How to spot a murre and catch a spotted flycatcher

Observationer

Todays morning observation was easy going. We woke up to 17 degrees, 5 m/s winds coming from the south west and a low tide in the observation area. The bird of the day was a common murre (lomvie), which blessed us with its presence in the last interval of the standard time. It landed in the water and swam around a bit before dissapearing once again. We caught it in its winter plumage, and it was a new species for me (Gustav). We also had a quick shower, where we had to cover our scopes, put our bags in shelter of the rain in the bunker and wait it out. 15 minutes later, we were back, glued to our scopes once again. Due to the clouds, the visibility wasn't great for the first 30 minutes, making it hard to distinguish between the smaller wading birds. 

-GBJ

- Lomvie in its winter plumage (sorry for the poor picture...)

Ringmærkninger

Even though the weather forecast was not the best for this morning, we had quite a successful ringing session never the less!
Starting with a strong mix of our regular visitors, black caps( munk), robins( rødhals), donnucks ( jernspurv) and redchads ( rødstjerter). And finishing with an interesting collection of a wren (gærdesmutte), a common whitethroat (tornsanger) and loads of coal tits,(sortmejser) who are always fun! As we had a lot of individuals we took our time to teach and learn about how to tell males from females and first year individuals.
My personal bird of the day was a spectacular spotted flycatcher (grå fluesnapper)!

-LK

Folk på stationen: Sverre Dahl Porsgaard, Mathilde Lundt Larsen, Lua Koplin, Lise Mastrup, Gustav Brandt Jelert