A lot of firsts today

Ulysses, Rosalina and me opened the nets at Kabeltromlen this morning although the wind was kind of strong. We were joined by Lisa, Simon, Jan, Grethe and Stig with the ringing. The board of Birdlife Denmark visited us today on the first two rounds at Kabeltromlen and Simon showed them a bit of our ringing work. Rosalina extracted her first birds from the nets and handled her first bird a beautiful male Munk and ringed her first birds, and Jan also ringed his first bird at the Station today, a lot of firsts today! We ringed quite a good number of birds today even though the weather conditions weren´t perfect, the highlight was a juvenile Spotted Flycatcher (Grå Fluesnapper) in one of the later rounds, also the first one I ever ringed.

Our guests Grethe and Stig went to the harbour in the afternoon but unfortunately the didn´t see any special birds. After the ringing we helped our guests from Birdlife Denmark a bit with cleaning the dishes and preparing coffee. The Volunteers were invited for dinner in the Blink restaurant at the lighthouse by the board of Birdlife Denmark for a delicious dinner in the evening.

Ringmærkning – Kabeltromlenkrattet

Rødstjert – 2

Solsort – 1

Rørsanger – 3

Gærdesanger -1

Tornsanger – 4

Havesanger – 1

Munk – 1

Grandanger – 6

Løvsanger – 11

Grå Fluesnapper – 1

Total – 28

Folk på stationen: Simon S Christiansen, Ulysse Reverre, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Jan Spieierman, Lisa Virgen, Grethe & Stig.

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