Ringing at Kabeltromlen and an American Scoter!

It was an early start for Rebecca and Simon junior who were at Kabeltromlen this morning before sunrise to open the nets. I joined a little later having been up late last night checking the Nightjar (Natravn) net. Although earlier in the evening we had seen a one flying around near the net, we had no luck catching any. Fingers crossed for next time!

It was a very nice morning ringing at Kabeltromlen. Sadly no more Greenish Warblers (Lundsanger) were caught today but we had plenty of Willow Warblers (Løvsanger) and a beautiful young Spotted Flycatcher (Grå Fluesnapper). There were also several Common Whitethroat (Tornsanger), Blackcap (Munk), Chiffchaff (Gransanger) and a Garden Warbler (Havesanger). It was good to put into practice the things we had learnt about moult from Simon yesterday when ageing the birds.

Whilst we were ringing a message came over Zello from Knud who was doing the migration count at World’s End 3. He had spotted an American Scoter (Amerikansk Sortand) amongst the Common Scoters (Sortand). Simon junior shot off to see it and managed to get this photo where you can identify the bird by its yellow bill. A very exciting sighting!

This afternoon has also been very productive with another cormorant count completed, food shopping, ringing data entered and checked, and cleaning done. Meanwhile, Gustav has gone away for a couple of days to work on school stuff and Simon has met with Peter Kristensen to discuss a radio tagging project. A busy day!

Ringing - (Kabeltromlen)

Munk (Blackcap) - 3

Tornsanger (Common Whitethroat) – 4

Havesanger (Garden Warbler) - 1

Rørsanger (Reed Warbler) - 1

Løvsanger (Willow Warbler) - 11

Gransanger (Chiffchaff) - 3

Gaerdesmutte (Wren) - 1

Grå Fluesnapper - 1

Total: 25

People: Hayley Land, Gustav Nyberg, Simon Kiesé, Rebecca Cheape, Simon S. Christiansen, Lisa Vergin, Knud Pedersen, Peter Kristensen, Stig and Grethe.

A link to today's observations from volunteers and local observers.