The ringing:

The morning was a bit windy and cold again. It brought us more recaps than new ringed birds, but some nice species as Red-backed Shrike “Rødrygget Tornskade” and the first first calendar year bird of the season, that flew into the net: A Starling “Stær”.

1k Starling "Stær"

 

 

A new species for Denmark:

After ringing, Gert came to the station. Soon, he got a notification on bird alarm, that a Pygmy Cormorant “Dværgskarv” was seen at Lystrup. It is a new species for Denmark and after a short time, Gert decided, we should see it. When Gert, Jens and I arrived at Lystrup, there were already many birders and I was a very cooperative bird, it was sitting on top of a dead tree all the time, very well visible for all.

Pygmy Cormorant "Dværgskarv"

The moth:

There were quite some moth species in the traps today, many I find every morning so it is usually easy to identify them. One species, that is in the traps regularly and usually very easy to identify is Oligia strigilis “Hundegræsugle”.  Today I found a very dark moth of which I was wondering, if it was a new species for me, but after consulting the identification apps, books and Gert, I found out, that it was just Oligia stigilis “Hundegræsugle”. I will show a picture of how I am used to it and this dark one today, to show, how much variation there can be in some species.

Today´s very dark Oligia strigilis.

 

Oligia strigilis how I am used to it.

 

I will also put a picture of Aspilapteryx tringipennella in this blog, Robert has already used a picture of it in one of the previous blogs, but I think, it is quite nice to see it sitting on my thumb, to really see how small this micro moth is.

Aspilapteryx tringipennella

 

Even though, identification with the help of apps still works even for this size. They don´t need to stay a mystery, it is also worth looking at them!

It was quite a long day and I am very tired, so tomorrow, this blog will be updated with the list of the moth species of the day.

 

People: Jasper Mosman, Hanelie Sidhu, Jens Friis-Walsted, Gert Jeppesen