The first Reed Warbler for the season

Morning observations:

Marit, Thomas and I went on the morning observation today. Winds were coming from the southwest, so we were hoping on some good numbers. After we sat down, the migration started immediately. While it was mostly common scoters “Sortand”, it was a big change compared to the days before, with more than 600 in the first time interval. For the other species however it wasn’t as good. We didn’t see a lot of sandwich terns “Splitterne” or gannets “Sule”, and the amount of common terns “Fjordterne” was also not great. We did get a lot of sun though, which was nice.
After filling in all the data for the observation I joined the ringing once again. Unfortunately though, due to the nice weather and southwestern winds, the birds weren’t very keen on flying into the nets when I was present. I did get to ring my 5th bird though!

Todays observations can be seen here.

The ringing:

Today was the first day the nets already needed to be open at 4.45. Sunrise is getting earlier and earlier and the sun was soon out and we had again beautiful weather. Too good for to have a good ringing day, it was very slow but we caught the first Reed Warbler “Rørsanger” for the season.

Reed Warbler "Rørsanger". Picture: Emma Gray

Marit and Julia joined for the last rounds, unfortunately they did not provide many birds, but Julia could see the ringing and two birds in hand.

At the station: Emma Gray, Joseph Stephan, Levi van den Os, Thomas Kristensen, Hanelie Sidhu, Marit Nillissen and Julia