Busy day at the lighthouse....

This morning, we went ringing at Kabeltromlen under a very sunny weather ! And for the first times in many days, there was no wind, which felt very nice ! A lot of birdwatchers were at Kabeltromlen this morning, hoping to hear or see the Zitting Cisticiola (Cistussanger) that had been sighted by Rolf yesterday. However, we did not hear it during the morning.

The catching was slower than yesterday, but we still got again a lot of juvenile birds, especially Common Whitethroat (Tornasanger), Lesser whitethroat (Gaerdesanger) and Chiffchaff (Gransanger).

We also ringed a juvenile Black Redtsart (Husrødstjert) and a Spotted Flycatcher (Grå fluesnapper), species that we do not catch so often !

I had to the ringing leave earlier for a meeting at the lighthouse, and let Martina close alone, which was harder than she thought because they were a lot of birds in the last rounds !

In the afternoon, I went out with Knud to try again to find the camera at the Cormorant Lake, that needed to be checked because it does not seem to work anymore. Knud knew the way, but still it was not easy to find it ! After some time walking and crossing reeds beds and bushes, we finally got to the camera ! It was actually also a very nice place to watch the cormorants (Skarv) and get close to them.

Into the danish jungle...

On my way back, I went to do some checkings on the antenna and tried to protect it from the playful cows in the field, that forced us to take down the receiver around 2 weeks ago.

In the end of the afternoon, Martina and Pernille went to the Cormorant lake to count the chicks. Most of them are now fully grown and have adult size. It becomes harder and harder to distinguish them from the adults, and it seems that some have already left the nest. Doing the counting and aging of the chicks becomes more challenging now ! The chicks of the Wtestern part of the colony were numerous and look healthy, which is good to see after the unfortunate killing of the chicks from the Eastern part of the colony.

A new volunteer, Rasmus, who had been here for a week last year, arrived today for a 2 weeks internship in the observatory.

After a nice dinner prepared by Rasmus and Pil, we are now getting ready to go catching nightjars (Natravn) again with Lars Bo. Hopefully, this night will as successful as the previous one and will try to beat the record of 5 nightjars in a night ! Lars Bo predicted 7 nightjars and 1 woodcock (Skovsneppe), and I hope he’s right !

Ringmærkning (Kabeltromlen):

Great tit – Musvit – 7

Black Redstart - Husrødstjert  - 1

Reed Warbler – Kærsanger – 2

Spotted Flycatcher - Grå Fluesnapper – 1

Lesser Whitethroat -      Gærdesanger – 8

Reed warbler – Rørsanger – 1

Blackcap – Munk – 5

Common Whitethroat – Tornsanger – 8

Blue tit – Blåmejse – 1

Chiffchaff – Gransanger – 5

Total : 39

People: Martina Hillbrand, Simon S. Christiansen, Amandine Doré, Rasmus, Pil, Falke, Sally, Rasmus Matthlesen-duhl, Rolf Christensen, Knud Pedersen, Lars Bo Jacobsen, Jørgen Kabel, and Igor

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