Windy waders

Today the wind and rain pelted the tip, here at Gedser. As a result, no standardised ringing. Lydia joined Gert and Benny for a birding trip in Jutland today, leaving the boys at home.

The Common Sandpiper we've been playing cat and mouse with for a couple of days finally baffled itself in the wader trap and was duly ringed.

Common sandpiper - Actitis hypoleucos. Photo: Anton Liebermann

Craig and Anton battled the elements for a couple of hours out at the tip watching migration. With visibility less than a kilometre and the wind gusting well over 20 m/s any birds were a result! We managed a few bits and bobs, all the waders were in very smart summer plumage, which is great to see.

Migrating between 11:15-13:15

Eider 95
Arctic Tern 9
Common Tern 48
Grey Heron 3
Common Gull 5
Black-headed Gull 34
Herring Gull 6
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 Juvenile
Teal 2
Sandwich Tern 2
Spotted Redshank 2
Redshank 1
Common Scoter 99
Curlew 1
Ruff 2
Golden Plover 1

Apologies, these are straight from the notebook and therefore not in taxonomical order.

Resting at the tip

Cormorant 46
Eider 440
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Common Scoter c250 (hard to count in the swelling sea)
Sandwich Tern 6
Common Sandpiper 1
Wood Sandpiper 1
Herring Gull 1
Mute Swan 4
Common Gull 1

A grey seal was about just offshore.

The forecast tomorrow looks a little more pleasant than recently, fingers crossed for some ringing and migration. It's starting to hot up though.

Craig

A lesser whitethroat was the only new passerine caught today.

Danish, English and Spanish.

...and a lot of wind, of course.
Hello everybody!!
That has been the ringing session of today, Craig, Anton and I (Lydia), each one of one different country hehehe. That station is international. :D

Windy but dry day, not some many birds at the nets, hope tomorrow it will be better (if the weather permits, of course...), results of today:

Hvid Vipstjert/ White wagtail 1
Husrødstjert/ Black redstart 1
Solsort/ Black bird  2
Gulbug/ Icterine warbler 3
Gærdesanger/ Lesser whitethroat 1
Havesanger/ Garden warbler 1
Gransanger/ Chiffchaff 1
Tornirisk/ Linnet 4
 Total 14 birds + 7 recaptures = 21 birds. Good for a really windy day :)

No photos today, sorry. 
I would like to say Thank you to Craig and Anton, you´re great boys, Tak for your help :) It´s nice to have people in home. 

More, and better ( I hope, cross your fingers) tomorrow. 

Lyd ;)

Birding in the wind

The weather this morning was poor, a brisk southwesterly wind bringing horizontal rain and low visibility. With no option to open the nets, bird watching was the only thing.

A couple of hours at the tip in the morning produced a few quality birds, no quantity.

Migrants from the tip included

Dunlin 8
Curlew Sandpiper 1
Grey Plover 5
Redshank 1
Greenshank 1
Curlew 1
Snipe 2
Black Tern 2
Little Gull 1

With the migration tap switched off it was back to the station. Gert arrived and the three of us headed to Bøtø. A brief look between showers produced an impressive list of migrant waders.

Dunlin 35
Curlew Sandpiper 3
Ruff 17
Ringed Plover 18
Little Ringed Plover 1
Whimbrel 26
Curlew 2
Wood Sandpiper 21
Green Sandpiper 4
Common Sandpiper 3
Greenshank 7
Snipe 2
Temminck's stint 1

Also an impressive show from 2 Great white egrets, amongst 16 Grey Heron and a pair of White-tailed eagles were also observed.

In the afternoon a net was opened briefly but no new birds were caught. Hans brought Anton to the station in the evening, he will stay a fortnight, learning to ring and bird watching. Some wader traps were dusted off and placed by the freshwater pond in the south field, where common and green sandpiper have been frequenting. Fingers crossed for some success.

The weather tomorrow is improving with a dry but windy morning. We should be able to complete standardised, though conditions aren't favourable for migration.

Thanks for reading,

Craig

Welcome

Hello everybody!!! 

After two days of no ringing...here I am again. The two lasts days have been very rainy and windy, impossible do ringing. But today finally the rain has stopped, not for long time, because tomorrow It´s going to rain again a lot...we hope It will be the last day...

