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Despite hard wind some birds were caught
Despite the hard wind (13 m/s) an attempt was made to catch birds with those nets that were not so exposed to the wind. I decided to open 107 meter net, which is enough for a standard session and started today at 05.30 and stopped at 11.00. As expected not many new birds were caught (23) and the Rødhals (Robins) were still not moved away (11 recaptures). At least one Rødtoppet fuglekonge was still in the garden (another one than 2 days ago).
After eleven o'clock Hans Lind and me did some maintenace. We removed some of the piles with cut branches.
Nice biotope for Gærdesmutte (Wren).
Todays catches and recaptures:
Species | Newly ringed | Recaptures |
Gærdesmutte/Wren | 2 | 1 |
Jernspurv/Dunnock | 4 | |
Rødhals/Robin | 8 | 11 |
Solsort/Blackbird | 1 | |
Vindrossel/Redwing | ||
Gransanger/Chiffchaff | 1 | |
Fuglekonge/Goldcrest | 4 | |
Rødtoppet fuglekonge/Firecrest | 1 | |
Blåmejse/Blue tit | 1 | |
Musvit/Great Tit | 1 | |
Bogfinke/Chaffinch | 1 | |
Total | 23 | 13 |
De gladeste hilsner
Robert
For meget vind!!!!
It is a pity, just too much wind and therefore no bird catching. Not good for the nets, they will blow into the vegetation. Tomorrow probably the same and the weather forecast for friday is also not very promising.
Used the day for some maintenance, cutting "brombær" bushes and clearing the garden from all the branches of the big cleaning this year. Still a lot to do so tomorrow everybody is welcome to help.
De gladeste hilsner
Robert
Has autum already started again?
Early morning there was less wind, but later there was a bit too much (13 m/s from the east). It felt like autumn and it looked like autumn.
Several nets had leaves in them, not so nice when you want to close the nets at the end of the session. In total 63 birds 28 Jernspurv (Dunnock) and 23 Rødhals (Robin). Most birds that arrived yesterday were gone again. Only Rødhals decided to stay the night which resulted in a large number of recaptures (particular of birds ringed yesterday). No new Rødtoppet fuglekonge (firecrest), only one recapture of a bird that is already for several days in the garden.
Today pictures of the two top species of today:
Robin/Rødhals
Dunnock/Jernspurv
Bird caught today:
Species | Newly ringed | Recaptures |
Gærdesmutte/Wren | 1 | |
Jernspurv/Dunnock | 28 | |
Rødhals/Robin | 23 | 19 |
Sangdrossel/Song trush | 3 | |
Vindrossel/Redwing | 1 | |
Gransanger/Chiffchaff | 1 | |
Fuglekonge/Goldcrest | 5 | |
Rødtoppet fuglekonge/Firecrest | 1 | |
Blåmejse/Blue tit | 1 | |
Musvit/Great Tit | 1 | |
Kvækerfinke/Brambling | 1 | |
Total | 63 | 22 |
De gladeste hilsner
Robert
Rødtoppet Fuglekonge, Rødtoppet Fuglekonge og flere Rødtoppet Fuglekonger
First, I have to start with saying “undskyld”. I have made a mistake yesterday. Some people pointed out that the treecreeper was a short-toed treecreeper, and they were completely right. It is a simple mistake, what we call in the Netherlands a Treecreeper is the one that you call the Korttået træløber. And the Danish Træløber is for me the Kortsnavelboomkruiper. Languages are so surprising.
Now about today. Maybe I should have named this day “robin, robin, robin” because that was the species that we caught the most. But we have a new day record for firecrests and that was the reason that I named this day after this beautiful species. In total 18 new birds ringed.
Hans Lind has helped me today because the first round started with 35 birds and normally the second round would have more birds, often about twice as much, and that would have been too much for one person. This was not the case but nevertheless we had in total 116 new birds and 10 recaptures.
I have made a figure of the firecrests caught at the Gedser Fuglestation since 2000 till today. You can see that in the first years of this century the numbers were really low. In 2001 not one Firecrest was caught. But the last four years it is 50 or more. It is evident that the population of firecrests is increasing in Denmark. Gedser Fuglestation is already ringing birds for many years with a highly standardized method and this method is particularly good for finding trends in populations over time. It has to be noted that in the first years of the century it was not so standardised as it is nowadays.
