Today we did everything as normal, but there were almost no birds in the garden. In total we only caught 25 birds, of which 9 were recaptures.

Rødhals (Robin) 1 (1), Solsort (Blackbird) - (4), Gærdesanger (Lesser Whitethroat) 5 (3), Tornsanger (Common Whitethroat) - (1), Munk (Blackcap) 5 (-), Gransanger (Chiffchaff) 1 (-) and Løvsanger (Willow Warbler) 4 (-).

Maybe it was good that we had so few birds because when we came to the place where we do the ringing we did not have light. And some of the things are not going well with bad light. For instance, aging and assessing the fat degree. Hopefully we can figure out what is wrong.

Yesterday I caught a little moth and was not sure which species it was. It belonged to the difficult group of he Pugs ( Dværgmålere) and it was either the Markbynkedværgmåler or the Malurtdværgmåler. In Naturbasen you can put this species in with a reference to both and I added a text that I thougth it was Malurtdværgmåler. And rather quick one of the expert did agree with me. Nice that Naturbasen works like this. Below you will find a picture of the moth. The colour is not completely right because I have made the picture inside the house.

The second species below is a Zigzagspinder (Pebble Prominent) a very nice medium sized Moth which I found this morning in the trap. In Dutch it is called kameeltje (little camel) which is a reference to the caterpillar.

Hopefully we will catch more birds tomorrow

With kind regards Henrik Jørgensen and Robert Luttik