Windy day !

The day started pretty much as every previous day : the ringing team got up early to open the nets at 05:15, and I went to Verdens Ende 1 to look out for migration.

A new member of the team joined us today. Angus arrived yesterday and will stay with us for the entire autumn season. He comes from England and is a experienced ringer. He was pretty happy today to ring his first Lesser Whitethroat (Gærdesanger) !

Although the weather has changed, it wasn’t really the case in the mist nets. It was another slow morning and only 14 birds were caught and ringed today. On the migration side, the wind was too strong to see any passerines flying. A few birds were still active at sea though, and Martin saw a putative Pomarine Skua (Mellemkjove), a Great Skua (Storkjove) and a poor determined Hobby (Laerkefalk) that was attempting to migrate, flying just over the waves and having so much trouble to get forward against that strong wind ! Let’s hope that this strong southerly winds have much more to offer for the next days !

Windy day

From the far distance, I also saw that Knud was out and satisfying his love for Gulls. Yesterday, we were together and saw this odd looking Lesser Black-backed Gull.

In the afternoon, we did some office work and little things such as data entry, social media, bike check, etc… while Esben was working on some mathematics for his incoming return to school.

In the evening, we had the chance to have Simon cooking the dinner for us !!
Lisa and Arne, Simon's good friend from Lund, joined us and will stay for the weekend.

Ringmærkning (Kabeltromlen):

Gærdesanger - Lesser Whitethroat - 2

Havesanger – Garden Warbler - 1

Løvsanger - Willow Warbler - 8

Munk - Blackcap - 1

Tornsanger - Common Whitethroat - 1

Total: 14

Night Ringing  (Grenen)

Goosander 1 

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People: Martin Grienenberger, Simon S. Christiansen, Amelie Zeller, Esben Elgaard Hansen, Angus Barnett, Lisa Vergin, Arne Anderson