When I was looking on the internet what the birds were doing in Europe I noticed that in the Netherlands the Blackcaps have arrived and I was hoping that they had reached Gedser too. But that is not really the case. We had two Blackcaps (Munk) and also one of the other summer birds (the Gransanger/Chiffchaff) is only slowly starting to arrive. Today in total 4.
The photogallery consist today of three species, a Blackcap (Munk), a Firecrest (Rødtoppet Fuglekonge) and a beautiful male Brambling (Kvækerfinke).
Male Blackcap (Munk)
Male Firecrest (Rødtoppet Fuglekonge)
Male Brambling (Kvækerfinke)
Todays results (newly caught and recaptures):
Species | Newly ringed | Recaptures |
Gærdesmutte/Wren | 9 | |
Jernspurv/Dunnock | 14 | 1 |
Rødhals/Robin | 53 | 6 |
Munk/Blackcap | 2 | |
Solsort/Blackbird | 2 | |
Gransanger/Chiffchaff | 4 | |
Fuglekonge/Goldcrest | 2 | |
Rødtoppet fuglekonge/Firecrest | 18 | |
Musvit/Great Tit | 5 | 1 |
Bogfink/Chaffinch | 7 | |
Kvækerfinke/Brambling | 1 | |
Nordlig gråsisken/Mealy redpoll | 1 | |
Total | 116 | 10 |
A beautiful day, is it already summer?
Today it certainly was a very nice day. Out of the wind it was this afternoon even hot. Almost a summer day, but the temperature goes down again. What a pity. Why do I like to do this work, ringing birds and being two weeks from home? There are a number of reasons. First, I like birds very much (in principle nature), I do not mind to get up early every morning and it is always a surprise what will happen, not one day is the same.
Take this day, I had not expected that many new birds would arrive in the night, but yes there were certainly new birds today in the garden. And I caught a number of special birds too, a Treecreeper/Traelober (the second one of this year) and Black redstart/Husrødstjert (also the second one), a Hawfinch/Kernebider (which was the first one of the year). In addition, 5 new Firecrests/Rødtoppet Fuglekonge which brings the total of the year at 32. I total 92 new birds were ringed (mainly Rødhals and Jernspurv).
Korttået trælober (Short-toed treecreeper)
Husrødstjert (Black Redstart) female
Kernebider (Hawfich)
Mu daugthers are always saying what are they looking strict (austerly) and I think I have to agree. Out of my archive a picture that shows this even better.
Results of today:
Species | Newly ringed | Recaptures |
Gærdesmutte/Wren | 5 | |
Jernspurv/Dunnock | 29 | |
Rødhals/Robin | 34 | 7 |
Husrødstjert/Black redstart | 1 | |
Sangdrossel/Song thrush | 2 | |
Gransanger/Chiffchaff | 3 | |
Fuglekonge/Goldcrest | 1 | |
Rødtoppet fuglekonge/Firecrest | 5 | 3 |
Sortmejse/Coal tit | 1 | |
Blåmejse/Blue Tit | 2 | |
Musvit/Great Tit | 1 | 4 |
Korttået Træløber/Short-toed treecreeper | 1 | |
Bogfink/Chaffinch | 5 | |
Grønirisk/Greenfinch | 1 | |
Kernebider/Hawfinch | 1 | |
Total | 92 | 14 |
De gladeste hilsner
Robert
Easy day
The weather forecast for the day was good: no rain, sunny and wind approximately 7 m/s, Therefore, I decided to open all nets this morning (there was backup available in case of many birds). But help was not necessary. Almost no new birds did arrive overnight. So, it was an easy day. In total 37 new birds ringed. No special things have happened except that in the second round I found all of sudden three Coal tits (Sortmejse) very close together in the net. I like this species, it is such a nice tiny little bird. Less aggressive than some of the other tits, like for instance the Blue tit (Blåmejse).
There was some migration today: I saw a group of cranes going north and after closing the nets I saw a Long-tailed tit (Halemejse).
