Buskrørsanger and good ringing day

I went out observing at World's End 1 with Ramus this morning. There was not so much migration going on when we started. So we were delighted when we received a message from Simon after the first twenty minutes of our counting. He found a singing Blyth’s Reedwarbler (Buskrørsanger) out there where our netlanes are. We went down to the Sandormentrack to try to hear the bird without getting wet feet. It was very far away but we could hear it briefly.

Back at the obs the fullmars (Mallemuker) suddenly picked up in the second hour and Rasmus had a lot to count. There also came a dark morph Arctic Skua (Almindelig Kjove). Which was chasing a Gull. It was really nice to watch this cool bird in action. Later we could see a Shag, which was flying past the tip. That One was probably the same which was seen in the last few days. In the last hour Rasmus left earlier to make a tour for a school class, which was visiting the ringing today.

After he left I saw another Arctic Skua (Almindelig Kjove), a light morph this time, flying quite close chasing a tern. The Blyth’s Reedwarbler (Buskrørsanger) moved a bit through the morning so I was able to get closer to it without getting wet feet to hear it singing really nicely. We were also able to make some recordings of it. 

Recording of the Blyth’s Reedwarbler (Buskrørsanger) 

 

Blyth’s Reedwarbler (Buskrørsanger)

When I went back I  met many people at the kabeltrommel who were watching the ringing today. Except our guest Kirsten, also Jeppe Ovegaard was joining the ringing today. They had a really good day of ringing with 41 birds today. Among them a female Red Backed Shrike (Rødrygget Tornskade),  a Pied Flycatcher (Broget Fluesnapper) and a Tree Pipit (Skovpiber). They also catched three Chiffchaff (Gransanger) chicks, the fist 1k birds this year. And they recaught a Reedwarbler (Rørsanger) which was ringed somewhere in Belgium.

 

 

Red Backed Shrike (Rødrygget Tornskade)

 

Also Rasmus and Tue’s  tour with the school class went pretty well, they were once again able to get more people interested in the birds and our work.

Hyggelig round at Kabeltomelen

 

In the afternoon Tue continued his work on the Floating hide and Rasmus and I went out to Storsig. There were not so many Birds but many caterpillars.

Later someone found a Beeater (Biæder) resting in the industrial area. We quickly biked out there but the bird left before we arrived there and also some big rain clouds were coming in. So we went back to make ourselves cozy in the station.

 

Ringing Kabeltromlen:

Rørsanger 6

Gulbug 1

Kærsanger 9

Munk 12

Havesanger 1

Bogfinke 2

Gransanger 4

Skovpiber 1

Gærdesmutte 1

Solsort 1 

Broget Fluesnapper 1

Rødrygget Tornskade 1

Gråsisken 1

Total: 41

 

Highlights:

Buskrørsanger 1

Almindelig Kjove 2

Topskarv 1

Biæder 1

Today’s observations in Dofbasen from observers in the area

People: Lucas Corneliussen, Cora Köberle, Rasmus Mattiesen-Juhl, Tue Baaner, Andrew Jacobs, Simon S. Christiansen, Jørgen Hulbæk, Jeppe Overgaard and  our guest Kirsten