Tomorrow was a better day!

Morning observation
Lo and behold, it was finally a way better day! With the last couple of days being quite bad for the observation and the ringing, it was quite a surprise to suddenly have such a good day again. While Thomas and I didn't see any very surprising birds, except for a very close flying arctic skua "Almindelig kjove", we did have quite a large amount of birds compared to the previous days! Particularly the resting bird count was high with some 400 common gulls "Stormmåge" and 100 sanderlings "Sandløber".

Today's observations can be seen here.

After the observation I joined the ringing until closing, where I got to ring another willow warbler "Løvsanger" and practice with changing positions in the hand. Bent was also at the station this morning, which resulted in this nice photo that Emma took of the birders in their natural habitat! :)

Some serious birders out there (and a house martin)!  Picture: Emma Gray

Ringing
Today I joined the ringing instead of the obs. The weather forecast looked better than the other days, so we had good hopes. Kyle joined me until 09:00 in the morning of the ringing. After that, Emma and Levi joined me. We had some couple of good rounds, where we got 5 birds each round only in the Lighthouse garden. Eventually it started to slow down. We got some finches today, the Chaffinch “Bogfinke”, Greenfinch “Grønirisk” and a Goldfinch “Stillits”. Another nice bird we got in the nets was a Great tit “Musvit” who was not happy with me, as it was biting me all the time while I was trying to get it out of the net.

Finch #1, a chaffinch. Picture: Marit Nillissen

Finch #2, a goldfinch. Picture: Marit Nillissen

Finch #3, a greenfinch. Picture: Marit Nillissen

At the station: Emma Gray, Joseph Stephan, Thomas Kristensen, Morten Jenrich Hansen, Levi van den Os, Marit Nillissen and Kyle Tittse