A windy morning with some birds and chimney fire

The ringing:

A windy morning 10 to 12 meters per second from south west and I was droughting, that we could open, but I am always checking by going through the garden, if there is any shelter so that ringing is possible without harming the birds. It was possible, in the southwesterly winds some nets  were sheltered so Chung-Chi and I stayed around the house. Actually, with our 71 net-meters, that we had toady, we were more effective than yesterday with 242, yesterday 9 new birds, today seven with way less nets.

Blackcap "Munk", male

We decided to make it a bit cozier inside the station that windy morning by making a fire in the chimney, thanks to Torbens firewood.

Nevertheless, there were not so many birds in the area today, the military area was open, so I checked the bog in the afternoon, but it was very quiet, although the wind had slowed down later in the day.

Red Deer "Krondyr" in the bog

Nice news, we had a foreign Danish recapture of a Blackbird “Solsort” yesterday which we reported in fuglering. Today we got a recapture letter, the bird was ringed end October 2022 in Nordjylland by a ringer of the Nordvestjysk Ringmærkergruppe.

I did not find any moth in the traps today, maybe this night, as it will be less windy.

Observations:

During the morning there was not that many going on. We all hoped for some species that are associated with strong winds like shearwaters, skuas or fulmar. We didn't got any of that. There were some highlights though, we had four Red necked grebe. Besides the grebes we had a ten Caspian gulls, a species that is quickly expanding nord(west)wards. Half way during the observation period we aslo had a ringed gull from central Germany. In the late afternoon David and I decided to go for another hour of seawatching and saw a Scooty schearwater. So some of our prediction became reality!

At the station: David, Louis, Menno, Lærke, Chung-Chi, Hanelie.