Another week, another special catch

Opening the nets at Grenen early this morning was definitely worth it. We ringed exactly 100 birds this day. It was a busy morning with mainly Blue Tits (Blåmejse). Totally we rang 78 new Blue Tits. In the second round we had a the largest number of Tits, due to a net with a giant flock of these birds. Luckily Simon came in the right moment to help us processing the birds. Otherwise we would have to close the nets and wouldn´t catch the Yellow-browed Warbler (Hvidbrynet Løvsanger). That was great to have this Warbler flying into the net finally, after local birders reported this bird several times the last month. Besides Simon we got help from Jørgen, constructing the tent for us, to protect us against the rain.

 Net full of Blue Tits

While Molly, Lisa, Simon and I were ringing the birds, James and Sarah went out to observe the seabirds and passerines together with Rolf. As well as we they had a very successful morning and saw a lot of passerines. One of their Highlights is a Great Grey Shrike (Stor Tornskade) and Stonechat (Storstrubet Brynkefugl). But besides these birds they came to see the Yellow-browed Warbler we catched, too.

Yellow-browed Warbler (Hvidbrynet Løvsanger)

In the afternoon the Pacific Diver (Stillehavsolm) was swimming very close to the coast at the Lighthouse together with a Razorbill (Alk). It was great to see this Diver and to take pictures of the bird. The day was not only great, because of the successful ringing and observation morning. Moreover we had also a lot of culinary Highlights, like very often the last month. Firstly Simon bought me an Ice cream due to a won against him playing Shuffle Ball. It takes us the whole September to beat him in this game. The Ice cream was outdone by Sarahs Apple Crumble we eat together with Christel, Flemming und Gidde. It means a lot that this Crumble can stick with the cake of Christel in her Café.

Birds we rang: 3 Chiffchaff (Gransanger), 1 Yellow-browed Warbler (Hvidbrynet Løvsanger), 4 Wren (Gærdesmutte), 3 Robin (Rødhals), 4 Jernspurv (Dunnock), 78 Blue Tits (Blåmejse), 2 Blackcap (Munk), 2 Gardenwarbler (Havesanger), 1 Chaffinch (Bogfinke), 2 Songthrush (Sangdrossel)

People: Simon S. Christiansen, Jørgen Kabel, Rolf Christensen, Christel, Flemming, Gidde, James Butcher, Sarah Bradford, Molly Brown, Lisa Vergin and Daniel Bloche