After the continous series of succesful days, it seems that the weather finally interrupted the occurence of birds in nets. The wind is blowing harder than yesterday (reaching the speed of up to almost 15m/s) in direction that does not favor the spring migration of birds. Moreover, having the safety of ornithofauna in our minds, we did not open a lot of nets today. If it wasn't for one Reed Bunting without any ring, that flew into the net today, we would have caught only 4 recaptures.
Just after the standarized ringing hours me and Agata went to the shore in hope of seeing some interesting species above the sea. We sighted common scoters, long-tailed ducks, a lot of common eiders, some cormorants, red-breasted mergansers and few swans (we were looking very carefully if some of them were banded, so we could read the numbers and report them, but did not see any rings on their legs). We also enjoyed just watching the sea, as we really seldom have an occasion to admire such high waves.
But the peak moment of the day was yet to come. On our way back to the station we spotted some colorful dot on a power line nearby and did not hesitate to check with telescopes what was that. It seems that another day brought us a great gift - individual of species that are incredibly hard to see here, especially at that time of the year!

Digiscoped photo of a bird that we thought is impossible to see on the 1st of April in Denmark. Photo: Maciej Wozniak

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

Complete list of birds caught today (ringed/recaptured):
Rødhals / Robin: 0/3
Solsort / Blackbird: 0/1
Rørspurv / Reed Bunting: 1/0

Total: 1/4