Nice recapture: a Blue Tit from 2016!

Hello!

This morning unfortunately Prescillia was a little bit sick so she couldn’t go observing, but it seems that at Grenen there were a lot of interesting birds (the link of the observation of the day for the area is reported at the end of the blog)! Louis and Aksel opened the nets, then me, Gustav and Michael joined for the ringing. It was a busy day, mainly in the first round: an interesting high number of Blackbirds (Solsort) were in the nets. At the end of the first round Lona and Lars arrived, with a beautiful cake, that gave us a lot of energy.

The highlight of the day was certainly a elderly Blue Tit (Blåmejse, picture below): it was ringed in 2016 in Ellekrattet area, as a juvenile bird, than it was recaptured some other times at Kabeltromlen but it was not seen since 2020. Another very special moment today was the sighting of 16 Whooper swans (Sangsvane) passing very low over Kabeltromlen: simply amazing.

The ringing was very nice today, it is always a pleasure to have Michael with us and it was very nice to meet Gustav in these days (also if he won at Klask game): we hope to see you again somewhere! I already miss our guest Jørgen, a really beautiful person, but we are also all happy because some new volunteers are coming next days! I hope that being more people we will be able to put as more effort as possible in catching Snow Buntings (Snespurv) because the season is ending and we have a lot of other stuff to do.

We went home quite late, so we had lunch and it was already almost dark outside: just Aksel went out for a long walk to Grenen, while I tried to make Prescillia confortable to rest and recover a little bit from her fever and I worked on my presentation and on renaming all the videos I took since September that we need to mount the Volunteer video (a video that will be shared on social media to find the next wonderful volunteers for the next year).

Ringmærkning Kabeltromlen:

Fuglekonge: 6

Jernspurv: 1

Rødhals: 3

Skægmejse: 4

Rørspurv: 4

Munk: 5

Bogfinke: 4

Vindrossel: 5

Solsort: 18

Total = 50

Dagens observationer kan ses her.

Folk på stationen: Aksel Y. Munkholm, Louis Kristoffer Poulsen, Diana Sciandra, Prescillia Lemesle, Gustav Nyberg, Michael og vores gæster Lars og Lone