First catch of an Arctic Warbler in Nordjylland!!

Today has great potential to become the day with the best catch for this year! This morning, Molly
and I went out to go ringing with Michael Ancher in Jennes Sø. It’s a small catching area with just
6 mistnets, so normally its not very possible to catch a rare bird. But today we caught a Arctic
Warbler (Nordsanger) - thats the first one for Nordjylland and just the 7th that has been seen in
Denmark! And again a new species for Molly and me. When I extracted the Arctic Warbler from
the net, I wouldn’t have anticipate how much attention this little bird would attract. After Simon
announced the good news, the first local birders arrived within minutes to see and photograph the
special bird, so that was a great opportunity to meet the locals.

Later in the day, Simon took us to Stald Grenen, where we saw among others Spotted Flycatchers
(Grå Fluesnapper), Pied Flycatchers (Broget Fluesnapper), Grey Wagtails (Hvid Vipstjert) and
Yellow Wagtails (Gul Vipstjert). After that, we visited Michael and his nice family and celebrated
our exciting ringing morning.

And in the evening Daniel Bloche arrived - a new volunteer who‘s staying til the end of September
just like me. At 10pm we went again at the beach to catch some waders and were successful: we
caught two Dunlins (Almindelig ryle).
All in all you can say it was just an amazing day with great experiences and definitely a day to
remember!

Birds we ringed together with Michael (until we caught the Arctic Warbler): 5 Redpoll (Stor
Gråsisken), 1 Chiffchaff (Gransanger), 1 Wren (Gærdesmute) and of course the Arctic Warbler
(Nordsanger).

People: Simon S. Christiansen, Michael Ancher, Molly Brown, Daniel Bloche, Lisa Vergin and all
local birders.