Ringmærkningen: Another beautiful sky this morning, just with a less beautiful number of birds. However I started the ringing with a nice Song Thrush (Sangdrossel), and ended it with a very shiny Starling (Stær) - our first male Starling of the season, with a blue bill base instead of pink! I forgot to take a picture, but here's one of a lovely male Blackcap (Munk) from today:

In spring, all the male Blackcaps have a black cap, and the females reddish-brown. Picture by Mathilde Sif Eiby / GFU

Today's numbers:

Trækket på Odden : Same amount of birds as yesterday (so really quiet), but with more sunshine and some nice company !

Se alle dagens observationer ved Gedser Odde i DOFbasen.

Other stuff and appreciation: Bo came by today for his last human vs AI sound detection of the spring, Mads is still working hard, testing out where the new lawnmower will go, aaaand where it will get stuck, while Sjoerd is stumbling upon Grey Seals (Gråsæler) on the beach. 

Also a lot of people are coming and going these days. Sjoerd came back Tuesday, Vagn left yesterday, Joachim arrived yesterday, Olga left today, Hans also had his last day for now today, and I (Mathilde) am leaving tomorrow - so this is sadly my last blog :( 

I've learned so much in my almost two months here, and I'll definitely be back. I've had the chance to learn from 6 very different head-ringers, and ring with other awesome trainees too. I even got a week at migration-counting, that offered me a different and super useful perspective, and I thouroughly enjoyed (or maybe it was the company)! So a huge thank you to all the people I've met here, and hope to see you again somewhere - even just on a blog :)

Grey Seal and Dutch ship. Picture by Mathilde Sif Eiby / GFU

Folk på stationen: Cyann Ménard, Mathilde Sif Eiby, Sjoerd van Baal, Olga Fernandez Enriquez, Hans Lind, Joachim Dybbroe. Praktikanten Agnes, Mads Elley, Bo Kayser