Me and my team have 7 stations along the coast in southwestern Norway (Noctur, Project #830), 3 of which are currently online and working to some degree. We are planning to tag bats in late summer early autumn in this region but will re-power all stations at some point in spring or early summer. Who in Northern Europe is planning to put tags on animals this spring and approximately when? We may choose to re-power some stations earlier if it is of significant benefit to the network, and if we can.
The Scottish Ornithologists’ Club is running a new project “Scottish Ornithologists’ Club Rock Pipits on the move” (#832) (in collaboration with the Tay Ringing Group) with the intention to tag wintering littoralis Rock Pipits in Scotland (in Fife – where we have 3 new stations) from late February, in the hope of logging eventual departures and that some might be picked up in Norway!
It would be great if your stations were active before any Scottish Rock Pipits start to arrive with you.
I tagged 10 thrushes at Store Færder in autumn 2025 with nanotags active for 280 days. We in the SE Norwegian Coastline Passerines project are therefore very happy about any receivers in other projects that are active this spring. The key return migration period is late February to early April.
I will be tagging P.nathusii in Greater London area starting mid-April. However, most of our bats either go to the south coast of the UK or the East Anglian cost before crossing the sea. I know there will be tagging along the East Anglian coast from April. There will be a UK Motus Zoom hopefully in the last week of February so there may be news of other sites along the east coast of northern England. We will update you if I hear of other sites after the meeting.
Thank you everyone for the update! It is super helpful to get this oversight. Our 3 stations that are online now will remain so and we will re-power the other 4 stations as soon as we can. After revisiting this topic with my colleagues and considering our current resources, the plan is to repower the remaining stations in mid-May. Good luck to you all!