First, I have to start with saying “undskyld”. I have made a mistake yesterday. Some people pointed out that the treecreeper was a short-toed treecreeper, and they were completely right. It is a simple mistake, what we call in the Netherlands a Treecreeper is the one that you call the Korttået træløber. And the Danish Træløber is for me the Kortsnavelboomkruiper. Languages are so surprising.

Now about today. Maybe I should have named this day “robin, robin, robin” because that was the species that we caught the most. But we have a new day record for firecrests and that was the reason that I named this day after this beautiful species. In total 18 new birds ringed.

Hans Lind has helped me today because the first round started with 35 birds and normally the second round would have more birds, often about twice as much, and that would have been too much for one person. This was not the case but nevertheless we had in total 116 new birds and 10 recaptures.

I have made a figure of the firecrests caught at the Gedser Fuglestation since 2000 till today. You can see that in the first years of this century the numbers were really low. In 2001 not one Firecrest was caught. But the last four years it is 50 or more. It is evident that the population of firecrests is increasing in Denmark. Gedser Fuglestation is already ringing birds for many years with a highly standardized method and this method is particularly good for finding trends in populations over time. It has to be noted that in the first years of the century it was not so standardised as it is nowadays.

When I was looking on the internet what the birds were doing in Europe I noticed that in the Netherlands the Blackcaps have arrived and I was hoping that they had reached Gedser too. But that is not really the case. We had two Blackcaps (Munk) and also one of the other summer birds (the Gransanger/Chiffchaff) is only slowly starting to arrive. Today in total 4.

The photogallery consist today of three species, a Blackcap (Munk), a Firecrest (Rødtoppet Fuglekonge) and a beautiful male Brambling (Kvækerfinke).

 Male Blackcap (Munk)

 Male Firecrest (Rødtoppet Fuglekonge)

Male Brambling (Kvækerfinke)

 Todays results (newly caught and recaptures):