A spotted Blackbird

The ringing:

Today Thomas and Lise joined me in the ringing. There were not many birds but getting more 1Ks was a pleasure. Besides 1K Crested Tits “Topmejse” and Tree Sparrows “Skovspurv” we had a 1K Blackbird “Solsort”. As many birds before their first moult, Blackbirds “Solsort” have spotted body and wing feathers. They are quite pretty and cute in that plumage, I will show you a picture.

Blackbird "Solsort" 1K. Picture: Thomas Kristensen

In the afternoon, Emma and I exchanged a broken net in the station garden. Lise in the meantime cut some bushes that were growing into the netlines. To see if we had done our work well, we had the new net open for a very short time. It seemed like the net worked very well, because a 1K Crested Tit “Topmejse” flew in immediately.

The moths:

I had 11 different moths species today, I got a very pretty new one, Oecophpra bractella.

Oecophpra bractella. Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

At the station: Joseph Stephan, Emma Gray, Thomas Kristensen, Lise Manstrup, Hanelie Sidhu, Marit Nillissen and her mom