A sunny but cold and windy day

We’re still with quite many people at the station so we splitted up again. Me, Yehonathan, Henning and Judith went ringing at Sardinkrattet while Laia and Christian were doing field observations at World’s End 3.

Yehonathan and me went up early to open up the nets and Henning and Judith joined later for the first round. The ringing was not very productive but we caught 18 birds including a 2cy+ Dunnock (Jernspurv). We took some photos of it. Most of the Dunnocks we catch here are young birds and therefore it’s good to have a proper look at the older birds we catch to get to grips with ageing. Interesting stuff. We caught a Reed Bunting (Rørspurv) as well, which is not really special to catch here but I took a few pictures to compare with pictures of Reed Buntings I have taken in Romania. It was very nice to see the different between the Black Sea subspecies and ‘our’ subspecies!

Many Reed Buntings (Rørspurv) roosting at Grenen these days

In the meantime, Laia and Christian were experiencing some Gannet (Sule) bonanza! They counted over 1,500 birds. The rest of the count was decent, but they expected to see more Great Skuas with this strong wind. Luckily, three Horned Larks on the tractor track made up for that! They had nice views of the birds as they were foraging around the track.

After lunch, most of us went out and all together we saw some good stuff such as a good count of Reed Buntings (Rørspurv) (even more than yesterday), Purple Sandpiper (Sortgrå Ryle) and again the Black Scoter (Amerikansk Sortand).

In the afternoon, me, Laia and Christian went to check on the garden nets if they were still in good shape. The evening before there was a discussion about how many nets there actually were in the garden. It was kind of a funny thing. There were seven nets in total and luckily they were all in good shape! It was also fun to see the garden for the first time!

Ringing (Sardinkrattet)

Wren – Gærdesmutte – 4
Dunnock - Jernspurv - 2
Robin - Rødhals - 5
Blackbird - Solsort – 2
Song Thrush – Sangdrossel – 1
Blackcap – Munk – 2
Goldcrest – Fuglekonge – 1
Reed Bunting – Rørspurv - 1

People: Yehonatan Ben Aroia, Christian Stolz, Judith Kloibhofer, Laia Soler Iglesias, Koen Stork, Simon S. Christiansen, Henning Ettrup, Ulla Popp, Anders Jørgen Jensen.