Today the Burkina guys are due to go back home (but in fact are needed for meetings at the office), and the Mauritanian team arrive. Bara, Aly and I join Toby and Roger Jr for some more filming of rural scenes, including some tree planting. We find a spot next to main road that looks appropriate, and we get some assistance from a chap who appears on his bicycle. [We subsequently discover that he is now guardian of said tree, watering it and protecting it from livestock. We’ll check on it later to see if it’s surviving!]
Meanwhile, Roger S discovers that of the four tagged wood warblers, one has dropped its tail with the tag attached, and it’s the one that we tagged only yesterday! Surely they’re not starting their winter moult already? Those birds seen in Ghana last year didn’t start moulting until early December. Could these earlier arrivals a bit further north be getting a head start? Roger also has his doubts about another tag. It appears to have remained in the same spot for a few consecutive fixes now, about 15m away within an inaccessible walled enclosure. We need permission to get into said enclosure to see if it can be found.
Birds of note on site include pearl-spotted owlet, 4 long-tailed nightjars, Senegal eremomelas, chestnut bellied starling and gabar goshawk
A group of us head to town this pm, to price up the kit needed for solar power supply for the Oursi incubator etc, and look too for a gas freezer. The latter turns out to be prohibitively expensive, so we will have to have a rethink!
Danaë and the film crew are trying to find suitable action to film around town, and the Mauritanian team arrive in Ouagadougou.
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