Nerding sound and rare bills

Morgenobs:
The westerly wind continues. Henrik Læssøe, Mikkel Bello, Oliver Laursen and i sat sheltered and awaited the migrating birds of the day. Most birds, like the red throated divers, went north. We had a wonderful little auk (søkong) going south, Oliver saw it first and called it out. Later in the day we had two parrot crossbills (stor korsnæb) going north. We heard them, Mikkel caught them on audiotape, and i processed the sonogram. To register a semirare bird like the parrot crossbill you need a good dirscription typically paired with a soundrecording of the flight call for smaller birds. Today the sonogram looks like this.

- The sonogram shows five flightcalls from parrot crossbills

After the obs we tried to go find a rare pallas leaf warbler (fuglekongesanger). No luck but still a nice day. This is officiallt the last day of Felttræf, but people will probably stick around for a couple of days. So i am crossing my fingers for more rare birds througout the weekend. Tomorrow the wind will die down a lot and change direction:)

- SDP

Ringmærkning:

With the wind still being very strong, the day started off quite slow, with one goldcrest (fuglekong) and one robin. Later on we caught a small group of coal tits (sortmejse) and a few other new birds! With a bit more time on our hands, Anna and I (Lua) have been playing a lot "chunky birds", where we compare birds of the same species and the heaviest bird wins. Today it was my Robin (rødhals) on the right with 16.4 grams, against 15.8 grams of Anna's bird on the left!

-LK

Folk på stationen: Lua Koplin, Sverre Dahl Porsgaard, Mathilde Lundt Larsen, Anna Beluga Gade-Jørgensen, Andreas Pedersen samt gæster i forbindelse med Felttræf