Come hell or. . . gentle breeze . .

We remained around the lighthouse in the morning today, with the nets open from 7 to 11am. Michele caught a few juveniles of various species, but the highlight was during my first round when I extracted the first crested tit of the summer, if not the year and my first in the hand. Like all the others it was a juvenile, but no less impressive for all that. Aside from that, there was a brief passage of raptors including a red kite and a few buzzards, one of which was doing a very convincing impression of a rough legged buzzard, as they can irritatingly do quite often. Michele had a honey buzzard over on the afternoon, so not a bad day for raptors considering the month.

After lunch it was back on with the inevitable computer work, whilst waiting for our two new volunteers, Mads and Joakim to arrive. They turned up around four, narrowly avoiding a several hour traffic jam. They were given the ‘grand tour’ and introduced to everyone and then had a quick bird around the local area, coming from Copenhagen they were not familiar with some of the species that he have here . Michele cooked us a lovely pasta dish in the evening before we introduced the two lads to the evening meeting. The outcome of which was a plan to ring at Grenen tomorrow, come hell or high winds (probably not high winds).

Crested tit