Warbler day at Kabeltrommlen

Ringing was delayed this morning due to the rain and wind. This meant an extra hour of sleep for us which I thoroughly enjoyed and needed. In the end, the nets were opened by 7. The few rounds we did today brought us a great diversity of birds ad finally a decrease in common whitethroats (tornsanger). The first exciting bird was a sedge warbler (sivsanger) which Frank had been wanting to ring since he arrived at Skagen. On the next round, I got to ring the more elusive wood warbler (skovsanger). The rest of the birds were the usual species captured which you can see in the list below. While ringing, half a dozen red kites where flying on the thermal currents above us.

Once back from ringing, I joined my parents for lunch as it was their last day in Skagen before they headed for Aarhus. In the meantime, Frank napped and entered the ringing data. We had the evening a little earlier, at 3, as Simon has his mother and grandmother visiting as well as assisting to a talk on the lighthouse history. For diner, all the staff from the lighthouse and Blink came together for the monthly diner which was prepared by the lighthouse staff. Very good lasagna!

Tomorrow strong wind means no ringing but hopefully interesting observations.

Ringmærkninge:

Gransanger 1

Rørsanger 1

Sivsanger 1

Gulbug 1

Gærdesanger 1

Skovsanger 1

Munk 3

Tornsanger 5

Total 14

Folk på stationen: Mathilde Ducroz, Frank Osterberg , Kirsten og Simon S Christiansen

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