Gransanger, Laplandsværling og Rustrød gyvelmåler

Morning observations:

The migration was okay, it wasn’t as good as yesterday, but way better than the other days this week. The Little terns “Dvægterne” also came by to say hello again! Our highlight of the day was a Lapland bunting “Laplandsværling” and a Marsh harrier “Rørhøg”, which were really cool!

Todays observations can be seen here.

The ringing:

Anne and I met at 5.30 in the morning as the previous days to open one garden each. I went up to the lighthouse garden, but it was very windy up there. In the end, I left the nets closed, just checked the moths trap and went down again. Anne also left some of the nets closed but we still had 90 net meters. So it was a rather calm morning without a lot of walking. At nine, Anne left to meet her family today. For the last two rounds, Marit joined me after the morning obs.

There were mainly Chiffchaffs ”Gransanger” in the nets, but also a few Robins “Rødhals” and recaps of a Blackbird “Solsort” and a Dunnock “Jernspurv”.

One of todays Chiffchaffs "Gransanger". Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

The moths:

Despite the wind, I had some moth in the traps, eight different species today plus one unidentified Agonopterix. One was new for me, it was Chesias rufata “Rustrød gyvelmåler”. It is also not such a common one so I was very happy about it.

Chesias rufata "Rustrød gyvelmåler". Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

Biston strataria “Broget vintermåler” was also a nice catch, always a nice species to see.

Biston strataria “Broget vintermåler. Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

News of the station:

The rarity committee, which had a meeting at the bird observatory in the weekend left today. In the afternoon, Antonia and Frida arrived at the station, they will both stay with us until Thursday.

At the station: Thomas Kristensen, Marit Nillissen, Anne Hjortlund Hansen, David Manstrup, Hanelie Sidhu, Antonia, Joseph Stephan and Frida