Quality over Quantity

Yesterday night, Simon and I came back from the Blåvand Bird Observatory. We spent some days there to practise preparing and putting on tags on Blackbirds (Solsort). Our supervisor was Kaspar Thorup who is very experienced in tagging birds with GPS. We were lucky and could already tag 12 Blackbirds, so in the next weeks we are excited to follow them on their journey. For me it was also interesting to get to know another bird station, helping the volunteers with their daily work and getting to know great people. When Simon and I arrived at home, Chris, Aurora, Christina and Martin were in the lab ringing the first ever Wigeon (Pibeand) for the station, they just caught a few meters from the lighthouse!

This morning Christina and I opened the nets half an hour before sunrise at 8. We had a very foggy ringing day with not so many birds, but we got some nice species today.

Fieldfare (Sjagger):

Jacksnipe (Enkeltbekkasin), the first one that was ringed here at the station using a mist net:

this very handsome male Bearded Tit (Skægmejse):

Martin had some quite good observations today. He saw 3 different species of Skuas: Great Skua (Storkjove), Arctic Skua (Almindelig Kjove) and Pomerine Skua (Mellemkjove)! He also saw some Shore Larks (Bjerglærke) and Lapland Buntings (Lapværling).

In the afternoon Christina and I took down the nets in the old lighthouse garden and put them up in the station garden, because we will start feeding in about a week.

After that we had some data entry and checking to do. At the evening meeting we talked about some small projects we want to do in the next weeks. Chris will give us an interesting session about his work in Peru, where he is ringing birds in the Amazon. He will talk about different species they catch there and how to age them. It is always interesting to listen to his stories, not only about birds, but also about catching crocodiles with bare hands…

We also want to try and put up some mist nets for Owls and Water Pipits (Bjergpiber) in the next weeks.

Ringmærkning (Kabeltromlen):

Blåmejse - Blue Tit - 4

Dompap, Lille – Western European Bullfinch – 2

Dompap, Stor – Northern European Bullfinch – 1

Enkeltbekkasin – Jack Snipe - 1

Fuglekonge – Goldcrest - 2

Gærdesmutte – Wren - 3

Gråsisken, Nordlig – Common Redpoll -1

Jernspurv – Dunnock - 1

Munk – Blackcap - 1

Musvit – Great Tit - 7

Rødhals – Robin - 1

Sangdrossel – Songthrush – 2

Sjagger – Fieldfare - 1

Skægmejse – Bearded tit - 1

Vindrossel – Redwing - 3

Total: 31

 

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People: Simon S. Christiansen, Christina Stinn, Aurora Gonzalo-Tarodo, Chris Ketola, Martin Grienenberger, Jørgen Kabel & Igor, Amelie Zeller