A peaceful Sunday

Last night we were setting up both the Nightjar (Natravn) and Stormpetrel (Lille Stormsvale) Nets, but unfortunately, we didn’t catch a single bird. Haley was the one checking the nets at night every 30 minutes, so she could sleep in this morning.

Rebecca, Simon and me went bird ringing at Kabeltromlen. As we were riding our bikes to the ringing spot, a beautiful red sky was appearing at the horizon. It was a beautiful start in the day!

We didn’t get many birds today, but in our first round we got a juvenile Great spotted Woodpecker (Stor Flagspætte) and a Wheatear (Stenpikker) which we were all very happy about. I got to ring a Blackcap (Munk), my third ever ringed bird. I really enjoy learning more each day and getting more experience with handling and ringing birds. Having them so close in front of you really helps identifying the features better as well as memorizing the little details about each species. The other birds we catched and ringed were a Wren (Gærdesmutte) (which was so tiny!), a Common Whitethroat (Tornsanger), some Chiffchaffs (Gransanger) and a Willow Warbler (Løvsanger).

A Great spotted Woodpecker (Stor Flagspætte) 

A Wheatear (Stenpikker)

A Wren (Gærdesmutte)

Meanwhile Gustav was counting the passing migratory birds at World End’s 3, where he could observer three arctic skuas (Almindelig kjove), two young ones and one adult.

When we were all back at the Observatory we had an interesting training session with Simon where we talked about different strategies and features to identify the age and sex of birds, and about ethics and important principles to follow in bird ringing.

In the afternoon Haley went to do the Cormoran Count (Skarv) at the Harbor, which was a very quiet counting day. The rest of the day all of us were productive with different tasks: entering ringing data, social media, cleaning the lab and Birder’s Club, food shopping and, of course, cooking.

Later that day our new guests, Ole and Birgitte, arrived in the apartment and we are looking forward to meet them at our daily bird activities!

Ringing (Kabeltromlekrattet):

Chiffchaff (Gransanger) - 2

Willow Warbler (Løvsanger) -1

Wren (Gærdesmutte) - 1

Wheatear (Stenpikker) - 1

Blackcap (Munk) -1

Common Whitethroat (Tornsanger) – 1

Great spotted Woodpecker (Stor Flagspætte) - 1

Total: 8

People: Hayley Land, Gustav Nyberg, Simon Kiesé, Rebecca Cheape, Antonia Greil, Simon S. Christiansen, Lisa Vergin, Knud Pedersen, Ole and Birgitte.

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