Home Alone...

Today was our first day of ringing without Simon, but luckily, we will be getting some help from Oluf Lou and Michael Fink Jørgensen for this week! They have both been ringing for a long time and we are happy that they can help us extracting, ringing and ageing hopefully many birds this week.

Meanwhile, Simon enjoying the time in Copenhagen, before he will leave for Ottenby:

Martin and I opened the nets today and were later joined by Christina, Oluf and Michael. We had a rather foggy morning and were also accompanied by our guests Lene and Stig. Angus was spending the morning at World’s End 3 with Knud. They were lucky observing a Pomarine Skua (Mellemkjove), which was the first time for Angus to see one! They also took some nice pictures and videos from two Lapland Buntings (Lapværling) resting close to them on the beach.

Photo: Knud Pedersen

The birds today weren’t as active as in the last days, but we still caught 45 individuals and 8 different species. It was important to us to spend some time for checking each other and taking a lot of time for taking pictures, ageing and sexing.

Michael will stay at Simon’s place for this week and went back there after the ringing to get some work for DOF done. Lene and Stig really enjoyed the ringing and found it interesting to watch us working in the field.

In the late afternoon we entered the ringing data from today and prepared for our day tomorrow. We will further research for the ageing of some species, especially for Dunnocks (Jernspurv) and Reed Buntings (Rørspurv).

Today Angus and I will maybe try and catch a Brant Goose (Knortegås), that’s been around the lighthouse for a week.

Ringmærkning (Kabbeltromlen):

Blåmejse - Blue tit - 6

Gransanger - Chiffchaff - 2

Munk - Blackcap - 2

Gærdesmutte – Wren - 4

Fuglekonge – Goldcrest - 3

Rødhals - Robin - 8

Jernspurv - Dunnock - 8

Rørspurv - Reed bunting - 11

Total: 45

Klik her for at se dagens observationer indtastet i Dofbasen af observatører i området

People: Martin Grienenberger, Amelie Zeller, Angus Barnett, Christina Stinn, Simon S. Christiansen, Michael Fink Jørgensen, Oluf Lou, Knud Pedersen, Lene, Stig