First ringing session

Hello from my side,

I am Elena, the new volunteer. I just arrived two days ago up here in Skagen and I was immediately impressed by this beautiful landscape. After one arriving day, today was my first day out in the field, ringing birds. It was overwhelming, but great to get to know the techniques which are used here. It differs from the Austrian way of ringing in many ways. What was very interesting for me was that after travelling quite long up here, the species were pretty much the same as I am used to, but in other amounts. I wasn’t really aware of the fact that all these species occur pretty close to the sea (as we don’t have a sea in Austria).

It was an intensive ringing day. We caught 33 yet non- marked birds which was more than the days before. I had a few species, which I have never held in the hand before, like a Barn Swallow  (Landsvale), a Bull Finch (Dompap) or a Yellowhammer (Gulspurv).

Barn Swallow (Landsvale)

Yellow Hammer (Gulspurv)

We also had some visitors, including Alfrieda, one of the guest sisters, who was curious of how we handle the birds.

While we were out at Kabeltromel, Max was out at Worldsend 3 observing bird migration. There were not quite a lot of birds, but it was very enjoyable for him. His highlights were: a passing by Great Skua (Storkjove), one Black Guillemot (Tejst) and two juvenile Dunlin (Almindelig Ryle).

In the afternoon Frank and me had a nap, while Max was cycling to Skagen center and Hanelie went out to see the Red-footed falcons. She found three of them and she could observe a Marsh Harrier (Rørhøg) and three Greenshanks (Hvidklire) as well.

After our nap Frank and me were refreshed and typed in all the data from today. Now, its getting late therefore, I close the blog for today.

Looking forward to tomorrow where I will do my first migration observation!

See you!

Today’s observations in Dofbasen from observers in the area

People: Max Laubstein, Frank Osterberg, Hanelie Sidhu, Elena Turac, Simon Christiansen.

Ringing (Kabeltromlen):

Landsvale: 1

Jernspurv: 1

Kærsanger: 1

Rørsanger: 2

Gærdesanger: 1

Tornsanger: 4

Munk: 3

Løvsanger: 6

Broget Fluesnapper: 1

Blåmejse: 1

Lille Dompap: 2

Gransanger: 6

Rørspurv: 1

Total: 33