I made a one-week trip to Jurmo Bird Observatory with Kaisa Välimäki. For us, the reason to go to this island in November is always catching Purple Sandpipers. Although the weather was not very good for this kind of activities, we managed to catch and colour ring 33 Purples. The numbers of Purples were rather low so we didn't find any controls from previous years or birds from Svalbard.
During some windless days we opened a couple of mistnets for passerines and surprisingly caught a Hume's Leaf Warbler! 2nd record for Jurmo. We've been lucky with this species as we ringed the first one also 2011. Other nice observations were 2 Black-legged Kittiwakes, Common Guillemot, many Arctic Redpolls (3 ringed), Black Redstart and a very late Redstart.
Thanks to Vilppu for help and company there!
 |
| Hume's Leaf Warbler. 2nd record for Jurmo. |
 |
| 1cy Purple Sandpiper yellow "ELV". |
 |
| Our traps for Purples. |
