After all those days with hardly birds this day made the week. Early in the morning we got the message that Louis had seen 4 nightjars when biking to the south point of Denmark. I thought maybe we can catch one too and opened the sparrowhawk nets. And when we went out for opening the other nets we chased one nightjar in one of the sparrowhawk nets. I have waited 50 years to have one in the hand. The bird (1k male) made us all very happy.

And the day was not over. We caught in total 207 birds (see table below), only three recaptures. 24 species of which were besides the Nightjar 3 new for the season: a Greater Spotted Woodpacker, a Goldcrest and two Chaffinches. 

A nice sighting was a White Stork that was soaring above our house.

I had expected many moths in my traps but they were evidently still not really flying at the station. But the light attracted a Great Silver Water Beetle (Stor Vandkær, see picture). In addition I have added a picture of the Nightjar (Natraven) and one of a Sedge Warbler (Sivsanger) and a Reed Warbler (Rørsanger).

One can truly say this was a good day, a very good day and it made us all happy.

At the station: Lars Ulrich Rasmussen, Robert Luttik, Joakim Matthiesen, Philip Elbek, Anne Ramskov Hermanns and Ole Friis Larsen