The results of today:

Gulbug/Icterine warbler 2
Gærdesanger/ Lesser whitethroat 2
Tornsanger/ Whitethroat 3
Gransanger/ Chiffchaff 3
Løvsanger/ Willow warbler 1
Skovspurv/ Tree sparrow 2
Tornirisk/ Linnet 5 

Total: 18 new birds + 7 recaptures = 25 birds :)

Another new thing it´s that today it´s my last day alone in the house!! I would like to say welcome!!!! to Craig, a English ringer. Is not his first time here in Gedser, but anyway, WELCOME :D I´m sure this month together it´s going to be great for both.  

Tomorrow, I hope, more and better. 
Lyd ;) 

The hunter hunted

Hello everybody!!!

Today has been a great day, with a lot of sun, lot of birds...:) and one of them very very very special.

Results: 
Hvid Vipstjert/ White Wagtail 1
Husrødstjert/ Black redstart 1
Rørsanger/ Reed warbler 4
Gulbug/ Icterine warbler 3
Gærdesanger/ Lesser whitethroat 1
Tornsanger/ Whitethroat 4
Løvsanger/ Willow warbler 3
Rødrygget Tornskad/ Red-backed shrike 1
Stær/ Common starling 1
Skovspurv/ Treesparrow 1
Tornirisk/Linnet 1
Tårnfalk/ Kestrel 1  :) The hunter hunted

A beautiful female (2k) here some photos, a detail of the wing. 

The Rødrygget Tornskade was very beautiful too, just a cute young :)

I think tomorrow It will be impossible to ring because the weather prediction have said we wait a big big storm tomorrow whole morning, but well, I will be here, maybe...

"See" you!!!

Lyd ;)

Tornirisk´s day

Hellooooo!

The chronicle of today couldn´t have another title. 
You will see why. 
Day with wind, sun...typical day here hehehe

Results: 

Gulbug/Icterine warble 2
Munk/Blackcap 2
Gransanger/Chiffchaff 1
Musvit/ Great tit 1
Stillits/ Goldfinch 1
Tornirisk/Linnet 8!!!!+ 2 recaptures...10 tornirisk today. Now you understand better the title? ;)

Total: 15 new birds of 6 species + 5 recaptures= 20 birds. The Tornirisk are the 50%!!!

Another interesting thing is that the most of the birds were young birds. Very young birds, with the feathers growing...second bred?
Here photos of the most beautiful tornirisk of today, and the baby stillits :D

Tomorrow, more and better (I hope) 
Lyd ;)

The wait...and the results!!!

Hello!!!!

Friends, yes, today, finally, after a lot of days hearing this cute bird singing at the top of the trees...today...he was into the net!!!! My dear yellow hammer :) 

Today has been a really good day, with lot of sun, and no wind. 

The results: 

Hvid vipstjert/ White wagtail 1

Hursødstjert/ Black redstart 1

Rødstjert/ Redstart 1

Sangdrossel/ Song thrush 1

Gulbug/Icterine warbler 6

Tornsanger/ Whitethroat 3

Munk/ Blackcap 1

Løvsanger/ Willow warbler 1

Tornirisk/ Linnet 3

Gulspurv/ Yellow hammer 1

Totall: 19 birds of 10 species + 2 recaptures= 21 birds :)

Here there are some photos of the really cute yellow hammer. What do you think? It isn´t?

"See" you tomorrow!!!

Lyd ;)

Standardized period starts again

Hello!!!

Yesterday, Monday 20th of July,  the standardized ringing period started again :) So, I´m going to ring every day again, can´t wait to see which new birds are in the nets again!! But the weather is not very agree with that, I think...

Yesterday I didn´t have much time, so two chronicles again together, (last time, I promise hehe). I think it's more easy  to start with today, 21th :

Today very early in the morning was very windy and raining, I have started to open the nets at the same hour like always, but I have closed the nets at 6:20 a.m...Only 3 hours of ringing. 2 new birds at the nets, and one recapture, Munk, Gransanger and Musvit. And that´s all about today, because it has continued raining until 10 a.m in the morning...

