Obviously today the wind was very strong, even stronger than yesterday, but it changed it's direction luckily. Some of the nets looked well enough to keep them open until the end of standard ringing hours. It allowed us to catch some birds. Not many of them of course, but at least we got some interesting species! We caught a female Reed Bunting, what was really nice as it was only the second one we saw in hand this year. This one was ringed by Agata, so she can also add it to her ´´list´´ of ringed species. The other bird that we were excited about was a Linnet, and it was the first we held in our hands not only this year but ever. ´´Unfortunately´´ it was already ringed in the past, so none of us can boast about banding it. It gave us some interesting information instead - it was ringed and identified as 2k+ in 2020, so it looks that it is at least fourth year of it's life.
Some hours after we finished our ringing-related work, we met another visitor:  Andrea, who came to Denmark from Australia (that's quite far from here, isn't it?). She is going to stay in Gedser for a short while and help us with bird banding. So there is another advantage of our stay here - we really do have an incredible opportunity to practice and improve our english speaking (and writing, as you can see) skills.

Male Linnet - we waited long to finally catch it. Photo: Agata Balicka

Female Reed Bunting - another picture next to the still blooming Mirabelle Plum. Photo: Agata Balicka