New ears in the station garden

The new week started with nice weather. Luckily, the rain stopped in the morning, which meant we could open the nets as usual. However, there were unfortunately not a lot of birds moving in the nets. During the later morning net checks we even had a few rounds with no captures at all.

A really nice moment came when we were able to welcome back an old friend of Hanelie´s – a Great Tit “Musvit” that she ringed here in autumn 2024.

There is also exciting news form the station garden. Henrik managed to set up an audio recorder running BirdNET-Pi and installed it next to the ringing lab outside in the garden. The automated system continuously records the surrounding soundscape and uses artificial intelligence to identify bird species based on their calls and songs. The system analyses the recordings in real time. This means that from now on we can follow bird activity in the garden whenever we want.

At the obs Henriks highlights were three different Grebe species: A Red-Necked Grebe “Gråstrubet Lapedykker”, a Slavonian Grebe “Nordisk Lappedykker” and a Black-Necked Grebe “Sorthalset Lapedykker”!

A deer at sunset close to the lighthouse garden by Hanelie

After, he went on a long beach walk to look for dead birds for a project of DOF. We are curious about what he found.

At the station: Henrik Bøhmer, Paula Feuchtmeyer and Hanelie Sidhu