Again much wind and later some rain. But we opened the nets at six o`clock and had almost as many birds as yesterday, 25 birds and 16 species. We opened at some time the low nets at the pond and that brought a nice bird, see below.

Ramon and me are not the only bird ringers at this moment at the station, we have two helpers which are very keen to learn the the birdes and how to handle them. Jón from the Faeröer islands and Gail from the UK. Today you will find below a little introduction of Gail. Jón is a few days away, had to perform with his Finish Rock band in the US, but will be back on sunday. I will then ask him to introduce himself to you, but now first Gail Stride:

I’m a british ecologist and in the past have worked predominantly on trees - so this is my opportunity to fill in a big hole in my knowledge! I had my first experience of mist netting in Borneo where I was collecting data for my PhD, and was able to tag along with some of the other scientists out there working on understory rainforest birds, and later in Spain and Sweden with Ramón. I’m very excited to be here at Gedser for the next few months and want to learn as much as possible! Today I ringed my first bird at Gedser - a beautiful tree pipit (Anthus trivialis)!

As mentioned by her we caugth a Skovpiber/Tree Pipit at the pond (see picture):

Catches and recaptures of today:

With kind regards Robert