A day full of Fulmars

This morning we opened the nets at 6:00, so a little later than usually because it rained in the early morning. But we still got rewarded with a lot of birds in the first round. A highlight for all of us were two Common Snipes (Dobbeltbekkasin) – one adult recapture and a new ringed juvenile. For Victoria it was the first Snipe to ring and for me the first one in hand, so we were both very glad. Also, in overall the ringing morning was quite successful with 51 birds. Jørgen and Igor visited us in during the ringing, which I am always happy about :-)

Amelie and Knud were out observing and spotted an awesome amount of Fulmars (Mullemuk) – 232 in total! After this successful counting, Amelie joined us in the ringing and extracted her first bird out of the net here, what she did very well. After the ringing at Kabeltromeln, Simon had a ringing tour at the Lighthouse and caught 3 birds he could show – 2 Willow Warblers (Løvsanger) and 1 Common Whitethroat (Tornsanger).

I left the ringing earlier and went to Tversted, Uggeby and Hirtshals to count Sandwich Terns (Splitterne) and tried to read rings. Surprisingly, there were not so many Sandwich Terns, but I managed at least to read 7 rings.

People: Simon S. Christiansen, Viktoria Mader, Amelie Zeller, Amandine Doré, Kirsten, Kristina Sønderkjær, Knud Pedersen Jørgen & Igor, Lisa Vergin

Birds ringed at Kabeltromeln:

Dobbeltbekkasin – Common Snipe: 1

Gærdesanger – Lesser Whitethroat: 5

Gråsisken – Redpoll: 1

Gulbug – Icterine Warbler :1

Havesanger – Garden Warbler: 2

Løvsanger – Willow Warbler: 7

Munk – Blackcap: 2

Rørsanger – Reed Warbler: 8

Rørspurv – Reed Bunting: 1

Tornsanger – Common Whitethroat: 23

Birds ringed at the Lighthouse Garden:

Løvsanger – Willow Warbler: 2

Tornsanger – Common Whitethroat: 1

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