Some stats: team size at the peak - 10, cars - max 8, rings used - 3476 and counting ;)

Nestlings from a blue tit clutch with an unexpected great tit nestling ;)

Tree pipit nest found in one of our northern plots :)

(Good for flycatchers, over 300 breeding attempts and little failures; bad for tits - we’ve lost close to 30% of broods due to early food shortages). Also, a somewhat wetter and colder season, with night frost in the first weeks of May… Recruitment also seems to be record high!

Chukar partridges. We’ll trace the feathers as they are used by blue tits in their nests. Will they use them, and will they locally specialize or roam the forest looking for particular styles? We’ll see;)

Tomorrow we start conquering Öja and adjacent areas, with occasional trips to FP - where änge is being cared for by eerie ghosts barely visible through clouds of smoke… Another good spring starting on #gotland, and another year of spying our cheeky tits and phlegmatic flycatchers. 💜💜

flocks of hundreds of redwings and fieldfares, happily grazing a freshly ploughed field. Gotland greeted us with fog and damp air, but there’s no other place that can be so magical and captivating even in the least favourite weather;)

chatting about ecology, evolution, climate change and birds. Reach out to the PIs (Szymek Drobniak @szymekdr.bsky.social and Aneta Arct) if you prefer to PM us. Older entries and content can still be found through our old account here: x.com/gotland_blames