A Recapture from Norway and a Bean Goose at Jennes Sø

Today, Amelie and Angus went bird ringing at Jennes Sø together with Simon and Michael. There weren’t nearly as many birds in the nets as expected, but it was still an exciting ringing day because they caught a Lesser redpoll (Lille Gråsisken) from Norway!

It is always quite rewarding to catch a bird that has been mist-netted and/or ringed elsewhere. It shows us how far these birds can and do travel.

During the morning at Jennes Sø, they were visited by a group of university students who will become teachers. The students received a tour and a lecture from Simon about ringing. Amelie and Angus played a migratory bird game with them, in which each person was assigned a bird species. Everyone then had to walk to different “stations” that represented the various regions of the world to show which migration route “their” species takes throughout the year. Everybody had a lot of fun, and the students are looking forward to playing the game with their pupils to teach them about migratory birds.

After the group left, Amelie and Angus went to repair a few of the damaged nets – such maintenance tasks are necessary to keep our catching method with the mist nets effective and safe.

Amelie and Angus also saw a Taiga or Tundra bean goose (Sædgås eller Tundrasædgås) and caught 4 Crested tits (Topmejse), which I thought was very exciting. I wasn’t at Jennes Sø with them today and have never ringed a Crested tit before, so I look forward to catching some in the coming weeks.

I spent a sunny morning at World’s End 3 with Martin for the daily migratory bird counts. It was a quiet day with only very little movement over the water. Grethe and Stig came to visit us, and I practiced my seabird identification skills, and Martin even began to teach me the bird calls of passerines (and a few non-passerines) flying by overhead. I must admit that I find learning the bird calls much more difficult than identifying them by sight. Martin has been a patient teacher, so I am sure that I will improve – one species at a time.

Our afternoon was busy with the usual data entry and administrative tasks that are just as important as the field work (although not always quite as fun). We will be ringing at Kabeltromlen again tomorrow – who knows, perhaps we will get another recapture from abroad?

Ringmærkning (Jennes Sø):

Topmejse - European crested tit: 4

Musvit - Great tit: 3

Rørsanger - Eurasian reed warbler: 2

Gransanger - Common chiffchaff: 3

Munk - Eurasian blackcap: 1

Tornsanger - Common whitethroat: 1

Gæ­rdesmutte - Eurasian wren: 2

Fuglekonge - Goldcrest: 1

Rødhals - European robin: 4

Lille Gråsisken - Lesser redpoll: 15

Total: 36

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People: Martin Grienenberger, Amelie Zeller, Angus Barnett, Simon S. Christiansen, Christina Stinn, Augustin Stickse, Michael Ancher, Grethe and Stig