Big ringing day with Storm petrel + a waxwing!

The day started really early today when a little over midnight Mette woke Simon, Mio and me up and told us they had caught a small black bird at the beach. Simon and i immediately realised that it must be a storm petrel, so we quickly rush down to the lab.

European storm petrel (Lille stormsvale) tonight. Picture by Simon Kiese

It was a storm petrel and suddenly the low amount of sleep seems worth it. Around 8 people went to see this seldom observed pelagic species in the middle of the night and it was a lifer for me.

When we woke up again a few hours later it was time for ringing at Kabeltromlen. Today it was Jule, both Simon’s, Mette and me at the ringing. Today would be a day with a lot of birds and especially warblers and we ended up ringing 67 birds and 9 different species of warblers. Most common was a staggering 28 Common whitethroats (Tornsanger). We also caught a nice Wood warbler (Skovsanger). We had quite a few visitors at the ringing today as well, which was nice.

Wood warbler (Skovsanger). Picture by Knud Pedersen

Other highlights from the ringing include Lesser redpoll (Lille gråsisken) and Garden warbler (Havesanger). During the ringing period a few good species came by including a Common Rosefinch (Karmindompap), Caspian tern (Rovterne) and most surprisingly a Bohemian Waxwing (Silkehale). There was also a good number of Kestrels (Tårnfalk) flying through.

Bohemian waxwing (Silkehale) at Kabeltromlen. Picture by Simon Kiese

Mio was on observation duty today. In the first hour he had a lot of migrating shorebirds compared to the last few days including: Whimbrel (Småspove), Bar tailed godwit (Lille kobbersneppe), ruddy turnstone (Stenvender) and a lot of sandpipers the “tringa” genus (Klirer). In the second he also had a Great skua (Storkjove) migrating north-west.

We the day by watching over 200 Fulmars (Mallemuk) from the beach.

Ringing (KAB):

Gransanger       9                                                                                                                                                                  

Blåmejse            7                                                                                                                                                                  

Tornsanger         28                                                                                                                                                               

Havesanger       1                                                                                                                     

Munk    5                                                                                                      

Gråsisken, Lille (ssp. cabaret)  1                                                                                       

Løvsanger          1                           

Gulbug 4                                                                                                                                                                                 

Gærdesanger    5                                                         

Skovsanger        1                           

Rørsanger          2                           

Kærsanger         3

Total: 67 new (+7 recap)

Ringing (Det Grå Fyr):

Lille stormsvale 1

Highlights from the observation:

Storkjove

Sortklire

Link to today’s observations in DOFbasen from observers in the area.

People: Mette Breede, Mio Brix, Simon S. Christiansen, Lisa Vergin, Knud Pedersen, Simon Kiesé, Alexander Nyholm, Jule Tappe.