Amazing fishing Gannets (Sule)

This ringing morning was very quiet. We caught just a few passerines. The highlight was a song thrush (Sangdrossel). It was funny how big and heavy this bird was compared to the Blackcap (Munk) and especially the Goldcrest (Fuglekonge) we held in our hand just before. But the quiet day gave me the possibility to ring my first bird, a Dunnock (Jernspurv). It was a great experience to put on the ring the first time.

Pic.1: Ringing of a Dunnock

In the evening, I went out to take pictures of Gannets (Sule). I´ve had been waiting for a long time to have the possibility to take pictures of hunting Gannets. Now at Grenen, I had the chance to photograph them in the setting sun. It was amazing to see them falling off the sky to get fish. They are so quick and it’s hard to foresee when they will start fishing. But after 30 minutes of trying to take pictures I finally got a few good shots. They are not they best but they are my first ones and I´m very happy that I was successful to photograph this spectacle. I think I´ll try the next days to get some more, better pictures of these fascinating birds.

Pic.2: Fishing Gannet

But the Gannets were not the only ones trying to hunt fish. When we got out catching some waders at night we saw a light shining into the ocean. It was a diver (no not a Loon as you might think - it was a human diver). He was trying to catch some fishes with a harpune but was as unlucky as we trying to catch birds because it was too windy so we had to cancel it.

Birds we ringed in the morning: 3 Dunnocks (Jernspurv), 3 Robins (Rødhals), 1 Bullfinch (Dompap), 1 Redstart (Rødstjert), 4 Blackcaps (Munk), 1 Coal tit (Sortmejse), 1 Song thrush (Sangdrossel)

People: Simon S. Christiansen, Lisa Vergin, Molly Brown, Sasha Munters, Daniel Bloche