Are the blues finally over?

Morning observation:

Today Thomas and I, as always, hoped for an exciting morning observation. While we didn’t get any unusual species, we did see two larger flocks of shelducks “Gravand” and mergansers “Toppet skallesluger”, which was a nice change. Thomas’ dad also joined us this morning for the observation which was nice. The numbers today were not that great, but still better than the previous couple of days. During the obs we did have a very curious yellowhammer “Gulspurv” landing right in front of our feet. They didn’t really seem to care that we were sitting there.

Today´s observations can be seen here.

The ringing:

Again not a busy day but some nice species in the nets. The team was happy when I came down from the lighthouse garden after closing with a Bluethroat “Blåhals” and a Spotted Flycatcher “Grå Fluesnapper”.

Bluethroat "Blåhals". Picture: Emma Gray.

Spotted Flycatcher "Grå Fluesnapper". Picture: Emma Gray.

Marsh Warbler "Kærsanger". Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

The moths:

Quite many moths today, I ran out of tubes to put them in. Two new species for me, see pictures.

Delotote bankiana "Tyvebånd-dagugle". Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

Hadena bircuris "Brun nellikeugle". Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

At the station: Levi van den Os, Thomas Kristensen, Marit Nillisen, Emma Gray and Hanelie Sidhu