Only two pictures today:
A 2k Coal tit / Sortmejse
A female Goldcrest / Fuglekonge
Todays catches and recaptures:
Species | Newly ringed | Recaptures |
Gærdesmutte/Wren | 1 | |
Jernspurv/Dunnock | 6 | 1 |
Rødhals/Robin | 9 | 11 |
Solsort/Blackbird | 2 | |
Gransanger/Chiffchaff | 2 | |
Fuglekonge/Goldcrest | 3 | |
Rødtoppet fuglekonge/Firecrest | 3 | 3 |
Sortmejse/Coal tit | 3 | |
Blåmejse/Blue Tit | 1 | |
Musvit/Great Tit | 8 | 1 |
Bogfink/Chaffinch | 2 | |
Total | 37 | 19 |
De gladeste hilsner
Robert
Spring is there!
Hello I am Robert Luttik and am a Dutchman and my Danish is not good enough to write the blog in Danish, but I also will not do it Dutch.
The morning started with a bit wind (15m/s) but it went down to about 7 m/s. It was the whole day a blue sky. So, spring is finally there. But a nice sunny day also makes the nets more visible and together with the wind this resulted in less birds than the days before. In total there were 48 new birds ringed. There were two new species for the year, a White Wagtail (Hvid Vipstjert) and a House Sparrow (Gråspurv). This species could be considered as a rare species for the station (last year only one).
2K male Hvid Vipstjert
and adult female Gråspurv
Again today two new Firecrests (Rødtoppet Fuglekonge) and a new very colourful Nordic Bullfinch (Stor Dompap).
male Firecrest/ Rødtoppet Fuglekonge
finally Bullfinch/Stor Dompap
Since a number of days the results of the Gedser Fuglestation can also be found at the site www.trektellen.nl. This is a Dutch site but you can choose your own language. When you open the site, you will see something like this:
At the place where you see “Nederlands” there is a dropdown menu for languages. The Danish ringing locations can be found under “Andre Lande”.
Todays catches and recaptures:
Species |
Newly ringed |
Recaptures |
Hvid Vipstjert/white Wagtail |
1 |
|
Gærdesmutte/Wren |
4 |
1 |
Jernspurv/Dunnock |
16 |
2 |
Rødhals/Robin |
8 |
10 |
Solsort/Blackbird |
3 |
2 |
Sangdrossel/Song Thrush |
2 |
|
Vindrossel/Redwing |
1 |
1 |
Gransanger/Chiffchaff |
1 |
|
Rødtoppet fuglekonge/Firecrest |
2 |
2 |
Gråspurv/House Sparrow |
1 |
|
Bogfink/Chaffinch |
7 |
|
Kvækerfinke/Brambling |
1 |
|
Stor Dompap/Bullfinch |
1 |
|
Total |
48 |
18 |
De gladeste hilsner
Robert
Endnu en god forårsdag.
Vejret var ikke så flot som i går - det var skyet det meste af tiden, og vinden var lidt friskere fra en sydvestlig retning, lidt fugt i luften var der osse på nogle få minutter: Faktisk perfekt vejr til ringmærkning, hvor nettene ikke bliver belyst af solen.
Jeg var ude og hjælpe til i et par timer. Der var virkelig gang i jernspurvene, som prægede billedet i dag sammen med rødhals, musvit og bogfinke. Et dejligt gensyn med rødstjert, der har været på vinterophold i Afrika. En anden ny ringmærkningsart for året var en munk.
Rødstjert adult han
Her en munk han.
De rødtoppede fuglekonger nåede helt op på 10 i dag, så et par rigtig gode dage for dem.
Dagens ringmærkning/Ringing today:
Gærdesmutte/Wren 10
Jernspurv/Dunnock 42
Rødhals/Robin 23
Rødstjert/Common Redstart 1
Solsort/Blackbird 2
Sangdrossel/Song Thrush 3
Vindrossel/Redwing 1
Munk/Blackcap 1
Gransanger/Chiffchaf 3
Fuglekonge/Goldcrest 3
Rødtoppet fuglekonge/Firecrest 10
Blåmejse(Blue Tit 3
Musvit/Great Tit 22
Bogfinke/Chaffinch 18
Grønirisk/Greenfinch 2
Total: 144
Velkommen til "Finland" - De Tusind Søers Land
Hvorfor nu denne overskrift? Jo, regnvej i to omgange i går, især næsten skybrud i aftes, hvor der på et par timer kom 18 mm. Sammen med de 25 cm. sne, der er smeltet nu, er der nu vand overalt: På marker, i lavninger og på de stier, der forbinder nettene, så røjserne var gode at have på i dag!
