Ringmærkningen: Overcome with optimism, I guessed 136 birds for this morning. But, even though the first two rounds weren't too bad, with 34 birds in total, I quickly realised that reaching this number would be very difficult, with only three birds in the third round. The following rounds brought a few more birds, but nowhere near enough to reach 100. Nevertheless, we were overwhelmed by success in completing a difficult task: reaching the same number as yesterday, 61! The ratio is slightly different anyway, with seven more birds ringed. The apple garden net remains one of the best, especially for Blackcaps (Munk).

The African migrants are coming, but still in low numbers: two Willow warblers (Løvsanger) and two Common redstarts (Rødstjert) were ringed this morning. We are waiting for bigger numbers The little surprise of the day was the Eurasian treecreeper (Træløber) that Mathilde added to her ringing list. I'm always surprised when people say that this species is common here, when in France we catch many more Short-toed Treecreepers (KorttåetTræløber).

Impossible to get bored by the beauty of this bird ! Foto : Théophile Fontaine

The Lesser whitethroat (Gærdesanger) that we ringed yesterday is still in the garden, foraging in the trees in front of the house and sometimes singing while we were eating lunch.
The weather looks good for tomorrow. The wind will stay the same, just a bit too strong, but the good thing is that it will be a bit cloudier, so the nets will be less visible!

Trækket på Odden: The cloudless sky of this morning gave us a really great sunrise, once again. Despite the wind - which, to be honest, was a bit chilly at times - we decided to move to a different spot for today’s count, since we were tired of the building blocking our view from behind. From up there, we counted 1205 individuals of 39 different species, both migrating or just passing by. Among the migrating species, the total number of birds was really boosted by a few large flocks of Eiders (Ederfugl), Barnacle geese (Bramgås), and Cormorants (Skarv). I was also really happy to spot some Sand Martins (Digesvale), which I hadn't seen yet this year.

One of the three Barnacle geese (Bramgås) that also flew over the garden in the early morning. Foto : Théophile Fontaine

As for the non-migratory species, the field was once again occupied by the usuals Skylarks(Sanglærke) and White Wagtails (Hvid vipstjert), joined today by a Wheatear (Stenpikker) as well as a Yellow Wagtail (Gul vipstjert). We also spotted several individuals of both Grey and Common Seals (Gråsæl & Spættet sæl), which we hadn’t seen lately because of the waves caused by the strong wind.

Se alle dagens observationer ved Gedser Odde i DOFbasen.

A warm afternoon : As the sun shone bright all day long, we could all enjoy a nice outside lunch, followed (for some of us) by a warming nap on the grass or on the benches. Since I (Cyann) absolutely refused to step out of the sun and be stuck inside on such a beautiful day, I decided to make the most of it by taking my laptop outside to work there all afternoon. Fingers crossed, hopefully we all avoided getting sunburned... We obviously ate dinner outside once again, because who knows for how long we can keep on doing that? And we are glad we did, as we got the cutest visit from a curious weasel, really surprised to meet five people looking at it with a lot of awe in the eyes.

Folk på stationen: Cyann Ménard, Mathilde Sif Eiby, Sjoerd van Baal, Théophile Fontaine, Olga Fernandez Enriquez