Catching leaves- Pallas leaf warbler!

Morning Obeservations

The wind died down and its getting cold! Two meters per second from east, ZERO DEGREES CELSIUS and thirty birdwatchers. The day brought nice numbers of eiders (ederfugle, roughly 300), mostly males goin north. We also got a lot of gray geese (grågås, 200) some jackdaws (allike 200), rooks (100), crows and some overflying finches and larks and stuff like that. Also starlings. Not a bad day and quite intertaining. The most interesting birds were a great crested grebe (toppet lappedykker) and three lapwings (viber). After the observation i joined the ringers for a couple rounds.

In the evening Anna Beluga, Lua, Andreas, Mikkel Bello and I went for a trip to the military heath area to look for wolves. Well prepared after the presentation from Kent Olsen we were ready to find some beautiful grey beasts. We quickly saw some footprints in the sand, but no actual wolves, Mikkel did however spot a eurasian great horned-owl (stor hornugle). And we saw both cranes and red dear. What a wonderful day!

- Wolve footprints and Sverres hand for scale

- SDP

Ringing

Today, as we had expected, the birds in the nets were plenty and quite special! We started the morning with some interested young birders joining us on the first 3 rounds, to observe and learn the in and outs of ringing birds. We had a few different thrushes to compare, which made for some great pictures and lessons! The same with the bullfinches and chaffinches, which show very easy identifiable sexual dimorphism. Then numbers started to pick up a little bit with several tit swarms, including long tailed tits! And just as we were getting excited about today's numbers, we caught the most amazing little bird, the Pallas leaf-warbler!

This tiny little warbler was also a perfect people magnet, so we got a lot of visitors at the station to witness this amazing moment!

Bird numbers stayed high until we caught 2 other unusual birds in the net, a young male siskin and then a beautiful common starling which fascinated everyone to see it!

It was an amazing day for ringing, with over 200 birds including some very special individuals and hopefully more to come tomorrow!

-LK

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