Here comes the spring rarity for 2022!

Good evening everyone,

 The first round of ringing was today at 04:15. Robbe and I opened the nets. Lisa and Simon joined us for the first round. Let's put the rarity sheet on top, Simon said. We have been thinking, that it is time for a Blith Warbler "Buskrørsanger" for quite some weeks now, and we were prepared, with a Seccion about identifying Acrocephalus Warblers that we had some weeks ago, and mostly we had bananas with us, because in the net Blith Warblers "Buskrørsanger" do look like bananas, according to a colleague of Simon. Today we were not prepared, no bananas in the backpack, but our unpreparedness did not matter today. The rarity that Simon had predicted came, but it was not a Blith Warbler "Buskrørsanger". Alice and I made our round on the north side and in the last net of the Line of four there it was, a strange Acrocephalus Warbler! It was a Paddyfield Warbler "Lille Rørsanger"! This was a new species for Alice, Manuel, Leona and me and also for quite a few of the visitors who came to see the bird. Jørgen Hulbæk even did a little dance.

It is the eighth Paddyfield Warbler "Lille Rørsanger" caught in the nets in Skagen. None of those possibly seen in the field here were accepted by the Rarity Commitee. Here we link to an article on Netfugle about our Paddyfield Warbler written by Simon.

Lille Rørsanger i Skagen (netfugle)

Paddyfield Warblers "Lille Rørsanger" have their breeding ranges usually in Russia, there are some smaller populations in the danube delta around Romania and Ukraine. The wintering grounds are in India. This bird just overshot its target destination and instead of arriving in Ukraine or Romania it flew on until it landed in the net here in Skagen. But where will the further way of this bird go? And until where will it make it to?

Paddyfield Warbler "Lille Rørsanger"

After the exotic guest at Kabletromle there was not much happening in the nets any more. Manuel and Robbe wanted to do Laser Shooting at Kabletromle, but there was just nothing to shoot today. Back at the bird station we entered Data, then Alice, Leona and went to the grocery store, because today there should be a special last supper for Robbe and Manuel, who will leave us tomorrow and who we will miss very much in the team. It was a great time with you, and we could learn a lot from you, Robbe brought besides his bird knowledge always some variety with his great knowledge about Botany to the bird station. From Manuel, who has the longest birding experience of all of us, we could all learn, I will especially miss your bird song and call explanations andd teaching. Thanks a lot, Robbe and Manuel, good job ;-)

But tomorrow morning we still have all together and maybe there will be something interesting in the nets or passing by Kabletromle, Birds, this is for now your last chance to be seen here in Skagen by Manuel and Robbe!

But reinforcement for the team also came today, because shortly after we returned from shopping, another exotic guest and new team member arrived, namely Megan from Hawai, who will support the team for a month.

In the afternoon Alice started to make Samosas with the help of Leona and Megan, for dessert we had Backlawa and after the Evening Meeting we had a super good dinner. Tak for mael Alice!

Birds ringed at Kabletromle

Landsvale: 1

Lille Rørsanger: 1

Gærdesanger: 4

Lille Gråsisken: 1

Sivsanger: 1

Rørsanger: 4

Kærsanger: 2

Tornsanger:  2

Bogfinke: 2

Havesanger: 3

Munk: 10

Gulspurv: 1

Total: 32

Observations of the day in DOFbasn from observers in the area

Summary of raptors seen in Skagen and entered in DOFbasen today

See you in the field again tomorrow, take care!

 Hanelie

 People: Simon S. Christiansen, Hanelie Sidhu, Alice Scalzo, Manuel Tacke, Leona Gottschalkson, Robbe Cool, Megan Nepshinsky, Lisa Vergin, our guests Jan Hjort Christensen and Kristine Kleffel