Quiet day, eventful night?

Good evening,

today was quite slow and quiet. Already the morning started like that. Diana and I woke up to open the nets at Kabeltromle. But it was raining and so we needed to check the radar to see when the rain stopped so that we could open. We lay down on the sofa in order not to wake up the others. After a while, todays observers Aksel and Prescillia and Solenn, who wanted to join us for the first round, also got up. Soon, Simon came as well to the bird observatory. Because of the rain, some of us had a chilled breakfast, Diana and I a good bird conversation about other ringing stations in Italy as well as about irresponsible cormmertials that do not care about the environment or indangered bird species.

Finally, it looked okay to go out. When Solenn, Diana and I arrived at Kabeltromle, people from the municipality where cutting bushes there. That is nice, so we don´t need to do that. On the other hand, it was very loud and we were wondering if it would make sense to open the nets. But we did and it made a lot of sense, as it started raining while we were ringing after the first round, so we had to close again. We rang a handful of birds and went home again afterwards. Aksel and Prescillia were also out for observations for one hour. They could observe some birds very close to the beach as Guillemot „Lomvie“, and Red-throated Diver „Rødstrubet Lom”. Then, they came also back to the station. I spent the day mainly with preparing my session about Ageing and Sexing Reed Bunting and Yellowhammer in autumn, that I will give soon. Solenn also worked on her presentaition. In the afternoon, Diana and Prescillia had a walk at the beach.

Near the bird observatory at the beach, we can obserserve Rock Pipits „Skærpiber” again. And there were a lot of Reed Buntings, further inland near Grenen. Aksel and Solenn went grocery shopping and Simon had a guided tour in the area with the senior club. It was a very nice group and they were amaized of some Goldcrests ”Fuglekonge” they saw. After the evening meeting, Simon showed us how to upload sounds on xeno-canto and then we played a game where each of was immitateing a bird sound ”chrr, chrr” for Corn Crake ”Engsnarre” was especially funny. While Solenn was baking her special delicious cookies for us, Aksel, Diana and I were playing bird bingo.

I won a piece of chocolate and Aksel got a recording that he is the best player in bird bingo. After dinner, are planning to go out for nightcatching, one team to cormorant lake and onother team to Grenen. We´ll ceep you updated in tomorrows blog, it will br exciting!

See you,

Hanelie

Ringed birds at Kabeltromle:

Gærdesmutte: 1

Rødhals: 1

Rødstjert: 1

Sangdrossel: 1

Fuglekonge: 1

Total: 5

Observations of the day in DOFbasn from observers in the area