20th July, yesterday, was a normal ringing session, I needed to open the nets 30 mins.after the normal hour cause the rain...but OK, many birds in a interesting morning: 

Jernspuv/ Dunnok 1

Rødstjert/ Redstart 1

Tornsanger/ Whitethroat 2

Munk/ Blackcap 1

Gransanger/ Chiffchaff 2

Løvsanger/ Wollow warbler 2

Skovspurv/ Treesparrow 1

Stillits/ Goldfinch 1

Tornirisk/ Linnet 4

Total: 15 birds of 9 species+5 recaptures= 20 birds :) 

After the ringing, Gert and I went to do birdwatching in a beautiful place called " Kallø Grå". It was really fantastic!! I found 4 new species for me!!:

Islandsk Ryle (Calidris canutus)  

Sortklire (Tringa erythropus)

Lille Kobbersneppe ( Limosa lapponica)

Storspove ( Numenius arquata) 

Moreover of more beautiful species. Some of this Vadefugles are not really new for me (except the 4 of the list), but in Spain some of them are winter birds, and I only have seen them with winter feathers!!! Here they are completely different. It´s amazing.   

Thank you very very very much Gert (and thank you to your wife too) for the little trip and for invite me to have dinner at you home yesterday :)  

Sorry for the long chronicle hehehe

More, tomorrow. If the weather permits it, of course. 

Lyd ;) 

My sincerest apologies

Good night!
Sorry. I was wrong. I put that the Common Reed-Bunting was an adult female, (at the last chronicle of today - now corrected) but some of you have corrected me, it´s a young bird. I thought it was an adult because the feathers were very spoiled, and the young birds usually have all the feathers very new.

Really sorry. And thank you very much for the correction.

Good night, and sweet dreams every body.
See you on Monday.

A new interesting species for me

Hello everybody!!!

That´s the chronicle of today. Beautiful ringing day, with a lot of different species12!! Today is the last ringing day until the standardized period, until Monday. Sunny day. The results of today:

Rødstjert/ Redstart 1

Kærsanger/ Marsh warbler 1

Rørsanger/ Reed warbler 2

Gulbug/ Icterine warbler 1

Tornsanger/ Whitethroat 1

Gransanger/ Chiffchaff 4

Træløber/ Eurasian treecreeper 1

Rødrygget Tornskad/ Red-back shrike 1

Stær/ Common starling 1

Skovspurv/ Tree sparrow 1

Tornirisk/ Linnet 1

Rørspurv/ Common Reed-Bunting 1 ** New species for my list!!

A beautiful Rørspurv :) and..why is special for me? Because is the first that I caught here in Denmark, and is the same case of the Munk or the Gransanger, is a winter bird for me :) In Spain, where I live, you only can see them in winter time. 

Another interesting case is the Stær (a young bird), it was doing his first moult. Easy to see the beautiful differences between young old feathers and the new feathers. 

For finish...always is a pleasure for me to catch this wonderful but angry bird...

See you on Monday my friends 

Lyd ;)

Yesterday: Half ringer- half tourist

Hello!!!
Today two chronicles, yesterday, and latter, today. 

Yesterday was a very good ringing day, with two new species for me!!! Not totally new, only new ringing here in Denmark: Rødhals (a young bird) and a beautiful Rødstjert. 

The results of yesterday:
Rødhals/Robin 1
Rødstjert/ Redstart 1
Gulbug/ Icterine warbler 2
Gærdesanger/ Lesser whitethroat 1
Tornsanger/ Whitethroat 3
Munk/ Blackcap 4
Gransanger/ Chiffchaff 4
Løvsanger/ Willow warbler 4
Træløber/ Eurasian treecreeper 4
Skovspurv / Treesparrow 2

Total: 26 birds of 10 species, and 3 recaptures = 29 birds Good!!!!

When I finished my ringing session, Gert and I went to do a few of tourism at the north of Møn, in the Geo Center. Very beautiful and interesting place, with lot of tourists!!! Thank you very much Gert. 

Really nice day for me. 

Lyd;)

Preparing the garden to the next ringing season

Holaaaa!!

Last week before standardized time start again. It begins next Monday, so, we are doing all the things to prepare the garden to the new ringing season :)

We have had 3 days of intense garden work. The garden is enormous and the plants grow very very fast!!! No ringing those days, just taking care of the garden.

