The ringing/ringmærkningen: Today for our standard ringing session we had five ringers, with Theo joining us for his first morning at Gedser – welcome Theo!

From Theo: "Hi everyone, I'm Théophile, a French student currently doing a Master's degree in Mountain Ecology in Chambéry. I've been ringing for a long time, starting with my father when I was a little boy, and I've just got my French ringing licence. I've ring in many places in France, from Corsica to Brittany, but not so much in other countries except a little in Sweden, on Gotland, where I worked with Great tits and Coloured flycatchers. It's a great pleasure for me to be here! 

I will stay until the end of October at least, and I hope that I will have the chance to catch some crazy birds, like a Barred warbler, Great Grey Shrike or even a Pallas' Leaf Warbler!"

Although today felt a little slow, we still captured a decent number of birds…however, most of these birds were Robins (Rødhals) or Goldcrest (Fuglekonge) that had not managed to escape our nets a second time!

We caught 38 Fuglekonge, of which 22 were recaptures. It’s safe to say that after a few good days that have started to slow down, we are beginning to hope for a weather change.

Although the Fuglekonge are still lovely to see. Vagn recently told me the story of why the Fuglekonge is named the king of birds: he won the competition of who should be king by hitching a ride on the back of an eagle, before jumping off and flying higher than anyone else. A cute story for a cute bird!

After standard time, we left the Sparrowhawk (Spurvehøg) nets and a couple of nets for Siskin (Grønsisken) open, using sound to draw the Grønsisken in. In the end, 22 Grønsisken were caught, including one exciting individual!

og her har vi så den længe ventede gæst: en udenlandsk mærket Grønsisken fra Lithuania (Litauen)
Som altid bliver det spændende at høre om, hvor den stammer fra og hvornår den blev ringmærket.
Ringen var noget slidt, så det kunne tyde på, at det måske var endda noget tid siden.

DAGENS FANGST:

Trækket på Odden: Endnu en hektisk dag med østenvind og mange andefugle i trækket. Selv om der kom lidt færre fugle, gav det stadig travlhed med tællingen og samtidig træning i at skelne mellem Pibeænder (Mareca penelope), Spidsænder (Anas acuta), Skeænder (Spatula clypaeta) og Krikænder (Anas crecca) i de blandede flokke, der var mange af. Som fuglestation skal vi både foretage tællinger og undervise nye folk i at lave den slags tællinger.

Fredag måtte vi søge læ for den lidt hårde østenvind, og det tvang os til at stå på et sted, hvor vi kun kunne se, tælle og identificere de fleste fugle over havet i ganske kort tid.

Det blev til lidt under 7.000 fugle på træk, fordelt på 28 arter, idet vi på forhånd valgte trækket af småfugle fra for at koncentrere os om de vigtigste fugle i havtrækket, nemlig de almindelige arter, der kommer så mange af, at vi kan bruge dem til at lave sammenlignelige statistikker over.

Se alle dagens observationer fra Gedser Odde i DOFbasen.

Moths: Not so many moths today, I will show a picture of Ennomos autumnaria "Stor tandmåler", a nice autumn species.

Ennomos autumnaria "Stor tandmåler"

Folk på stationen: Lise Mastrup, Hanelie Sidhu, Grace Marsh, Hans Lind, Vagn Lind, Théophile Fontaine, Ole Friis Larsen