These fieldfare are rather small . .

The weather was good and the wind low, so I got up early and put some fieldfare tape out in the garden. Gave it an hour and after getting one bird, swapped it over to the redpoll tape. Which was much more successful, with 28 birds being caught after that, and there would have been more if the speaker hadn’t run out of battery. It was a busy but fun morning, with my first non redpoll bird ringed since I got back, which was a 2nd year male great tit. There was also some movement of birds, with a greylag goose flock over the Obs and a kestrel feeding in the garden. Jurgen Cable came over for a chat, first time I’d seen him since I got back, which was nice.

After I finished, Flemming invited me in for a bit of cake, which was the perfect way to finish off a good morning. After a good cuppa and ‘cinnamon snail’ I was energised to go up and double check my eagle presentation for tomorrow, and inevitably to add to it. Once I was done with this, I had a bike ride over to Jennes Sø and back along the road (keeping active as best I can) and then a quick met fixing session got me another two nets done.

Last of the leftover stew for dinner before entering DofBasen and checking out another PowerPoint presentation I’ll have to make next week, before getting the diary our early! Looking forward to Eagle Day tomorrow, lets hope we see some rovfugle at least!

Great tit (musvit)

Some of the redpoll (gråsisken) today were borderline between mealy and lesser.