After friday with very few birds, 8 newly ringed and 8 recaptured seem to be a great success. The wind changed it´s direction a bit and was blowing more from the North. As most of our nests are located in the southern part of the garden, and therefore covered by bushes growing in the northern part, we were able to open much more than yesterday. It presumably contributed to the amount of species caught today. Almost every round we brought some birds to the lab to be ringed or noted (if it was a recapture), so we decided to leave the nets open three hours longer than we had to. This decision was also backed up by observations of Linnets in the garden. We hoped to catch at least one, as Agata and I have never ringed one yet, however we were not lucky this time.
Anyway we are continously overjoyed with our stay in Gedser. The sun is shining gorgeously, trees' and bushes' buds are sprouting more and more every day so soon everything will be green, and as we have some free time to relax, we are enjoying summer-like weather.
The weather forecast warns us that in next days the wind will grow even stronger, but although we grieve that we might expect a day with all the nets closed, we are looking forward to seeing waves bigger than last time and the overal look of the Fuglestation in ´´bad´´ weather.

Blackberries seem to be the fastest ones in terms of growing leaves in the garden. Photo: Maciej Wozniak

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

Complete list of birds caught today (ringed/recaptured):
Jernspurv / Dunnock: 5/0
Rødhals / Robin: 0/4
Solsort / Blackbird: 0/2
Sangdrossel / Song Thrush: 1/0
Blåmejse / Blue Tit: 0/2
Bogfinke / Chaffinch: 1/0
Gulspurv / Yellowhammer: 1/0

Total: 8/8

P.S.: Yesterday's info about the sighting of a bee-eater was just a prima aprilis joke - the photo was taken by me in Poland in August 2021. The rest of the blog post is true :)