Busy day

Today Simon was away on a nice tour about the trees and forst of Byfogebskovel led by Paul held Mortensen and joined him, our friendly neighbors Erik Brodersen & Lis Kragelund.

Meanwhile me Judith went to open up the nets in Sardinkrattet together with the help of Knud pederses. It was the first time that I am leading the ringing here in Skagen and it was very nice  and exiting for me. We had a nice ringing with bird coming every round so we closed the nets only around 11:30. The highlights for me was a flock of around 10 Yellowhammers (Gulspurv) but most of then escaped when we arrived to the net… but we still got some of them, and also a one of the first  Goldcrest (Kongefugle)  for the season.

The ringing ended up with 46 birds (2 recaptures)

Gærdesmutte   -   7    -  Wren

Rødhals     -      4       -  Robin

Rørsanger    -     5     - Reed warbler

Munk    -   4    -   Blackcap

Gransanger  - 9   -  Chiffchaf

Løvesanger   - 1  -   Willow warbler

Fuglekonge   -  1  - Goldcrest

Blåmejse    -   5  -   Blue tit

Bogfinke     -   1   - Chaffinch

Gulspurv   -   3    - Yellowhammer

Rørspurv   -  5   -  Reed bunting

Right after the ringing our new internship girl Stina came for her first time at the station, Simon showed her around the station and the exhibition and then me and Judith showed her around the CES site and how the ringing is working. She also had a chance to see a Common scoter (Sortand) that was brought to us while she was found on the beach. The scoter was just fine and probably was just a little tired.. we gave her a nice ring and let it back to water when it had some rest.

Right after we set the Scoter free we used the nice day that we had and went to beach t play volleyball!

We some very close and nice games and a nice afternoon for all of us.

Later on we came back, had some hot showers and a nice dinner made by Christian and a good night sleep that was very need after this long and busy day with a lot of activities.

People: Simon S. Christiansen, Yehonatan Ben Aroia, Christian Stolz, Judith Kloibhofer, Knud Pedersen, Erik Brodersen & Lis Kragelund, Jens Kirkeby.