Grasshopperwarbler in the late morning

Observations:

Weather at 5.45: NW5, 6°C, 5/8, 30km visibility

Today, the migration of red-throated loons [rødstrubet lom] & common scoters [sortand]  was much slower than yesterday. But we managed to count a large number of common terns / arctic terns [fjordterne/havterne] migrating north – 590!
David and I also spotted a total of four adult arctic skuas [alm. kjove]: two pale morphs and two dark morphs. (That was my first pale morph arctic skua, so I was absolutely delighted.)

Todays observations can be seen here. 


Menu of the drawing day : some woodpeckers ! Picture by Clara 

Ringing:

This morning started very slow. In the first round we caught two Blackbirds “Solsort”. But it improved: Later, we got some Willow Warblers “Løvsanger”, a Redstart “Rødstjert”, a Brambling “Kvækerfinke”, a Pied Flycatcher “Broget Fluesnapper”.

Brambling "Kvækerfinke". Picture by Hanelie.

Pied Flycatcher “Broget Fluesnapper”. Picture by Robert.

But the big surprise of the day was the Grasshopperwarbler “Græshoppersanger”. You hardly ever see it in the field, it is just calling very dominant and characteristic, but sometimes a lucky ringer gets it in the nets and today, I was the lucky one!

Grasshopperwarbler "Græshoppersanger". Picture by David.

Moths of the day:

This night were evidently less moth flying around. We did not catch many and had only 7 different moth species. Yesterday afternoon we caught a very small day active moth: the Speckled grass-miner (no Danish name). Those small ones are difficult to make pictures of. First because they are tiny and secondly they are not sitting still. So the apps that we use are sometimes not certain about the outcome and then we have to take the books and have to study whether it is a certain species (we never kill the moths to make our life easier). And today we found another very small day active moth (5 to 6 mm): the Neat Cosmet (relatively rare and also no Danish name). See picture below.

Neat Cosmet (Mompha divisella)

In the afternoon, Morten arrived at the station, he will take blood samples of Long-distance migrants this week. These will be tested for the Vest-Nile-Virus. So we are hoping to catch many the following days.

At the station: Morten Jenrich Hansen, David Manstrup, Clara Delahaye, Jorn de Jong, Robert Luttik, Hanelie Sidhu.