A pecking goodbye!

Morning obs:

We woke up to it being quite misty and damp, leaving us without much hope for the day. And the first couple of intervals were also very boring with just 5 or so species. However when Thomas arrived he also arrived with the birds, because the mist lifted a little allowing us to see more birds, such as the red-throated diver and the black scooters. A couple of odd species also arrived such as the common merganser, common goldeneye and snow buntings that lifted the day a little. The mist made it so that the birds that we saw were very close allowing us to see greater details on the birds, than if they were father away. But the bird of the day will have to go to the snow bunting that called with its beautiful whistle and nice white wings. 

Ringing:

The morning started quite misty, which turned out to be very fortunate for us since by the first round we already had gotten more then 10 birds! While most of the were blackbirds, we had one very special one and first for me (Lua) at this station, a beautiful first year female fieldfare!

As the day moved on, we had to say goodbye to Selina, who left mid morning, but not without a special bird to sweeten the goodbye, a beautiful young female woodpecker!

No screams but a lot of angry stares! As this ringing day started to slow down and we were considering closing all the nets, Oliver, who was in the house, came out to the station garden, pointing out a bird to us that he had seen from the window, a stunning firecrest, who we caught a round later! As the last bird, it was a real sweet treat for all of us!

-LK

Folk på stationen: Lua Koplin, Sverre Dahl Porsgaard, Mathilde Lundt Larsen, Oliver Laursen, Selina Veng, Henrik Böhmer, Thomas Kristensen