The Robin from Norway

Morning observations:

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Today’s morning observations were quite good compared to the previous days. After two days of bad visibility, we finally had a full obs of three hours with good visibility. There was a decent amount of scoters “Sortand” today and we saw a single common murre/razorbill “Lomvie/Alk”. The most surprising part of the obs however was the large amount of red-throated divers “Rødstrubet lom” today. They flew in beautiful flocks of 10 to 15 birds above, across and under the horizon. Overall, a welcoming change compared to the foggy days before!

Todays observations can be seen here.

In the evening, we had a very fun movie night! We watched “The Big Year”, which was very appropriate for the station and had such a heartwarming and fun story!

The ringing:

We did not catch as many birds as yesterday, but we had some nice ones. On the wish list on the board, Anne had written that she wanted to catch some finches. And here they were, we had a beautiful Goldfinch “Stillits” as well as a pretty Brambling “Kvækerfinke”.

Goldfinch/ Stillits. Picture: Anne Hjortlund Hansen

Brambling/ Kvækerfinke. Picture: Anne Hjortlund Hansen

In the closing round, I saw a Robin with I ring in a net in the station garden. I wanted to check if it was one of today´s, but it had a Norwegian ring!

Robin/ Rødhals from Norway. Picture: Anne Hjortlund Hansen

I was really happy about that catch, it is not always the rare birds, that make me happy, but also recaptures, especially from long-distance migrants, that already have a ring and you can see in the database, that they were ringed one or two years ago and came back here from Africa to breed. Or recaptures from other countries! So now we are very much looking forward to the report of that bird, to see when and where it was caught.

The moths:

I did not have many different moths in the traps, just six species. I will show Gymnoscelis rufifasciata “Rødbandet dværgmåler”.

Gymnoscelis rufifasciata “Rødbandet dværgmåler”. Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

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