Today saw the arrival of some really nice birds. The wind had dropped which meant an influx of birds into the garden and we caught so many during the first few rounds of the day that Hans and Benny had to come to the rescue and help with the extractions while Ramón and Henrik ringed as fast as they could so that the birds could get back to fattening themselves up in the garden for their migration. Along with the usual robins, blackcaps, and chiff-chaffs we caught a handful of chaffinches, a smattering of gold- and fire-crests, a few more reed buntings, a couple of song thrushes and some sparrow hawks (including a particularly big female). The icing on the cake though was during the last round of the day - a short-toed treecreeper! Very cute, very cool.

We also saw some cranes flying overhead on their migration to the south, as well as barnacle geese and some honey buzzards. Hans brought us a wasp spider from his garden - it has really incredible markings and builds a spiral orb web. Apparently it only arrived in Denmark a couple of decades ago, slowly spreading north from the south of Europe.

We opened the nets again later in the afternoon in the hope of enticing in another yellow-browed warbler by playing its song loud across the garden, but to no avail. Maybe tomorrow!

Jón sadly had to depart for reality this afternoon so tomorrow we are down to three for while. Good thing I am getting faster at extracting birds from the nets!

Hope you all managed to get out and see some wildlife today. The birds from the morning are listed below for your enjoyment.

All the best!

Gail