Pied Flycatcher day!

The ringing:

More long-distance migrants have arrived in our nets! In the first round, we were amazed by many Pied Flycatchers “Broget Fluesnapper” and Redstarts “Rødstjert” in the nets.

Pied Flycatcher male/ Broget Fluesnapper han. Picture: Marit Nillissen

Redstart male/ Rødstjert han. Picture: Anne Hjortlund Hansen

And we were amazed, that we finally had a day with many birds in the nets! Unfortunately, the weather was not amazing, and when the fog turned into light rain, we had the nets shut for one hour, but could continue ringing after, as it got dry again. We still got quite some birds and also some more nice species, a Sedge Warbler “Sivsanger” and a Tree Pipit “Skovpiber”.

Sedge Warbler/ Sivsanger. Picture: Marit Nillissen

The observers went back earlier because of bad visibility and Marit and Thomas joined the ringing for some rounds. Thomas got to ring his second and third bird.

Before the visibility became less than one kilometer, they had some Sandwich Terns “ Splitterne” and a few Common Terns “Fjorsterne” on migration.

Todays observations can be seen here.

The moths:

The moths traps also caught quite well today, I had 15 different species, no new ones for me but four new ones for the season, in bold in the list.

Macrothylacia rubi male left, female right/ Brombærspinder han til venstre, hun til højre. Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

Pheosia tremula/ Poppelporcelænsspinder. Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

Trip to Skallingen:

Straight when the nets were closed, we grabbed our Binoculars and a Telescope and went to Skallingen in Annes car. We walked along the beach to look for dead birds for Levis project, but all birds we found were already quite rotten and not useful to take. There were not many birds on the beach, but we saw some Ringed Plovers “Stor Præstekrave” and Levi took some nice pictures.

Ringed Plover/ Stor Prastekræve. Picture: Levi van den Os

The last part of the way back, we left the beach and saw some birds in the meadows, especially Wheatears “Stenpikker”, and a nice Wryneck “Vendehals”.

Wheatear/ Stenpikker. Picture: Levi van den Os

Back at the station, Anne baked cake as her parents came to take the car home. Later we also had some of the cake, it was a Pied Flycatcher “Broget Fluesnapper” cake, Anne had painted one on it and it was nearly to sad to destroy the painting and eat the cake.

Pied Flycatcher/ Broget Fluesnapper cake. Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

At the station: Anne Hjortlund Hansen, Marit Nillissen, Levi van den Os, Thomas Kristensen, Emma Gray, Hanelie Sidhu