Few birds but a good one

Today we… went ringing again!! Augustin and Mathilde opened the nets, and we all found a beautiful surprise in the first rounds: a juvenile barred warbler (høgesanger), the first of the season. Sadly, even though the cloudy weather was supposedly very adequate, the ringing was very slow placed: only 14 birds found their way to our nets.  

Simon animated a ringing tour for 2 families in the beginning of the afternoon to demonstrate and explain ringing techniques to the public. The nets of the old Lighthouse Garden were opened, and a single whitethroat (tornsanger) was ringed over the hour.

It rained for most of the afternoon, so we were not able to go out to Kabeltromlen to trim the growing vegetation around some of the mist nets and make way for a new net in the reed area.

If the weather doesn’t clear too much, Augustin and I will probably go night-catching around the tip of Grenen, looking for waders (vadefugle) or terns (terner).

Ringmærkninge – Kabeltrommlen

Høgesanger – 1

Tornsanger – 3

Munk – 1

Rørsanger – 3

Løvsanger – 5

Kærsanger – 1

Solsort – 1

Gærdesanger – 1

Ringmærkning - Fyrhaven

Tornsanger - 1

Total – 17

Folk på stationen: Mathilde Ducroz, Simon S Christiansen, Ulysse Reverre og Augustin Sticksel.

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