Blowin' in the wind

A promising start today as Simon and Amelie were greeted by a long-eared owl (Skovhornugle) whilst opening the nets. However throughout the morning we gradually closed the mist nets which were most exposed to the increasing wind speeds. No surprise then the amount of birds caught was nothing in comparison to yesterday’s success. It’s always nice to catch a great spotted woodpecker (Stor flagspætte) though. This young bird has red coming through on the back of the head identifying him as a male bird. They pack quite the nasty peck too – can you really blame them?

Although it was also a lot quieter on the sea today, Martin, Christina and Knud were happy to see a passing manx shearwater (Almindelig skråpe). The 2^nd year Mediterranean gull (Sorthovedet måge) remained on the pool by the point and there was still a few passing skuas over the sea; 13 Great skuas (Storkjove) and 1 Arctic (Almindileg kjove). Among the kittiwakes (Ride) there were 3 colour ringed birds so hopefully we can recover some information on these individual birds’ movements.

In the afternoon I attempted to go shopping with Amelie but cycling against the wind at times I felt like I was going backwards! Seems we can expect a similar day weather wise tomorrow.

Ringmærkning (Kabeltromlen):

Gærdesmutte - Wren: 4
Munk - Blackcap: 1
Rødhals - Robin: 1
Rødstjert - Redstart: 1
Stor flagspætte - Great spotted woodpecker: 1

Total: 8

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People: Martin Grienenberger, Amelie Zeller, Angus Barnett, Simon S. Christiansen, Christina Stinn, Knud Pedersen,