Long awaited Vindrossel

The morning started when me and Judith woke up early around 5:30 and went to open up the nets in Kabeltromelkrattet and later Simon and Laia joined us for the first round around 7:00. First round was quite busy with around 20 birds, mostly Wrens-Gærdesmutte which was also the most common species that we caught this morning. Around 9 Simon had to leave the ringing for a nice tour he had back in the observatory for 7^th grade kids which was very nice. At this time, me Laia and Judith continued the ringing which was very nice when the sun came out. And in one of the last rounds I saw In the nets one of the birds that I waited a lot of time to see here in the ringing, a Redwing-Vindroussel! I got it out of the net right before it escaped, after we already lost a Jack snipe that escaped from the nets earlier in the morning….

 

 

 

 

We finished ringing in 12:00 and already at 13:00 our internship girl Stina arrived and we had a very quick lunch and right after went all of the volunteers together with the help of Stina back to Kabeltromelkrattet to cut new net lanes for 2 new nets. When we had so many people it went quite fast and easy and the new nets are up and ready for the next ringing.

After finishing cutting the net lanes and putting up the new nets I had to go and help Michael Ancher putting up the nets in Jennes Sø for the next day, but before that I had some free time, so I had a walk around the ringing area and the beach. I had some nice time with all of the very unique area before I leave in a few days.

A quite fresh and good condition Razorbill-Alk found dead on the beach and brought to the station collection.

Around 17:30 when we all finished our field work and had some rest, we had the evening meeting together and talked about the next days to come and our plans for the rest of the week. Later on we had a nice diner made by our lovely neighbors Ulla & Anders.

After dinner Simon showed us a nice presentation about his time in Ottenby bird  observatory and the amazing work they are doing there and also some amazing pictures of some of the rarities he had there following by wonderful leftover cake the Fleming brought us from the café and some tea. Nice evening!

 

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Ringing Kabeltromel 63 total birds.

Gransanger - 17

Gærdesmutte - 18

Fuglekonge - 11

Rørspurv - 9

Rødhals - 4

Blåmejse - 3

Vindrossel - 1