ringing or reading rings?..

With birdbanding, this was the worst day I've had until now. At the station garden we had 2 new birds and 1 recapture, with the best catch a collared dove, and 1 new icterine warbler at the lighthouse garden. During the ringing, we went out a lot looking for birds, and in special the turtle dove that has been hanging around for the last few days in the area. I finally got to see it too and managed to take some photo's of it as well.

After the ringing I went out for reading some rings of the gulls/terns. unfortunately, when I arrived at the gulls and terns, there where some people who disturbed the group of birds which I was photographing and unfortunately I wasn't able to read all the rings that where there. I managed to get one sandwich tern with a colour ring (G-3C9), and it turned out to be a bird ringed in north Ireland.

I also got the life history of one of the caspian gulls back, and it was ringed in Berlin in June 2022. In the warm afternoon I photographed some of the house martins that are gathering mud for their nests at the parking lot, and after that I tried reading some tree sparrow rings. Eventually I managed to read 2 rings of which one I haven't seen before, ringed in 2022 by a formal Dutch intern, Menno. 

We had a good closure of the day with Henrik taking us out for diner in Blåvand, it was good food and most importantly, very fun!