I would like to say thank you to Hans, Benny, Gert, and Jan for help me with the hard work!!! We have done a great job. It´s not finished, but, I only need to cut the grass, and all thing will be done.
Part of  the team (Hans was doing the photos, and Jan in the opposite part of the garden):

My friends, not only plants this time!! I love butterflies too, and Hans and Gert are teaching me a lot of your Danish butterflies and Moths :) Thank you very much!!! Tak!!Yesterday I was in Gert´s house, and he explain me a lot of different and interesting things! Your collection is amazing, Gert. He and his wife, invited me to eat another delicious Danish food. Now I can say again: I LOVE DANISH FOOD!!!! :D Tak. 

Lyd ;)

Learning every day

Hola!!!!

Cloudy day in Gedser today. Sunday, day with a lot of visits :) and with a lot of birds too:

Husrødsjert/ Blck redstart 2
Solsort/Blackbird 1
Gulbug/Icterine warbler 4
Gærdesanger/Lesser whitethroat 1
Tornsanger/ Whitethroat 2
Munk/ Black cap 3
Gransanger/ Chiffchaff 2
Løvsanger/ Willow warbler 3
Skovspurv/ Tree sparrow 1
Grønirisk/ Greenfinch 1
Tornirisk/ Linnet 3
total: 23 birds of 11 species + 5 recaptures = 28 birds :)

After this great day of ringing, Gert and I have gone to do birdwatching. A great morning seeing a lot of different species: Gråstrubet lappedykker, Tranes, Strandskade, Klyde (lot of them), Vibe, Almindelig ryle, Stormmåge, lot of Swans, Gravand, Troldand...and more.
One new specie for me: Tinksmed ( Tringa glareola)!!! :D I´m very happy with this birdiwatching session.I    I´m learning avery day.

Thank you very very very much Gert for your time :)

Today we have had a lot of visitors at the ringing session , I don´t have any photo, sorry. Next time, I promise.

"See" you the next ringing day
Lyd ;)

Danish birds and danish food

Good morning!!!

Yesterday was a very intense and beautiful day for me. Very windy day, buy at least, sunny, without rain. Last day of birding for Rasmus, our captures were:

Husrødstjert/ Black redstart 1
Sangdrossel/ Song Thrush 1* New specie for my list!!!! Very common in Spain, but my first ringed here :)
Gulbug/ Icterine warbler 1
Gærdesanger/ Lesser whitethroat 2
Tornsanger/ Whitethroat 2
Munk/ Blackcap 1
Tornirisk/ Linnet 5

Total: 13 birds of 7 species + 13 recaptures = 26 birds :D

First, I would like to say good bay to Rasmus, it has been a pleasure for me teach you some birds things. I hope that it has been a great experience for you, and I hope see you again!!!

Besides, yesterday I lived a very special evening, because a nice couple of birdwatchers invited me to their home to taste typical danish food :D Thank you very much for all, the food was delicious. I love Danish food!!!

Not only about food was the evening hehehe, we went to see some Tranes :D they are absolutely beautiful, rares for me, I only can see them in my country in migration time. We could see few of them,. including a cute chick. Thank you very much!!!!

Lyd ;)

Genmelding fra Italien/Recovery from Italy

I dag tikkede denne genmelding ind fra Ringmærkningscentralen (Italienerne er åbenbart ikke så hurtige!):

En ung munk af hunkøn, som Jesper B. mærkede 31. august 2012, blev fanget og aflæst af en ringmærker i Italien 21. september 2012! 

Munk (blackcap) hun genfanget efter 21 dage lidt vest for Milano, en strækning i luftlinje på 1046 km, hvilket svarer til ca. 50 km om dagen (eller rettere om natten, da munk er nat-trækker!)

Den 31. august 2012 var forøvrigt en ganske særlig dag på Gedser Fuglestation. Henrik (Guldhenrik) og Jesper snakkede dagen før om, at der kun manglede ca. 500 fugle i at slå augustrekorden i ringmærkede fugle. Det mente de var umuligt at slå, men dagen endte alligevel på et meget stort antal: 732 nymærkede fugle af 26 arter, så rekorden var hjemme. De store fangster var præget af Sylvia-sangere: munk 183, havesanger 136, tornsanger 69, gærdesanger 62 og hele 3 høgesangere!

