A day with multiple observation sites

The weather forecast predicted rain so we started late this morning. Christian, Judith and I went for observations at Ellekrattet but there weren't a lot of birds apart from the common passerines that we usually ring. For that reason, we decided to go towards Kabeltrommelkrattet and we tried to see the Yellow-browed Warbler (Hvidbrynet Løvsanger) that yesterday was around the nets. Christian was able to hear it there! Judith and I are still learning the passerine calls.

After that, we split and Christian went back to the observatory and started to hear the recordings of the previous days/nights. Judith and I went to search for the last 2 flowers she needed to collect for her herbarium. We found them and decided to go to the tip to find the Snow Buntings (Snespurv), Lapland Buntings (Lapværling), Reed Buntings (Rørspurv) and Shore Larks (Bjerglærke). We found 19 Snow Buntings! And after that, we decided to go back.

At Jennes Sø, Michael had a lot of Lesser Redpolls in the ringing, and one of them had a ring from Belgium! It will be interesting when we later get the answer from the Ringing Centre about where and when it was ringed.

In the meantime, Koen walked to Batteriskoven where he found a Black Redstart (Husrødstjert) and 15 Rooks (Råge). Then, he came back to the observatory and read some bird books from our library.

Simon had his free-day and he got a haircut. He also went for observations and found 8 White Wagtails (Hvid vipstjert).

After lunch, Judith had a visit of a friend and when she came back Christian, Judith and I went to the beach for the daily swim (I only walked in the water though).

Judith also prepared us a nice dinner!

And finally, we had a movie night!
We watched The Big Year movie from 2011 in which 2 American birdwatchers try to beat the record of spotted birds in a whole year. If you want to know if they made it, I recommend you to watch the movie!

Ringmærkning (Jennes Sø):

Rødhals - 2

Gærdesmutte - 2

Gransanger - 2

Blåmejse - 2

Fuglekonge - 10

Lille Gråsisken - 103

Musvit - 2

People: Simon S. Christiansen, Christian Stolz, Judith Kloibhofer, Koen Stork, Laia Soler Iglesias, Michael Ancher, Jens and Gulmaj