A happy "tristis" day

Hello everyone!

Today has been a very interesting day, in particular the ringing at Kabeltromlen has been really busy: 88 birds ringed (and, moreover, 9 recaptures). The morning started quite late because it was raining in the early morning, so me, Solenn and Louis waited to open the nets. When the opening of the nets is accompanied by many birds (saw or heard) it is always a good thing, and today it was one of those days! It was fun opening the nets (at least for me), both for the birds seen and for the work itself: it was the first day for Louis, so I explained him how to open the nets, the path to follow to complete the rounds and all the stuff related to how a ringing station works. Since the first round we were pleased to have Oluf Lou and the guest Kirsten Bregn helping ringing: we spent all together a great time. Sometimes I try to learn some Danish words, and today there were hundreds of Eurasian jackdaw (Allike) migrating so I remembered a funny sentence Simon told me: “Fuld som en Allike”, and they helped me with the pronunciation.

The two Golfinches (Stillits) we caught today: Hanelie loves them and we already miss her a lot (she returned in Germany some days ago). 

The highlight of the day was a Siberian chiffchaff (Sibirisk Gransanger, Phylloscopus collybita tristis: here some information about that bird) caught in the nets: Aksel recognized immediately it was not a normal Chiffchaff (Gransanger) and we called Simon to come to see it and him and Prescillia joined us to see it. Just an hour before the bird was caught Simon heard the same subspecies during his birdwatching walk (here the link to his recording: that subspecies can be easily recognized listening to the characteristic “sad-like” call).

I had another very good sighting, shared with Louis; a small flock of Bearded tits (Skægmejse) passed over the reeds close to some of the nets: maybe on the next days we can find them inside the nets! Louis was very happy about all the day; it is really a special feeling to have a bird in your hand for the first time; soon he will gain more confidence and he will be happy to ring! Solenn, instead, hadn’t a very cool day because in the middle of the morning her eye startd to hurt and she had to go to a doctor in Skagen: we all hope she will recover soon resting some days without doing too much effort with that eye. Prescillia, before coming to Kabeltromlen, had a very delightful morning too: she went observing at Verdens end 3 with Knud: amongst many interesting birds they saw also 8 Canada goose (Canadagås) and many Greylag goose (Grågås).

In the afternoon me and Prescillia ended with Simon the snow-bunting new traps: tomorrow we will try them! After I entered the data of the day I was really pleased to read an email from the Polish Ringing Center, reporting the history of a Caspian Gull (Kaspisk måge) with yellow ring that me and Solenn read at Grenen some days ago: it was ringed in 2019 in Poland as chick and it travelled a lot (United Kingdom, Poland and Netherlands).

Ringing (Kabeltromlen):

Sibirisk Gransanger: 1

Gransanger: 5

Fuglekonge: 7

Gærdesmutte: 10

Gråsisken, Nordlig: 8

Gråsisken, Lille: 6

Stillits: 2

Rødhals: 1

Jernspurv: 1

Dompap, Lille: 3

Dompap, Stor: 8

Dompap: 8

Rørspurv: 12

Blåmejse: 5

Munk: 5

Musvit: 9

Vindrossel: 1

Sangdrossel: 2

Total: 88

Dagens observationer kan ses her

Folk på stationen: Aksel Munkholm, Louis Kristoffer Poulsen, Oluf Lou, Diana Sciandra, Solenn Boucher, Prescillia Lemesle, Simon S. Christiansen, and our guest Kirsten Bregn.

P.S.: I am looking to someone who wants to go to see the Yellow Warbler; the bird is still in  Agger Tange and it is really stunning, but I don't have a car to reach it. Please contact me/us if you want to go!