An exotic guest

Due to the wind that was over 9 m/s we only opened half of the nets. Still, we were able to put a nice ring on 8 new birds of 5 different species. Surprisingly we did not have any recaptures in our nets today. The fat highscore has been beaten today again by a Dunnock which had 5/9 fat-score.

Unfortunately we didn’t capture the many Starlings and Siskins that were seen by Menno and Bello. They saw a Little Gull and with 1160 Black-Headed Gulls and the first Lesser-Black-Backed Gulls of this spring the gull migration of is slowly starting.

While Bello did his daily Training, he was distracted by a strange sighting. An exotic cat had entered our garden. A Serval! He called the zookeepers of Blåvands Zoo which were right around the corner looking for their escapee. They arrived within 2 minutes and went into our garden. First they tried to capture it with a hand catcher but the bushes were too dense. Suddenly we heard a loud bang and asked ourselves if it was tranquilizer munition. We asked them but they said it had to be killed. Later we read a twitter post by the Jutland Police which said that the serval was caught and back with its owners in the Zoo.

Female Blackbird. Photo by Leona.

Serval by the nets in our station garden. Photo by Bello.

Ringmærkningsliste (Nye/ Genfanget):

2/0 Dunnock

2/0 Blackbird

1/0 Blue Tit

2/0 Chaffinch

1/0 Redpoll

= 8 new birds of 5 species

DOFbasen list:

https://dofbasen.dk/search/result.php?design=table&soeg=soeg&periode=dato&species=every&egneobs=on&sortering=dato&obstype=observationer&dato=10-03-2022&searchmyobs=Vis+dato

Folk på stationen: Bello, Menno, Leona, Timmy