Pretty sunrise and rain showers

This morning after a quick rain shower which forced me to delay the opening of the nets by around 30min, I decided to open the station garden nets only as the rain showers still looked really menacing on the radar, and I wanted to keep quick control of the nets if it started to rain out of nowhere. 

The sunrise looked promising though, but some big clouds were sitting over the sea.

Beautiful sunrise over the station this morning

The morning was extraordinarly quiet, both bird wise and wind wise. In the whole 5h of the nets being open, I only caught one Chiffchaff (Gransanger). Then, on the closing round as it was raining, I caught three birds, two Greenfinches (Grønirisk) and recaptured one Icterine Warbler (Gulbug). Making the grand total for today, 4 birds. 

The two greenfinches I suspect to have been a pair, one was a female and the other a male, caught in the same net next to each other. They were both exhibiting signs of breeding (brood patch for the female, and cloacal protrusion for the male). That was really cute! I released them together, just in case.

Male Greenfinch (Grønirisk), with a little rain drop on his head

In other news, I might have caught a cold! :( Quite the crazy thing to happen in mid-june ahaha. I'm sure I'll feel better soon though :P

This afternoon, if I feel good enough for it, I will go check a Stock Dove nest that Amanda and I found about a week ago, to see how the eggs are doing, perhaps they have hatched now!