I caspianot believe this day

Morning Observation
The wind is still the same... Nothing much is happening over the sea except for some razorbills and guillemots, and a sigle velvet scooter. Most birds go north in days like this. A bird of meadowbirds, some nice big flocks of red crossbills, a teeny bit of chaffinches and les than five bramblings. Not a lot of birds wanted to fly today, so we enjoyed a good look at all the resting birds. I counted eight red throated divers (rødstrubet lom), approximately twenty greater black backed gulls (svartbag) and even a BEAUTIFUL 1k caspian gull (kaspisk måge). The lead for best birds today is either the caspian gull or the four merlins (dværgfalk) we had today. The caspian gull can be hard to destinguish from the hering gull. But there is a lot of small differences like the cvaspian being a bit thinner with a more flat fronthead and bigger contrast in colors. In their winter plumage they are easier to tell apart as the herring gulls head becomes more gray, whereas the caspian gulls stay white in all plumages:)

- 1k Caspian gull (left) and adult herring gull (sølvmåge, right)

After the morningobs we (Andreas Pedersen, Mikkel Bello and I) went looking for rare birds. Not a lot of activity in the shrubberies, but definetely a nice walk and day none the less:)

- SDP

Ringing

As the wind was a bit to strong to open the nets straight away, we used this opportunity to do a maintenance day! Great fun! Mathilde and myself (Lua) fixed a few wind damaged nets, did some leaf control and cut some wood around the nets.

Henrik was in the same headspace and cut the lawn around the nets at the station, everything is nice and in tip top shape! Later on it was possible to open some of our nets, as we had seen a nice movement of diffrent tit flocks. We mainly caught coal tits (sortmejse) but also had a nice little selection of blue tits, great tits, blackcaps and two beautiful bullfinches in their very fresh and shiny adult coat!

-LK

Folk på stationen: Lua Koplin, Sverre Dahl Porsgaard, Mathilde Lundt Larsen, Anna Beluga Gade-Jørgensen og Andreas Pedersen