Today was a nice and interesting day. There were quite some birds in the garden. Many Willow warblers (Løvsanger). WE caught 14 species and in total 84 birds (83new and 1 recapture). Søren was the lucky guy. Ttoday he started with a Red-breasted Flycatcher (Lille Fluesnapper) and at the end of the morning he took another flycatcher out of the net and that one was causing some discussions whether it was a normal Pied Flycatcher (Broget Fluesnapper) or a Collared Flycatcher (Hvidhalset Fluesnapper). P2 was a little bit longer or almost as long as P5, but P2 was certainly not shorter than P5. The bird had a second wingbar (spots can be found on first winter Pied Flycatchers too, but this bird had more than a few). There is a possibility of hybrids between the two species and therefor we collected a sample for DNA analyses. For the time being we put the bird as a Pied Flycatcher in the database but perhaps other people can help us with deciding. 

Pied or Collared Flycatcher

Red-breasted Flycatcher