Happy ringing day

Good evening everyone,

This morning’s ringing session was busy enough to keep the nets opened until 2pm : 103 birds were caught, including this autumn’s 2^nd Siberian chiffchaff Sibirisk Gransanger, the 2^nd water rail Vandriske, and first two greenfinches Grønirisk ! A very good first morning with Michael Jørgen who only arrived last night.

We were quite happy with the species diversity : 22 species, the most common being the bullfinches Dompap ; but also some autumn species like coal tit Sortmejse, chaffinch Bogfinke, and the thrushes that invaded our nets in the first hour after a short episode of rain : black bird Solsort, redwings Vindrossel, and songthrushes Sangdrossel. Although the morning was quite hectic, we took the time to make Louis ring his very first bird, a blackcap Munk !

Meanwhile the morning for Diana and Prescillia, observing at world ende 3, was way more quiet ; although no snowbuntings Snespurv decided to wander around them, they were still pleased to see 4 horned larks Bjerglærke, 3 great skuas Storkjove and a group of 11 kittiwakes Ride resting together at the tip of Denmark.

After cleaning the flat, Diana and Louis went out to try and find the Siberian stonechat Sibirisk Bynkefugl and the yellow-browed warbler that were seen in the area during the morning ; after meeting Erik Christophersen, Louis managed to take a picture of the Siberian stonechat perched on a branch :

He also managed to “catch” the following individual, which I will let you identify on your own. Hint : We would have loved to see whether it was ringed…

We then enjoyed a lovely meal prepared by our guest Kirsten who will depart tomorrow… Hopefully after some ringing !

People at the station : Aksel Y. Munkholm, Louis Kristoffer Poulsen, Diana Sciandra, Solenn Boucher, Prescillia Lemesle, Michael Fink, our guest Kirsten Bregn, and the visitors Ingo Ludwichowski, Wiebke Bahruth and Jana Rasche

Today’s observations in the area on DOFBasen

 

Ringing (Kabeltromlen) :

Gærdesmutte : 5

Fuglekonge : 5

Gransanger : 3

Sibirisk Gransanger : 1

Rødhals : 11

Jernspurv : 3

Gråsisken : 1

Sortmejse : 1

Dompap : 16

Munk : 9

Rørspurv : 10

Bogfinke : 1

Blåmejse : 3

Musvit : 7

Gulspurv : 3

Grønirisk : 2

Vindrossel : 3

Sangdrossel : 4

Solsort : 1

Vandriske : 1