A sunny day with Little Ringed Plover and more Blackcaps

Morning observations:

Henrik and I started the morning observation at the autumn spot. After about an hour we moved to the spring migration spot, because most birds were migrating north, so we could see them better.
unfortunately we didn’t see that many ducks as we where hoping. But it was still a good day. We saw a Little ringed plover “Lille præstekrave” which was really nice!

Today’s observations can be seen here.

After the morning observation I went to Hvidbjerg Strand. I was looking for dead birds to collect for Levi’s project. I found three Guillemot “Lomvie” so I brought them with me.

The ringing:

Today I was joined by Rasmus in the ringing. He arrived yesterday evening and has received his X-license in February. It was his first day ringing passerines. Luckily, we had a good day with a good number of birds, enough that there were some to practice but not too many so there was time to show things. After practicing taking out birds of the net and holding them in different grips, Rasmus also got his first birds to ring, four Blackbirds “Solsort” and a Robin “Rødhals”. I was again surprised by the Blackcaps “Munk”, because after the first one yesterday, we had two more today, they have arrived, and we will get them in the nets regularly from now on. It was a nice sunny day with very low wind, and we had the nets open for a bit more than two more hours after standard time.

Bullfinch "Dompap". Picture: Rasmus Tranberg

In the afternoon, both Rasmus and Joseph went on walks in the area. Joseph was in the bog and found 17 Common toads “Skrubtudse” near a pond, some of them were mating.

Mating Common toads “Skrubtudse”. Picture: Joseph Stephan

He also took a nice picture of a Water beetle, which is probably the Great Silver Water Beetle “Stor vandkær”.

Water beetle, probably the Great Silver Water Beetle “Stor vandkær”. Picture: Joseph Stephan

In the evening Kim arrived to do some preparations for putting up the fence for the Little Terns “Dværgterne” tomorrow, but he was missing one tool, so in the end he had to leave to Fanø again and will be back tomorrow morning.

People: Henrik Böhmer, Joseph Stephan, Marit Nillissen, Rasmus Tranberg, Hanelie Sidhu and Kim