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Leif welcomes us to his nature reserve, Rynningeviken.	Leif's banding shed, which doubles as a visitors center for the nature reserve.	The view from Leif's banding shed, Lake Hjalmaren.	Banding shed company and lookers on. Yes, they are fenced out of the banding areas.
Setting up in an established net lane.	Unfurling a mist net in an established lane.	Continuing mist net set up.	Thrush Nightingale -- same genus as Nightingale, in Thrush family, Turdidae.
A frazzled and agitated Blue Tit -- same genus, Parus, as our chickadees.	Processing Blue Tit. Species is very aggressive in the net. Do not put them in same sack with other species!	Weighing in of Blue Tit -- steady platform of picnic table permits use of digital scale. Notice the hat!	Tail up -- Blue Tit.
Net full of Long-tailed Tits and one Blue Tit -- 18 of the former!	Handful of Long-tailed Tits. Slapped bands on them, aged them, released them all at once.	More Long-tailed Tits. Red eye ring = HY bird. Very social bird, often traveling in small flocks. Thus the big catch!	Packing up after the Long-tailed Tit invasion! You notice who's doing all the work!
Have mist nets, will travel!	Leif has all necessary banding equipment in hand -- mist nets, poles, processing tools, even a stool built into his backpack.	A regular net lane in a marsh -- target birds: Reed Warbler and Sedge Warbler.	Tending nets.
Tending nets.	Extracting.	The bander! Note self-contained stool attached to backpack.	Processing and recording.
The famous Swedish grip!	Chord length.	Referencing the Swedish answer to Pyle.	Say, "Ahhhhhh!"
"Show me your fat!"	Portable weighing station . . . .	Ye olde spring scale comes to the fore.	Close enough for government work!
One man show -- he does it all! (Although I did record for the Long-tailed Tit onslaught . . . .)	Reed Warbler -- one of the many Old World warblers.	Willow Warbler -- these guys are almost worse than our Empids!	Sedge Warbler -- the easiest to ID (to my eyes!).
Another on-the-fly set up in a reed marsh -- going after a Great Reed Warbler.	Deeper into the marsh!	Lane established, nets set. Coming out.	"I'm getting too old for this stuff!" Note style of carrying sack -- well-ventilated plastic basket and cloth sack above.
Pay dirt! One female Great Reed Warbler.	Great Reed Warbler -- what's happening?!	Some curious walkers. Leif always the educator.	A free-flying Great Reed Warbler! Always heard but not easily seen. Hmmmm, seems to have a ring (errr, band) or two!
A lucky shot of a Sedge Warbler.	A bit of Mass Audubon in Sweden! What a grand experience it was -- thank you, Leif!! Dave

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