Oh DMI, you rascal!

Observations:

Today started out like other days lately. With a shit forecast. The dutiful volunteer I am, I managed to get into obs position in spite of this. I was rewarded, not with many birds, but a surprisingly lovely day of mild temperatures, cool breezes and no rain. Birds were really just low numbers of the same waders we have been seeing of late on account of the wind being quite low, and rain showers in surrounding areas. I enjoyed the morning with all my rainclothes on the ground beside me and the serenity of a still morning on Denmarks western coast.

A Eurasian Wryneck (Jynx torquilla) was found in the surrounding areas. Probably the same individual from yesterday. Sadly it didn't go in the nets so we need to wait a bit longer for that experience.

Todays observations:

Ringing:

Because of the risk of rain, there was no standard ringing today. The nets were first opened after the Wryneck was spotted, but with it not heeding our wishes and instead staying outside of the nets, we were in for a quite boring around 9 hours of ringing in the Station Garden. In spite of only catching 10 birds in total, we did get some slightly interesting species such as the fourth Spotted Flycatcher (Muscucapa striata) of the season, a very nice recapture of a Crested Tit (Lophophanes cristatus), as well as the second Marsh Warbler (Acrocephalus palustris) of the season, which was both a lifer and a first ringed of the species for Strummer.

Today's captures:

At the station: Johan, Strummer, Alba, Kristoffer, Maria