Ingen ringmærkning i dag med stormende kuling og regnbyger, så Gert tog de unge mennesker en tur med til Lolland, hvor Rasmus fik set sin første Rødhovedet And!

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Lot of wind, few birds, but a wonderful Tornirisk.

Good morning everybody!!!

Windy day in Gedser. Really windy day. We have opened the nets at the same hour than always, but, only 7 birds in the morning :( At least is sunny...

Hvid Vipstjert/ White wagtail 1

Tornsanger/ White throat 1

Gransanger/ Chiffchaff 2

Grønirisk/ Greenfich 1

Tornirisk/Linnet 2

Total: 7 birds of 5 species + 2 recaptures. 

This evening we would like go to the tip to see some birds...if the wind permit it, of course...

The good new of today, at least for me, a beautiful Yellow hammer singing near the nets, I hope to ring it some day :), it´s rare for me and I´m sure I will learn a lot. 

I´m not sure if we´ll be able to ring tomorrow, the weather prediction says a lot of rain and wind for all day 

Photos of today: A cute Hvid vipstjert, and a very beautiful Tornirisk. Do you agree? 

Lyd ;)

Migration

Hello everybody!!!

Today has been a very common ringing day here in Gedser. No new species, but a lot of beautiful birds:

Jernspurv/ Dunnock 1
Solsort/ Blackbird 3
Gulbug/ Icterine warbler 3
Gærdesanger/ Lesser whitethroat 2
Tornsanger/ Common whitethroat 1
Havesanger/ Garden warbler 1
Munk/ Blackcap 2
Gransanger/ Chiffchaff  7
Tornirisk/ Linnet 4

Total_: 24 new birds of 9 species + 15 recaptures = 39 Birds!!!!! Great.

Today I have not been alone, I have a guest who is here just for seeing birds, and learning a lot of them. I ring alone, because he is so young (15 years old)  but, he is a good company :) Thanks Rasmus!!!

I would like to speak about migration because for me is a very beautiful and interesting thing. Lot of birds move every year from one part of the world to another, looking for the best weather for them. Since I´m here in Denmark, I see it a lot of times in mi ringings. For example, Munk (Sylvia atricapilla), is for me a winter bird!! In Spain you only can see them between October and February, more or less, but here, in Denmark, is a summer bird, they are breeding :) It´s veeeery interesting for me. Same case of the Phylloscopus collibyta (Chiffchaff).

Not only with ringings we can see the migration, of course. Only 10 minutes from me home, there is the "tip", at the southern most point of Denmark. Here, everyday, you see a lot of migrant birds starting their travel :) Every day I see a lot of eiders flying over the sea, cormorants, swans...Thank you Louis for show me that wonderful place.

For finish my chronicle of today, I would like to say Thank you very much, or Tak!! to Gert, because he has showed Rasmus and I his biiiiig collection of butterflies. It´s really amazing!!!!!

More and better, tomorrow :)
Lyd.

I´m back!!!

Hello!!!!

I´m here again :) and ringing again, too. The garden is beautiful with lot of flowers and lot of young birds starting to fly. Yesterday I couldn´t did the chronicle, but here there are the results:

Rørsanger/ Reed warbler 1
Gulbug/ Icterine warbler 1
Gærdesanger/ Lesser whitethroat 4
Tornsanger/ Whitethroat 3
Munk/ Black cap 1
Gransager/ Chif chaf  7
Løvsanger/ Willow warbler 1
Blåmejse/ Blue tit 1
Musvit/ Great tit 2
Tornirisk/ Linnet 1
Husrødstjert/ Black redstart 1 **  New specie for my list!!

Total: 23 birds of 11 species + 2 recaptures= 25 birds.

Well, the redstart is very common in Spain, but it´s the first time that I ring it here in Denmark :)

Today  hasn´t been a ringing day, because the wind...very very very strong. In my opinion, wind is very dangerous for the birds who are into the nets, cause the movement of the net, if the net moves a lot with the birds inside, it can hurt the bird. Hope it will be less windy tomorrow...

I would like show you two photos , one of the new specie of my list, and other of my totally new specie that I ringed before my travel to Copenhagen: The Stor flagspæette :) I hope you like these.

