A long day and night at Kabeltromlen

Yesterday evening, we went ringing at Kabeltromlen, hoping to catch waders thanks to the new nets we set up in the reeds. Winds were still quite strong, but we surprisingly caught some birds, more than we expected. Almost all of them were recaptures, only two of them were new birds. And unfortunately, no wader were caught, even though we flushed a Common Snipe (Dobbeltbekkasin) several times. 

During the ringing, I went down to Grenen beach, close to the tip, to check the Sandwich Terns (Splitterne) and count them. None of them were roosting, they were actively fishing and therefore I could not count them. However, I enjoyed very much seeing them diving in the water and catching some fish. It’s always very impressive !

Sunset at Grenen tip

Moreover, the seals were at the Grenen tip, hadn’t seen them since I arrived, and I had been looking forward to see them. They were amazing !

Seals 

We closed the nets around 22:00 and went back home, to get some sleep before the morning ringing.

Martina went opening the wader nets at 2:30am, as it is more likely to catch them during the dark hours of the night. I joined at 3:15am to open the rest of the nets, and we carried on our normal ringing. Again, we got another Blackcap (Munk)  “wave” and we really wonder where they all come from. We thought that by now we had probably ringed all the Blackcaps of Skagen, if not Denmark !
And today was also a very special “Munk day”, because we caught our first juvenile Blackcap ! Finally !

Juvenile Blackcap (munk)

The winds were not slowing down in the morning, even getting stronger and we decided to close the nets early, at 6:45am. In the last net checks, we caught two beautiful Bullfinches (Dompap Lille), one male and one female.  

Male Bullfinch (Dompap Lille)

We went back home and got some sleep after this long night/morning, before pursuing our daily office tasks. We then later went to set up nets for the CES ringing that we will do tomorrow.

Ringmærkning (Kabeltromlen) - 01/07/2020:

Common Whitethroat - Tornsanger - 1

Chiffchaff - Gransanger - 1

Total: 2

Ringmærkning (Kabeltromlen) - 02/07/2020:

Great tit - Musvit - 1

Marsh Warbler - Kærsanger - 1

Lesser Whitethroat - Gærdesanger  - 2

Garden Warbler - Havesanger - 2

Blackcap - Munk - 7

Common Whitethroat - Tornsanger - 2

Chiffchaff - Gransanger - 3

Total: 20

People : Martina Hillbrand,  Simon S. Christiansen, Amandine Doré

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