Dobbeltbekkasin

After the late night ringing yesterday with more birds than expected we opened the nets again this morning hoping to catch many more birds despite the rather difficult weather forecast. We were not quite sure how long we could stay open before the rain but hoped for some birds in any case. We were a little disappointed by a rather slow start but just as the rain came and we had to close the nets we had a very nice surprise: finally the newly set up wader net caught its first bird: the very common snipe (dobbeltbekkasin) that had successfully evaded the net so many times before! We could finally ring it and now hope to get an answer to the question whether it is still alone and looking for a mate or if the song flights are to defend its territory and it is long breeding with a partner. Of course, we are hoping for lots of baby snipes in the near future!

Also in the last net check we got this beautiful adult male redpoll (lille gråsisken).

After we closed because of the rain I went to the tip to take advantage of the fact that there were still very few people out and I was hoping to get to see some roosting terns – still in the hope that one with a color ring shows up that I can actually read. I did not get to see any color rings, however, I got to see several red-throated divers (rødstrubet lom) fishing very close to the shore which made it all worth it nonetheless.

In the afternoon we hosted a family nature club tour at the birders’ club. Several families with children came to play educational games with birds. Unfortunately it was far too windy to open nets to catch birds but Simon climbed up to the roof to get the house martin (bysvale) chicks out of the nest we knew there. They were still too small to be ringed, however, so the families went to look at butterflies instead before they had a bird quiz and a little snack to end the afternoon.

Later we welcomed the new guests that will stay in the apartment this week: Rasmus, Pil, Sally og Falke. Tomorrow the weather will still be bad but from Tuesday on we can hopefully go ringing again as usual and the guests will be able to see more of the work we do.

Ringmærkning (Kabeltromlen)

Common Snipe – Dobbeltbekkasin – 1

Blackbird –  Solsort – 1

Reed Warbler – Rørsanger – 2

Lesser Whitethroat – Gærdesanger – 1

Lesser Redpoll – Gråsisken, Lille (cabaret) – 1

Common Whitethroat – Tornsanger –  2

Total: 8

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

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