New ringing session, tomorrow!!!!
Lyd

Lille status over foråret

Vi er netop kommet ind i andet halvår af 2015, så det er på sin plads at gøre lidt status over forårets fangster ved fuglestationen.

Trods et koldt og blæsende forår endte vi med en total på 2.967 fugle, det fjerdehøjeste antal siden vores start i 2001, kun overgået af 2010 (4.446), 2014 (3.262) og 2009 (3.028), så vi er ganske godt tilfredse.

Hvidskægget sanger

Topscorer blev - ikke overraskende - rødhals med 547 nymærkninger, efterfulgt af fuglekonge (264) og jernspurv (236). Ny på listen blev jo den dejlige hvidskæggede sanger, som vi har ventet på i mange år. Bemærkes bør osse et rekordstort antal rødtoppede fuglekonger - hele 44 stk! 14 kernebidere er osse det højeste antal på et år her på Gedser Odde.

Men her er listen:

Der er i alt mærket 64 arter!

Der er mærket 2967 fugle i perioden!

                                         Marts   April    Maj     Juni    I alt:

Gråand                                    0       0       1       0       1

Spurvehøg                                 0       0       1       0       1

Vendehals                                 0       1       0       0       1

Stor Flagspætte                            0       1       0       1       2

Digesvale                                  0       0      19      3       22

Landsvale                                  0       0       1       1       2

Skovpiber                                  0       0       5       0       5

Gul Vipstjert                                0       0       0       2       2

Hvid Vipstjert                               0       3      10      7       20

Gærdesmutte                               40      46      7       2       95

Jernspurv                                  69     129     31      7      236

Rødhals                                   36     500     10      1      547

Nattergal                                   0       0       2       0       2

Husrødstjert                                0       5       0       1       6

Rødstjert                                  0      13      27      1       41

Ringdrossel                                0       4       0       0       4

Solsort                                    54      26      8      11      99

Sjagger                                    0       1       0       0       1

Sangdrossel                                12      32      6       0       50

Vindrossel                                 3       4       0       0       7

Kærsanger                                 0       0       2       4       6

Rørsanger                                 0       0       5       8       13

Gulbug                                    0       0      15      48      63

Hvidskægget sanger                        0       0       1       0       1

Gærdesanger                               0      14      97      20      131

Tornsanger                                0       2      96      38      136

Havesanger                                0       0      71      19      90

Munk                                      0      28      51      20      99

Skovsanger                                0       0       3       0       3

Gransanger                                11     125     32      18      186

Løvsanger                                 0      84      82      8      174

Fuglekonge                               168     94      2       0      264

Rødtoppet fuglekonge                      8      35      1       0       44

Grå Fluesnapper                            0       0       5       7       12

Lille fluesnapper                            0       0       1       0       1                                  :

Broget fluesnapper                          0       4       4       0       8

Nordlig halemejse                           10      0       0       0       10

Nordlig x Sydlig halemejse                    2       0       0       0       2

Sydlig halemejse                            3       0       0       0       3

Sumpmejse                                0       0       0       3       3

Sortmejse                                  1       0       0       0       1

Blåmejse                                   35      12      2       1       50

Musvit                                     84      16      6       2      108

Spætmejse                                 0       0       0       4       4

Træløber                                   4       2       1       1       8

Rødrygget tornskade                        0       0       7       4       11

Stor Tornskade                             1       0       0       0       1

Stær                                      1       2       1       2       6

Gråspurv                                   1       0       3       0       4

Skovspurv                                 2       4       8       6       20

Bogfinke                                   19      41      18      10      88

Kvækerfinke                                3       4       0       0       7

Grønirisk                                   16      35      15      7       73

Stillits                                     1       6      10      1       18

Grønsisken                                 35      3       0       0       38

Tornirisk                                   0      23      38      26      87

Gråsisken                                  0       2       2       1       5

Lille Gråsisken                              0       0       1       0       1

Karmindompap                             0       0       0       2       2

Dompap                                   0       1       0       0       1

Stor Dompap                               2        0       0       0       2

Kernebider                                 3       6       4       0       13

Gulspurv                                   9       4       1       0       14

Rørspurv                                  2       8       2       0       12

I alt:                                      635    1320    715     297     2967

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