Common snipe in the net!

Today we splitted up, Laia was with Knud out at Verdensende 3 doing sea bird countings and Chris, Esben and Simon were ringing at Kabeltrommelkrattet.

The ringing started with a busy first round with a Common Snipe as a highlight. We see them regularly in the area of the ringing side but having one in the net is very rare. With this good start also the rest of the ringing was quiet divers and had as some specials: Fieldfare (Sjagger), Common Treecreeper (Træløber), Siskins (Grønsisken) and many more. An adult Bullfinch (Dompap) was also very interesting to see. Next to the ringing they also had some good observations! The whole team managed to see the rarity-highlights of the last days – the Pine Grosbeaks (Krogsnæb). There are more and more around in the area every day. Today, there were more than 30 seen around Grenen.  Furthermore, a Woodlark (Hedelærke), two Barn Swallows (Landsvale), Waxwings (Bombycilla) and some flocks of Bearded Tits (Skægmejse) was overflying the ringing side.

The sea bird observations had mostly common species, like many Razorbills (Alk) and Guillemots (Lomvie), Red-breasted Merganser (Toppet skallesluger) and Red-throated Divers (Rødstrubet lom). Very nice was also a big flock of over 80 Snow Buntings (Snespurv) coming very close to their observation point. After the observations Laia joined the others at Kabeltrommelkrattet and they went together to Sardinkrattet. There they took some nets down to start the shutting down of this ‘old’ ringing side.

After the observations Knud went to Skagen to find the Pine Grosbeaks (Krognæb) and he was more than lucky and found them very close.

Picture by Knud Pedersen

Coming back to the station Chris decided to use the little sunshine to go swimming. Laia and me just joined out to the beach. Then we had a good lunch with many sandwiches to be ready for the weakly cleaning-day. After the cleaning was finished we enjoyed the shiny apartment during our daily meeting. Now Esben is preparing dinner and it smells already delicious out of the kitchen.

Ringing (Kabeltrommelkrattet):

Common Snipe - Doppeltbekassin - 1
Wren - Gærdesmutte - 3
Robin - Rødhals - 3
Fieldfare - Sjagger - 1
Song Trush - Sangdrossel - 2
Blackcap - Munk - 1
Blue Tit - Blåmejse - 4
European Treecreeper - Nordlig Træløber (ssp. familiaris) - 1
Siskins - Grønsisken - 2
Lesser Redpolls - Lille Gråsisken - 3
Bullfinch - Dompap - 3
Dompap ssp. europaea - Lille Dompap - 3
Reed Bunting - Rørspurv - 1

Total: 28

People: Simon S. Christiansen, Christian Stolz, Judith Kloibhofer, Laia Soler Iglesias, Esben Hansen, Knud Pedersen.