The ringing:

After yesterday, it looked like warm summer weather had arrived at Gedser, this morning started very cold and windy.

Light at the tip this early morning

Later in the morning, the wind slowed a bit down and it did not feel so cold any more. But it was not a good day for birds in the nets. That gave Jens, Karsten an me a lot of time to look for the Rose-coloured Starling “Rosenstær”, that had been seen this morning! Unfortunately, we did not have success. After two new birds in the nets and three recaptures as well as a few cut branches, we closed the nets after the five standard hours.

The stars of today, out two new birds: Chaffinch "Bogfinke"...

... and Chiffchaff "Gransanger"

After ringing, we went to Gerts place where some Blue Tit "Blåmejse" nestboxes are occupied and I got some more birds to ring, there were 11 Blue Tit "Blåmejse" chicks in two nestboxes.

The moths:

The windy night and light on just in one of the traps did not give many moths. I will go after finishing the blog to pug in the second trap again.

But it was some nice moth in the trap and unless yesterday, they were not so flighty, which made it way easier to take pictures. My favourite was definitely Macrothylaci rubi “Brombærspinder”. It carries this name, as one of the feeding plants of their caterpillars is the blackberry. This is a female, the male is more reddish and its antennae are bigger.

Macrothylacia rubi "Brombørspinder"

People: Jasper Mosman, Gert Jeppesen, Hans Lind, Hanelie Sidhu, Jens Friis-Walsted and Karsten