The wind was strong again this morning with guts around 14 m/s and a few nets stayed closed. 

From the numbers underneath one could say that it was another low day and that Claus jannig and I preferred to watch football instead of ringing... However, if you compare it to yesterday, then it is another story! Compared to yesterday we made an increase of 100% of new birds! Two red backed shrikes, beautifull males, allowed us to reach that. As for the retraps, we can say that we capture 33% more birds than yesterday as well. And last but not least, we have more than doubled our number of different species trapped. So in the end, could we really say that it was a lazy day? :)

Tomorrow the wind should not be as strong but still coming from the same direction then changing through the day. We shall see!

Dagens ringmærkningstal ligner en joke - men er det desværre ikke! To nymærkede og tre aflæste fugle på fem timer! Ikke imponerende, men især heftig vind gav ikke de bedste forudsætninger for ringmærkning i dag, så nettene blev lukket efter standardtid. Det bliver derfor ikke ringmærkningen, men dagens hygge, der kommer i fokus på denne dags blogindlæg.

Efter standardtid gik vi - Ole, Nina og Clausjannic - et smut til Louis på odden, mens Marie fortsatte 'sin nattesøvn'. Heller ikke på odden var der dog de store ting at berette. En steppehøg, en trækkende bjergvipstjert, syngende karmindompap og to tejst tæt under kysten er nok det mest spændende. Så også her var det godt selskab og hygge, der kom i fokus. I løbet af eftermiddagen gik vi lidt 'arbejdsamok'. Ole malede, Clausjannic skrev til Fugleåret, Marie gik på odden og Nina gik i gang med aftenens måltid. Eftermiddagen blev afsluttet med at Ole og CJ eksperimenterede med den nye skærm i skolestuen, så den er nu klar til at blive brugt i formidlingen - og vise en forhåbentlig god fodboldkamp i aften, mens vi indtager aftenens festmåltid. Det må da være en passende debut for brugen af formidlingsskærmen. Vi har i dagens løb - mere ller mindre forgæves - forsøgt at lære franske Marie et par danske fodboldboldsange, men uden at vi er voldsomt benovet. 

Dagens mærkninger herunder

Morgendagens vejr ser ikke meget bedre ud end i dag, men vi er alligevel optimister! 

Folk på stationen:
Marie
Gert og Tulle
Ole 
Nina og Clausjannic

The weather being as nice as the previous days and the wind blowing west in the morning, it is not surprising that there were few birsd in the nets!

6 new birds were ringed among which a beautifull white wagtail ( hvid visptjert) female. There were also only two retraps this morning. Apparently the birds know pretty well the nets except this lesser white throat ringed last year that I still catch every now and then.

There will be Klaus Yannig and Ninna at the house this week end, so let's hope we'll get something good.

Another summerday! It was a bit cloudy at some point but it was such a nice and warm weather throughout the day.

There were still few birds around this morning, but I ended up with 11 species which is not too bad compare to the previous days!

The highlight of the day for me was an European Nuthatch (spætmesje) from the northern subspecies: Sitta europea europea. 

Compare to the ones from central Europe which have a yellowih-buff belly, these ones have a whiter belly which contrast even more with the rufous undertail covers and the flanks. 

In the end, I caught 9 new birds and 8 retraps. We can call it a draw.

The weather is still really warm and sunny, very enjoyable for leisure but unfortunately not very good for birds! 

Although there were apparently a few migrants in the garden this early morning with 4 birds in the first round, mostly icterine warblers, it dropped drastically from round number 2 onwards and the number is comparable with the number of yesterday.

At 8, two gorgeous male of redstarts got trapped, maybe chasing each other and I could't resist to share you a picture of this common but colorfull bird.

Wind changed again this afternoon but probably not in the right direction to get some new birds :(

Today, the sky was cloudy when I woke up but it slowly turned into this bright summerly day. The birds were indeed more active this morning and I got a few probably migrating birds. With the heat, it decreased throughout the morning and I was surprised to still get that many unringed reproducing lesser whitethroats (gærdesanger) in the garden.

