Many people, few birds - but a beautiful Ring Ouzel (Ringdrossel)!

Our team keeps growing! Last night, Pablo arrived at Skagen Fuglestation and will remain with us for a couple of weeks. We are looking forward to getting to know him better and learning a lot from each other about birds, birding, and – well, birds. Welcome, Pablo!

Since our group is quite large now, we were able to split into three groups today: Martin and I went to World’s End 3 to count migratory seabirds. It was a slow day for us, with the highest counts of a few hundred Alcids and around two hundred Common Scoters (Sortand). However, it didn’t rain on us and the wind was also quite mild.

Esben and Amelie went to Jennes Sø to ring with Michael. Chris, Jeppe, and Pablo ringed at Kabeltromlen. They opened the nets a bit later than usual because of rainy and windy weather at dawn. It was quite a slow day at both sites, with only 15 new birds at Kabeltromlen and 12 new birds at Jennes Sø.

However, a Ring Ouzel (Ringdrossel) was caught in the nets at Kabeltromlen – so exciting! Erik was there to take a beautiful photo:

Jeppe took the opportunity of the slow day to practice handling and ringing birds at his own pace. It is a much more stressful experience to do this when there are many birds in the bags that need to get processed before the next round. Chris’ last bird today was a Great tit (Musvit) – well, I guess it could’ve been a Blue tit (Blåmejse), which is definitely worse!

We are sad to have to say goodbye to Chris tomorrow. He was with us for only two weeks but became an integral part of the team during his stay with us. We will surely miss him and hope that our paths will cross again at some (birding) point in the future - perhaps in the Amazonian jungle...?

Ringmærkning (Kabeltromlen):

Fuglekonge - Goldcrest: 4

Gæ­rdesmutte - Wren: 1

Rødhals - Robin: 1

Blåmejse - Blue tit: 1

Vindrossel - Redwing: 1

Solsort - Blackbird: 2

Ringdrossel - Ring Ouzel: 1

Munk - Blackcap: 2

Musvit - Great tit: 2

Total KAB: 15

Ringmærkning (Jennes Sø):

Stor Flagspætte - Great spotted woodpecker: 1

Rødhals - Robin: 2

Vindrossel - Redwing: 1

Solsort - Blackbird: 1

Fuglekonge - Goldcrest: 3

Blåmejse - Blue tit: 1

Skovspurv - Tree sparrow: 1

Musvit - Great tit: 2

Total Jennes Sø: 12

Overall total: 27

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People: Chris Ketola, Martin Grienenberger, Pablo Torres, Jeppe Overgaard, Esben Hansen, Knud Pedersen, Michael Ancher, Amelie Zeller, Simon S. Christiansen, Christina Stinn, Erik Christophersen