Ringmærkningen: Nettene var oppe klokken 6 i håb om at få endnu en skovsneppe.

Der var dog først en fugl i nettet ved 10 tiden - en musvit!

Benny kom forbi med morgenbrød, da han skulle have nye ringe, og alle 4 fugle blev fanget mens han var der. Den ene musvit var allerede ringmærket, den var min egen fra september 2025.

Der kom mere og mere sol så nettene blev mere og mere synlige så klokken 12 lukkede jeg for dagen.

Dagens ringmærkning og kontrol/Todays ringing and recapture:

Musvit/Great tit 3(1)

Total 3(1)

Trækket på Odden: Another morning with lovely weather and south-west coming wind allowing our small group of four people to stand outside to count the birds. Despite these great conditions, we counted around half less individuals than yesterday (1431 vs 2516) from almost as many species (40 vs 42). The species were however different from yesterday. We observed fewer migrating raptors and more passerines species, some of them for the first time of the season, such as the Meadow Pipit (Anthus pratensis), Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs), Greenfinch (Chloris chloris), and Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus). A male Stonechat (Saxicola rubicola) was even spotted perched on the bushes !

In addition to these new species for the season, we got the chance to have some really great observations all morning long. Three Eurasian Curlew (Numenius arquata) flew just above our heads, and even treated us to their magnificent flute-like song, ‘kou (r)-li’, before heading off towards the north-east. Later on, a young White-tailed eagle followed the same path. Because of its closeness, we have been able to notice that it was a ringed bird. We are currently waiting for more information about this bird’s life-history from Copenhagen Bird Ringing Centre.

A young White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla, Havørn) came so close that we later could read the ring code on the pictures. I seemed to be a German eagle. We will bring the details, when we get them. Photo: Ole Friis Larsen/GFU

Not long before the end of the standard 5 hours of migration count, a Sandwich tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis) was spotted offshore heading north. This is a very early sighting for this species at Gedser Odde, which usually arrives on the Danish coast from mid-March onwards. However, according to the sighting recorded on DOFbasen, some individuals have been seen the previous years around mid-February, and even beginning of January the years before 2020.

Se alle dagens observationer ved Gedser Odde i DOFbasen.

Folk på stationen: Cyann Ménard, Henrik Jørgensen, Ole Friis Larsen, Meds Elley, Gert Juul Jeppesen.