Ringing all the young birds

My day started at 2 AM  because we woke up to see the young Nightjar (Natraven) which was catched in the old lighthouse garden. After seeing this beautiful bird I went back to bed to get some more sleep before opening the nets at Kabeltromeln. 

  

1K Nightjar (Natraven)

Today Mio and I went to open the nets at Kabeltromeln and Simon JR.joined us for the first round. We had a really good day of ringing today. We already caught good numbers of birds onthe first rounds. On the third round we caught a nice 1K Treepipit (Skovpiber) and a very beautiful 1K Pied Flycatcher (Broget Fluesnapper), the first one of the autumn ringing season. We also caught two young Yellow Hammers (Gulspurv), a Blue Tit (Blåmejse),  a Great Tit (Musvit) and many Marsh Warblers (Kærsanger).

 

1K Pied Flycatcher (Boget Fluesnapper)

In total we ringed 39 birds and almost all of them were young birds which hatched this year. This morning also Jørgen Kabel and Igor visited us at Kabeltrommeln, it was very nice to see them again. 

On our way back to the station we saw six Great White Egrets (Sølvhejre) flying out to Grenen. 

Back at the station we met the observers who had a bit of a slower day. Their highlight was a resting Little Gull (Dværgmåge). Another highlight was two Arctic Skuas (Almingdelig Kjove). 

After lunch the most of us took a good long nap.

Later Hanelie, Markus, Sarah and Rosemary went out to change the position of some nets at Kabeltrommeln. They did a great job and now the reed nets will maybe catch a bit more than before.

While they were out Simon Sr. and Ragnar passed by the station before they went out to do some seawatching at Nordstrand. Ragnar will stay at Simon's place the next few days and will help us with some migration counts.

Simon also told us that one of the Kestrels we ringed near Tårs in July made it up to Skagen, which you can see in the GPS Data from its tagg.

 

Map with GPS Data of one of the tagged Kestrels (Tårnfalk)

Later Simon Jr. and I did some datawork and Mio prepared us a delicious dinner.

 

Ringing Kabeltrommlen: 

Munk 2

Gærdesanger  4

Gransanger 11

Tornsanger 8

Rørsanger 2

Kærsanger 7

Blåmejse 1

Skovpiber 1

Gulspurv 2

Broget Fluesnapper 1

Total: 39

 

Ringing Det Grå Fyr:

Natraven 1

 

Highlight of the observations:

Little Gull (Dværgmåge) 1

Arctic Skua (Almindelig Kjove)

Today’s observations in Dofbasen from observers in the area

 

People: Rosemary Frikke, Markus Kemp Clément, Simon Kiesé, Louise Buksti-Ladefoged, Sarah Partrige, Mio Brix, Cora Köberle, Simon S. Christiansen, Hanelie Sidhu, Ragnar Smith.