Tricky weather, few birds and some visitors

Morning observations:

Today there was a lot of rain forecast, but fortunately for some reason we didn’t see a single drop. Unfortunately, though, the morning was really quiet. We did see a decent amount of scoters “Sortand” and sandwich terns “Splitterne” but only a handful of gannets “Sule”. We did see quite a few passerines today with a couple of white wagtails “Hvid vipstjert” and tree pipits “Skovpiber”.

Todays observations can be seen here.

The ringing:

We were tricked by the weather a little today. After the first round, it showed a big rain front on the radar. So we were shutting down the nets so birds would not get wet. When we were supposed to be in the middle of dark blue rain on the radar, which should have been rather heavy there was no rain at all. Therefore, we opened again and had the nets open for one more hour than standard although there were actually not many birds. Emma followed us in the ringing and got to know some European passerines. We also had a visit from some friends of Anne, who saw some birds in hand and got explanations on bird ringing and some tea at the station.

Annes friends and the team at the station. Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

Blackcap female/ Munk hun. Picture: Anne Hjortlund Hansen

The moths:

I had six different species today, two were new for the season, Selenia dentaria “Almindelig månemåler” and Agrotis ipsilon “Ypsilonugle”.

Selenia dentaria “Almindelig månemåler”. Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

At the station: Emma Gray, Levi van den Os, Marit Nillissen, Anne Hjortlund Hansen, Hanelie Sidhu