What a morning !

Before telling you about our day, let’s talk about our devoted night catchers from yesterday night. Esben, Amelie and Angus went out to see if they could get catch another bird since they had been successful on the nights before. And they were again ! This time it wasn’t a wader but they caught a Greylag Goose at the tip. Nice catch !

Today, the weather was nice again. Then the whole team went ringing this morning even though it could have been also a good day for migration.

The first bird to be untangled from the mist nets was a Northern Wheatear, it was a good sign for the upcoming captures we had. We enjoyed no less than birds captured, including different species. Angus had the pleasure to ring for the first time a Wheatear (Stenpikker). Amelie ringed a first bird with a steel ring, a juvenile Water Rail (Vandrikse). Since we were enough, I also took an active part and ringed some more birds, starting to get more confident in handling and ringing birds under the enriching supervision of Esben and Simon.

Water Rail juv - Vandrikse

Northern Wheater - Stenpiker

Amelie ringing the Water Rail

Lesser Redpolls - Lille Grasisken

Simon and our guest who joined us this morning !

Rodstert - Redstart

Angus untangling a Willow Warbler

Best teachers ever ?

Arne and Esben left just after lunch, they have both to return home, Arne for work and Esben for moving and getting himself ready for his upcopming university start. We hope we’ll see you again during the autumn guys !

During the afternoon, we entered as every day the ringing datas and went through the datas we entered during the last months to check if there are any mistakes, quite a long but important task.

 

Night Ringing (Grenen)

Gragas – Greylag Goose – 1

Ringmærkning (Kabeltromlen):

Blåmejse - Blue Tit - 1

Broget Fluesnapper - Pied Flycatcher - 1

Fuglekonge - Goldcrest - 1

Gærdesanger - Lesser Whitethroat – 3

Gærdesmutte - Wren – 1

Gråsisken, Lille - Lesser Redpoll - 6

Kærsanger - Marsh Warbler - 1

Løvsanger - Willow Warbler - 34

Munk – Blackcap - 3

Musvit - Great Tit - 1

Rødstjert - Common Redstart - 3

Rørsanger - Reed Warbler - 2

Stenpikker - Northern Wheater - 1

Træløber - Eurasian Treecreeper - 1

Tornsanger - Common Whitethroat - 2

 

Total: 62

No migration data today

People: Martin Grienenberger, Simon S. Christiansen, Amelie Zeller, Esben Elgaard Hansen, Angus Barnett, Arne Anderson