De nordlige net måtte opgives i dag, jeg har aldrig før set så meget vand her!
Her ved Poststien var der store søer på marken. Det hvide i baggrunden er damp fra marken, som kommer, når lun luft blæser hen over den våde, kolde jord.
Selvom der kun var 4-6 grader ind til midt på eftermiddagen, føltes det pragtfuldt i solskinnet. Ved 16-tiden nåede temperaturen helt op på 12 grader, så vi ventede at se sommerfugle sværme sammen med bier og humlebier, men desværre nej!
Kl. 07.15 fik jeg en sms fra Robert: "First round 29 and 3 firecrest" (rødtoppet fuglekonge), så jeg var godt klar over, at det ville blive en god dag. Et par timer senere udbad han sig lidt hjælp, så jeg kørte straks derud, hvor han og Bo var i fuld gang med fuglene. Allerede nu var de oppe på 8 rødtoppede fuglekonger, og da mærkningen sluttede kl. 14, var han oppe på hele 11 af de små smukke væsener - - - vi var sikre på, at det var vores højeste antal mærkede af den art på én dag. Det var dog "kun" en tangering, idet vi også mærkede 11 stk. 23. marts 2017.
En fin rødtoppet fuglekonge/Firecrest
Vi havde rigtig travlt i formiddags med masser af fugle i garnene, og som jeg forudså i går, fik vi den første gransanger i år, også dompap var ny for 2018. Kvækerfinke/Brambling, en flot adult han af husrødstjert/Black Redstart og nogle mejser blev også registreret med ringnummer.
Husrødstjert, udfarvet han/adult Black Redstart
Vi havde stort set ikke tid til at kigge opefter, men fik alligevel obs'et en flok på 20 traner, som gjorde trækforsøg, men vendte om igen. En rød glente blev det også til, og edderbasserne havde travlt med at komme østpå.
Dagens ringmærkning/ringing today:
Gærdesmutte/Wren7
Jernspurv/Dunnock 12
Rødhals/Robin 27
Husrødstjert/Black Redstart 1
Solsort/Blackbird 5
Sangdrossel/Song Thrush 3
Vindrossel/Redwing 2
Gransanger/Chiffchaff 1
Fuglekonge/Goldcrest 8
Rødtoppet fuglekonge/Firecrest 11
BlåmejseBlue Tit 1
Musvit/Great Tit 23
Skovspurv/Tree Sparrow 1
Bogfinke/Chaffinch 26
Kvækerfinke/Brambling 1
Nordlig gråsisken/Common Redpoll 1
Stor Dompap/Bullfinch 1
Total 131 - 17 arter/species
Sneen forsvinder, omend langsomt
Nattens regn stilnede først af ved 7.30-tiden, og vinden var ret svag fra sydlige retninger, og derfor kunne Robert åbne nogle af nettene. Ikke noget frost, så trampestierne mellem nettene blev mere og mere mudrede. Temperaturen steg langsomt til 4-5 plusgrader om eftermiddagen, og aftenens kraftige regnvejr fik
Det blev nogenlunde den samme artsfordeling som de forrige dage, hvor netfangst var muligt at gennemføre, nemlig solsort, gærdesmutte, jernspurv og rødhals, men der var en del finker i haven, og hele 9 bogfinker kunne mærkes. Dagens fugl blev en gråsisken med HELGOLAND-ring.
Stor gråsisken/Redpoll med Helgoland-ring. Det bliver spændende at modtage ringmærkningsdata!
Dagens ringmærkning/ringing today:
Gærdesmutte/wren 4
Jernspurv/dunnock 1
Rødhals/robin 1
Solsort/blackbird 3
Bogfinke/chaffinch 9
Total: 18
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