1Ks on the move!

Morning observations:

Emma, Marit, Thomas and I all went to the morning observation today. As we are coming to the end of the season, we thought it would be fun to all join.

We had an okay observation today with some more variation that usual. The numbers themselves weren’t that great, except for the scoters “Sortand” of course. We had a couple of brant geese “Knortegås” and quite a lot of barn swallows “Landsvale” again. But the highlight of the day were probably four arctic skua’s “Almindelig kjove”, one of which showed off with a very close flyby!

All in all not the best day we’ve had, but also not the worst!

Today´s observations can be seen here.

The ringing:

Hawfinch male/ Kernebider han. Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

The day started with no birds in the nets until I came to Krattet. From far I already saw a few birds all in one net and heard Great Tits “Musvit” that were flying close to the net and calling. As there were no other birds, I had some time and decided to go back to the lab for five minutes, hoping the Tits would call more in the net. When I came back I had six 1K Great Tits “Musvit” and their mother, she was already ringed, in the net. One furious Tit did not go in the net but stayed around calling while I was taking the birds out, probably the father. He did not need to wait long until I released his family all together and I hope they all found each other again.

1K Great Tit/ Musvit. Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

It was still not many birds, the round with the Tits was the biggest today, but I had some more nice ones, a 1K Yellowhammer “Gulspurv”, a 1K White Wagtail “Hvid Vipstjert” and a male Hawfinch “Kernebider”.

1K Yellowhammer "Gulspurv". Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

The house Martins “Bysvale” are very active around the house. Amazed by the bird of yesterday, the others wished to catch more and Henrik proposed they could just try two people holing a net and moving with it. It worked quite well and we caught in total tree House Martins “Bysvale”. One of them was a recapture that was ringed last spring by Micheal.

House Martins/ Bysvale. Picture: Levi van den Os

The moths:

The moths made me a bit busy today, I had 27 different species (one of them a slash species), two of them were new for me.

A new one for me: Deilephila porcellus/ Lille vinsværmer. Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

Not new but quite a nice one: Korscheltellus lupilina/ Konvalrodæder. Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

At the station: Henrik Böhmer, Marit Nillissen, Levi van den Os, Thomas Kristensen, Emma Grey, Joseph Stephan and Hanelie Sidhu