Buntings everywhere

Hello everyone!

Today all of us were happy, despite of the rainy afternoon.

This morning Aksel and Louis went observing with Knud and they spotted a lot of interesting species: a Great Northern Diver (Islom), a Short-eared Owl (Mosehornugle), many Pink-footed geese (Kortnæbbet gås, we saw them also from Kabeltromen) and, a really beautiful species, a Lapland Bunting (Lapværling). I really love buntings and I saw this species just one time, in Italy, where they are not common at all, but it was really a quick sighting, because it just passed flying fast and called a couple of times. I hope I will see one of them also here in Denmark one of the next days. Despite not having spotted that species yet I am very happy today, because I already had a good ration of buntings; Yellowhammer (Gulspurv) and Reed Buntings (Rørspurv) seen in hand, at the ringing, are always enough to made a day perfect. I would really try to catch some Snow Buntings at the beach (Snespurv), which were spotted also today; they will stay here all the winter but we need to be constant in trying to catch them.

The Yellowhammer (Gulspurv) is a really beautiful bird.

Me, Prescillia and Solenn this morning went ringing with the guidance of Michael: today and it was really a good day, we caught 40 birds but many different species. The highlight of the day, as well as the buntings, was a beautiful Siberian chiffchaff (Sibirisk Gransanger, in the picture below).

After lunch, we had a “Opening Freezer Event”, where mainly Aksel and Louis showed to the (many!) people some dead birds we have in the freezer, and they explained the many possible reasons for their death and how a dead animal can be useful for scientific research. During the afternoon most of us worked at home for the station (checking sheets, cleaning, uploading pictures in the Picture Archive etc…) and Solenn went to the shop with Michael. 

After dinner Solenn read the blog Aksel wrote yesterday and I decided to play some games (Klask, Shuffle Ball) with Aksel: I will just say that he was not very happy at the end of the night. Here there is a picture of him and Louis playing Klask. 

Ringing (Kabeltromlen):

Sibirisk Gransanger: 1

Fuglekonge: 1

Gærdesmutte: 8

Gråsisken:4

Rødhals: 4

Dompap: 3

Gulspurv: 1

Rørspurv: 5

Blåmejse: 2

Munk: 6

Musvit: 1

Vindrossel: 1

Sangdrossel: 2

Solsort: 1

Total: 40

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Folk på stationen: Aksel Munkholm, Louis Kristoffer Poulsen, Diana Sciandra, Solenn Boucher, Prescillia Lemesle, Michael Fink, Knud Pedersen, Ingo Ludwichowski og Wiebke Bahruth and our guest Britta.