Today was just our second day in Gedser, and it already exceeded our expectations! We had caught a lot of birds (including the first yellowhammer that I ringed), but also managed to go to the shore with telescope to watch some sea birds. We saw hundreds of common eiders, that are rare for Poland and hard to see there, as well as few red-breasted mergansers, great cormorants, common mergansers, an oystercatcher and a scoter - it's not that easy to spot these species in one place where we are from! Also, today was the day when Agata ringed her firs birds: chaffinch, robin and dunnock. Although the whole day was very exciting, today's highlight was the king eider, that we were able to spot from the shore thanks to Sir Preben Berg, who called Henrik and told him that it is coming our way, what we are so so grateful for! Seeing a Turkan, as we call them in Poland, is extremely hard there, so we still cannot believe our luck, especially that we just begun our adventure in Denmark. Now we are even more excited about what next days are going to bring us and really looking forward to them.

King eider in common eider's flock. Photo: Agata Balicka

People at the station: Agata Balicka, Maciej Wozniak, Henrik Jørgensen

Complete list of birds caught today (ringed/recaptured):
Gærdesmutte / Wren: 2/1
Jernspurv / Dunnock: 10/0
Rødhals / Robin: 4/4
Solsort / Blackbird: 3/1
Sangdrossel / Song Thrush: 1/0
Gransanger / Chiffchaff: 5/0
Fuglekonge / Goldcrest: 9/0
Rødtoppet Fuglekonge / Firecrest: 1/0
Bogfinke / Chaffinch: 1/0
Dompap / Bullfinch: 0/1
Gulspurv / Yellowhammer: 1/0