Ringing: 

After yesterday, which was the day with the lowest number of birds for our period here, we were happy to have something to do again today, we caught 26 new birds and did not have any recaps. So there was some migration happening. It was mostly Willow Warblers “Løvsanger” that arrived at Gedser Odde, 19 of our 26 birds. Else a Red-backed Shrike “Rødrygget Tornskade” as well as the first Reed Warbler “Rørsanger” and the first Marsh Warbler “Kærsanger” for the season at Gedser Fuglestation were nice surprises.

Red backed Shrike male/ Rødrygget Tornskade han

Do you recognise which is the Reed Warbler "Rørsanger" and which the Marsh Warbler "Kærsanger"? While we were checking the Wing formula and looking at several characters as rump, claws, bill and form of the head, we found out later, that the apps we are using for the moths can solve it in about a second. That is quite amazing. We will solve the riddle in tomorrows blog.

Trækket på Odden: Det bliver kun lige til et par billeder i dag fra mogenens trækobs.

Her en af de mange Stenpikkere (Oenanthe oenanthe) der raster i området omkring Odden. Foto: Oliver Bøgh Jensen 

En Mursejler (Apus apus) lå og fouragerede et stykke tid over obspladsen inden den trak videre. De er meget svære at fotografere grundet deres hurtige og strømlinede flugt; lyset var dertil også noget vanskeligt. Foto: Oliver Bøgh Jensen

 At the station: Robert Luttik, Ella Croyle, Marith Mol, Oliver Bøgh Jensen, Hanelie Sidhu and Tina Elley, Mads Elley, Anne-Marie Raith, Jan C. van Dijk and Gert Jeppesen doing preparing for the open house tomorrow.

Moths

Today a lot of moth species were in and around the traps. In total 24 species (see Table).

I have chosen to show you the Viper's Bugloss Moth (Slangehovedmøl) because it has a different shape as most of the other moths.