Karmindompap

A busy day today! Me and Ulysse opened the nets at Kabeltrolen whilst Mathilde, Augustin and sander joined Knud up on the dunes for the morning observations, Simon and Lisa then joined us, and whilst Lisa stayed for the ringing, We had decided to try with the whoosh net out on Grenen to try and catch some waders mainly sanderlings (sandløber) and the dunlin (Almindelig Ryle) that persist I the water accumulated on the beach. Simon and Augustin then had the job of the whoosh net and although they had one or two near misses nothing came of it but the near misses give us hope for other days after some more heavy rain.

For Ulysse’s first ringing session here in Skagen it was eventful with one round bringing around 15 birds and the others then nicely spread out for some talk through the data we take with Ulysse but also the visitors we had including Thomas and Pia from the apartment. Thomas got to hold and see his favorite bird, the Wren (gærdesmutte), some other nice birds and highlights from the morning would be the local bred Icterine Warbler (Gulbug) and the Yellowhammer (gulspurv) but the definite highlight being the Rosefinch (Karmindompap) the first for the year and Lisa’s first in the hand.

After Juvenile kestrel (Tårnfalk) rescue No. 1 yesterday we had another call from a member of the public that had unfortunately struck another with their car this afternoon, currently resting in the Lab, it doesn’t look too good for the poor youngster so we will keep an eye on it tomorrow and decide on the next course of action to keep it out of suffering. We then went shopping for the now fuller team and Augustin made a great dinner where we were joined by Thomas and Pia. After dinner, I then went out to Grenen to set up tonights NocMig recorder and survey whether any birds were roosting out on the beach which turned out to be quite a pleasant walk with a hedgehog and all the juvenile plovers we rung a week or so back so was glad to see they’re doing okay.

Tomorrow we will swap teams with me and Ulysse on Observation duties and the others ringing so hopefully we will bring some good birds on both ends!

Ringmærkning – Kabeltrolen

Tornsanger – 7

Munk – 2

Solsort – 2

Gulspurv – 1

Gulbug – 1

Gærdesmutte – 2

Gærdesanger – 3

Rørsanger – 2

Kærsanger – 1

Løvsanger – 2

Karmindompap – 1

Gransanger – 1

Havesanger – 1

Total - 26

Folk på stationen: Mathilde Ducroz, Frank Osterberg, Lisa Vergin, Simon S Christiansen, Ulysse, Sander og Augustin.

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