The reed and marsh warblers were a good training for me and I was really happy to get a reed warbler to compare them. In summer, I ring about 2000 of reed´s so that felt funny to be happy to get two!

I also got my first new born chick of the season after a couple of hour ringing. It was a really cute Tree sparrow with feathers still growing. It wouldn't behave for the picture and is even pouring its tongue out!

All in all, i was a really nice day, I got a few more birds than the previous day and I'm still waiting for a more rare birds ;)

Today morning, the weather was amazingly good zith almost no wind and full sun. It even got up to  20 degrees around 10.

Expectations were high this morning because of the wind changed. But in fact, there was almost no wind at all! However, there were more non-breeding birds in the nets and less retraps than the previous days, even though the number of captures stood low.

Tomorrow the wind is Norh West and is supposed to be stronger and a tiny bit of rain could happen: so let's keep our finger crossed for some good birds in the nets tomorrow!

... gør ingen sommer. Sådan cirka deromkring er der omtrent et gammelt ordsprog, der siger. Og sommer var det virkeligt over de få fugle, der blev ringmærket i dag. Flere med rugeplet og kun en enkelt med en fedtscore på fem, som signalerede, at den var klar til en længere rejse.

Nettene blev lukket efter standardtid og kort efter var det tid til møde i stationens styregruppe. Mødet blev holdt i en sædvanlig positiv ånd, men måtte dog afbrydes et par gange, da Louis fra odden gjorde os opmærksom på, at en Alpesejler fløj rundt omkring stationen. Vi fik alle set sejleren, hvilket naturligvis vakte stor glæde. Endnu engang havde Gedser vist sig fra sin bedste side på denne dejlige sommerdag.

Alpesejleren (Alpine Swift) over Gedser Fuglestation søndag lidt efter klokken 12. Fuglen var måske kun i Danmark nogle få timer og nåede ikke længere end til Gedser By, før den om eftermiddagen forsvandt igen mod syd ud over havet. Alpesejlere er meget sjældne i Danmark, og fund skal godkendes af DOF's sjældenhedsudvalg. Foto: Ole Friis Larsen/Gedser Fuglestation

Om et par dage drejer vinden i nordvest, hvilket nok giver mindre sommerligt vejr. Men måske er det det der skal til for at det dukker et eksotisk indslag op i nettene.

Der skal lige tilføjes, at der også blev hørt vagtel lige øst for stationshaven, og 6-7 sortstrubede lommer trak forbi Odden, her fotograferet af Jan Lindgaard Rasmussen

Sortstrubet lom/ foto: Jan Lindgaard Rasmussen

Ringmærkning:

Rødrygget tornskade/Redbacked Shrike 1

Gulbug/Icterine Warbler 1

Gærdesanger/Lesser Whitethroat 1

Tornsanger/Common Whitethroat 1

Tornirisk/Linnet 1

Med en smuk solopgang, blå himmel, drivende cumulus skyer, pæne temperatur og en let til jævn vind fra sydøst var det bare en rigtig pæn dag på Danmarks sydspids.

Antallet af fugle i nettene var yderst beskedent og uden nogle overraskelser. Til gengæld var der god tid til at kikke på de enkelte fugle og lytte til Maries mange gode råd om ringmærkning og fuglebestemmelse. Så alt i alt en god dag med ringmærkning.

Marie kunne bl.a berette om hvordan en Purpurhejre blev fanget i og taget ud af et spejlnet i Frankrig og da selv samme art pludseligt dukkede op i Jylland blev antallet af deltagere på felttræffet halveret.

Louis og de tilbageværende deltagerne på felttræffet blev dog belønnet for deres tålmodighed, da en smuk Biæder trak over Odden.

Dagen blev afsluttet på bedste vis med fællesspisning i haven og i morgen sidder der måske en rigtig godbid i nettet.

Rain didn´t allow to open the nets this morning.

I opened sone nets at 13:45 in the afernoon when the sun showed up. But it was quiet and only 4 new birds were ringed today ( still better than yesterday!)

Only one lesser white throat (gærdesanger) got retrap. It had been ringed last year as an adult bird and had a brood patch today.