Ring Ouzel and moult session

Although there were many thrushes (Drossler) on migration, nearly non of them flew into the nets at Grenen during the early rounds. Thus, we had a quite start of the ringing morning. Luckily for Simon, Lisa, Frederik and me, few rounds later a Ring Ouzel (Ringdrossel) flew into the net. That was the first male adult this year and after that nice catch we had some more birds in the nets and also some other highlights: a male adult Pied Flycatcher (Broget Fluesnapper), some Redstarts (Rødstjert) and a Bullfinch (Dompap). Besides these ringing, another exiting highlight was the missing audiomoph. After placing it in the ringing site for the night, it was vanished this morning. After searching alongthe bushes Simon found a first lead to it and quickly also the audiomoph, on which someone tried to open the lid. Currently we are listening to the recordings and are excited if we might find out who or what tried to eat it. Meanwhile, Fanny and Esben had a quite observation together with Knud on the North Beach.

After our observation and ringing morning we all had a lovely breakfast together. Later on we tried out some other methods to catch birds. Using a pyramid trap with eggs we were hoping to catch some Crows (Krage) or Magpies (Husskade). The last days Lisa and Fanny prepared a session on the aging of two Sylvia species – Lesser Whitethroat (Gærdesanger) and Common Whitethroat (Tornsanger) – during Spring. We had the session this afternoon and hope to catch some more of them during the next ringing days to use this knowledge in practice. Moreover, we are happy about the pictures which Leif and Lisbeth send us.

Birds ringed at Kabeltrommel:
Vindrossel – Redwing: 1
Solsort – Blackbird: 1
Ringdrossel – Ring Ouzel: 1
Rødhals – Robin: 3
Løvsanger – Willow Warbler: 10
Gærdesanger – Lesser Whitethroat: 5
Gærdesmutte – Wren: 1
Rødstjert – Redstart: 3
Broget Fluesnapper – Pied Flycatcher: 1
Munk – Blackcap: 2
Rørspurv – Reed Bunting: 1
Dompap – Bullfinch: 1
Gransanger – Chiffchaff: 4

People: Simon S. Christiansen, Lisa Vergin, Fanny Rey, Esben E. Hansen, Frederik R. Johansen, Knud Pedersen, Jørgen Kabel + Igor and Daniel Bloche

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