New arrival on the ringing with cool bird beside !

Esben and I opened the nest at 5:00 this morning, Simon joined us for the first round. The first round was mostly Thrushes with a beautiful Ring Ouzel (Ringdrossel). This is the fourth caught this season! During the second round we tagged the last Robin (Rødhals) for the monitoring project! We are very happy because everything went very well with the tagging and almost all the birds are not seen by the antenna that mean they have probably migrated. In total we tagged 19 Robin for 2 weeks.

We had the firsts Pied Flycatcher (Broget Fluesnapper) who were two males. For this species it is the males who migrate first to be the first one in the territory and wait for the female to come. We also had a couple of Lesser Redpoll (Gråsisken) with a beautiful adult male with beautiful red colours in the breast. It was a nice morning with a good variety of species, 14 different species .

Frederik and Daniel went in the morning observation at Grenen, the highlights of the morning are five Artic Skua (Almindelig Klove), a Serin (Gulrisk) who past very close to the spot and fly around and 450 Red-throated diver (Rødstrubet Lom) in a short amount of time with a very big flock of 62 birds at once !

Lisa stayed at the observatory to have her lecture for her master courses during the all morning.

This afternoon we all went to the Cormorant (Skarv) colony to do one of the weekly monitoring of the colony, we have to count the number of active nest (with bird on the nest) and see the behaviour of the bird like incubating bird, displaying or number of chicks. In total we had 29 active nests with some bird incubating so we hope that we will see some chicks in the next weeks!

This evening, Frederik went out to setup the audiomoth for recording bird nocturnal migration during the night. We have analysed the recording of the night of the 17 to the 18 of April that you can check on Trektellen via this link: https://www.trektellen.nl/count/view/2601/20200418

Ringing (Kabeltromlen):

Sum: 32

People: Simon S. Christiansen, Esben E. Hansen, Lisa Vergin, Fanny Rey, Frederik R. Johansen, Knud Pedersen and Fanny Rey 

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