Despite the perfect conditions this morning, there were surprisingly few birds in the garden. Even in the first round, usually the busiest, we got less than ten birds. A nice diversity of species for the number though. We decided to close sooner after standard time than usual as it gets a bit demoralising walking around the garden and finding the nets almost completely empty time after time! Ramón glimpsed the great grey shrike again, and found gristly evidence of its hunting success, which it must have lost when it flew into and out of a net again this morning...He took a picture too gruesome to post here but needless to say they are fierce predators!

We had another nice visit from Line who stopped for a chat, and in the afternoon after we closed the nets I chopped some wood (we use the wood burner in the house as our only source of heat) and went for a lovely walk to get supplies from the shop in Gedser. 

We also used a big chunk of time to get through the majority of the datasheets left that we had to check through. Helped a lot by a cheeky bit of very nice Scottish whisky!

It seems very difficult to predict which days will bring birds, but hopefully we’ll get a few more tomorrow.

Cheers!

Gail