A late Arctic Tern and a flock of Redpolls saved the morning

Ringing:

Just 113 net-meters were open today, it was a bit too windy for the rest. We had some very slow first rounds, in the lighthouse garden we just caught very few Blackbirds “Solsort” and were especially amazed of a pretty first year female with a very reddish-brown breast. Also in the station garden it was quiet, until Menno got a flock of mainly Lesser Redpolls “Lille Gråsisken” with some Siskins “Grønsisken” in between. It was just before his FlexTaxi picked him up to the train station. We ringed the birds together, then Menno left back to the Netherlands, but he already promised, he will be back at the station sometime the next years. Chung-Chi and I finished the ringing day, which continued to be slow, after this little Redpoll/Siskin intermezzo. Tomorrow, we will have less wind, so we are hoping for a good ringing day.

Blackbird/Solsort

Observations:

Endnu en af de der dage med en middelmådig vind fra vest, som er for svag til havfugle, men lidt for kraftig til noget andet..

Specielt i den første halve time kom en del Sortænder, lige over 2000, og i alt 2665.

Herefter gik det ned ad bakke, og havet var meget tomt, highlights var en Gråstrubet Lappedykker og en sen Havterne..

Ellers kom der lidt små flokke af Stære med en total på 1215..

Vi blev også forkælet med lidt regnbyger undervejs, som bare virkelig sætter prikken over i'et på en stille dag som i dag...

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