On the move - Wheatear, Whinchat and Redstart

Hi everyone,

With sunrise getting later Rosa and I had the luxury of an extra 15 minutes sleep in this morning as we only had to be out by 5am for ringing. We were kindly joined by Oluf to head up our ringing efforts which, while slow and steady, produced a nice selection of species,  the highlights being redstart (Rødstjert), whinchat (Bynkefugl) and wheatear (Stenpikker).

A first year Whinchat (Bynkefugl)

Meanwhile, Augustin, a new volunteer from Germany who arrived in late last night joined Ragnar, Fredrik and Hans out at Worlds end 3 for some seawatching which produced a return visit and some good views of the brown booby (Brun Sule) as well as a total of 15 arctic skua (Almindelig Kjove), 1 great skua (Storkjove), a little tern (Dværgterne), several little gulls (Dværgmåge) and mediterranean gulls (Sorthovedet Måge), and 37 wheatear (Stenpikker) being the highlights.

Sunrise with the observers at World end 3.

After lunch, several of us headed west, largely on our own separate walks with a goshawk (Duehøg), several redstart (Rødstjert) and good numbers of whinchat (Bynkefugl) and wheatear (Stenpikker) the highlights. On my way back I called into a small patch of largely coniferous woodland towards the southwest which produced crested tit (Topmejse), tree pipit (Skovpiber), spotted flycatcher (Grå Fluesnapper) and a juvenile great-spotted woodpecker (Stor Flagspætte) to add to the days totals.

Ringing (Kabeltromlen)

Gransanger:      1                                                                                                                                                                  

Stenpikker:       2                                                                                                                                                                  

Tornsanger:       3                                                                                                                                                                  

Munk:                   5                                                                                                                                                                  

Rødhals:              1                                                                                                                                                                  

Rødstjert:           1                                                                                                                                                                  

Rørsanger:         3                                                                                                                                                                  

Bynkefugl:          1                                                                                                                                                                  

Løvsanger:         4

Totals: 21

Link to todays observations from observers in the area

People at the station: Ragnar Smith, Rosa Hicks, Fredrik Johansen, Ezra Sherwell, Oluf Lou, Hans Christophersen, Augustin Sticksel.