Ringmærkningen: Vi vågnede til en noget lunere morgen end i går, og fik allerede fra første runde en god fangst, og iblandt dem to udenlandske gæster - en Gærdesmutte (Eurasian Wren) fra Sverige og en Jernspurv (Dunnock) fra Belgien.

Det blev også en dejlig formiddag med en god mængde nye fugle, men også tid til, at kigge forbi fuglestationens vandhul, hvor der er kommet en masse små vandsalamandere og i hvert fald én grøn frø. Derudover var havens harer ekstra nærværende i dag, og løb mig nærmest over ende i deres leg.

Dagen bød også på en ordentlig vask af alle fugleposerne, som nu hænger til tørre i solen, så fuglene kan glæde sig til helt rene indpakninger i morgen.

Dagens sidste fugl - en sød Gærdesmutte (Eurasian Wren), som man virkelig forstår hvorfor den har tilnavnet flyvende frikadelle

Nyvaskede fugleposer til tørre i forårssolen.

Dagens ringmærkning og kontroller/ Today’s ringing and recaptures:

Gærdesmutte (Eurasian Wren): 10(2)

Jernspurv (Dunnock): 12(1)

Rødhals (European Robin): 10(2)

Solsort (Common Blackbird): 3(1)

Gransanger (Common Chiffchaff): 1(0)

Fuglekonge (Goldcrest): 9(0)

Rødtoppet Fuglekonge (Common Firecrest): 3(0)

Blåmejse (Eurasian Blue Tit): 9(2)

Musvit (Great Tit): 7(0)

Gråspurv (House Sparrow): 1(0)

Bogfinke (Eurasian Chaffinch): 2(0)

Grønsisken (Eurasian Siskin): 3(0)

Total: 70(8)

Trækket på Odden: This morning began like any other, with a bit of sleepiness in the cold air and the first birds taking their time to arrive. But soon enough, the flocks started to follow one after another (or even several at the same time) without giving us any breaks. At the second a flock would have disappeared behind the bushes towards the north-east, another one would appear from the south-west. In only an hour we had already counted several hundreds of Eiders (Ederfugl), and they hardly stopped arriving all morning long. We thus reached a total of 8 115 Eiders, passing the 8.000 mark just before ending this morning’s count. Other species, such as the wigeons (Pibeand) or the pintails (Spidsand), were not to be outdone, bringing today's total to 10.001 individuals across 41 different migratory species.

Haze and high altitudes are among the challenges of counting migration of birds, but also make the migration a beautiful spectacle. Above, Eiders fly on the edge of an almost invisible horizon, below, Wigeons fly in loose formations at high altitude. Photo: Ole Friis Larsen/GFU

In addition to these never ending  waves of Eiders, flying so low we could hear their wingbeats, we had to keep looking over our heads after the large flocks of White-fronted Geese (Blisgås). They were flying so high in the blue sky we would almost struggle to find them without the binoculars. Despite the lack of breaks because of the Eiders, and the onset of a stiff neck from looking for the geese, today was a truly perfect day to make the most of migration monitoring in such lovely weather.

Se alle dagens observationer ved Gedser Odde i DOFbasen.

Folk på stationen: Cyann Ménard, Mathilde Eiby, Sjoerd van Baal, Henrik Jørgensen, Ole Friis Larsen