Gedser Fuglestation - 11 September 2015

It was very windy by the end of the day yesterday, and by 5am this morning it was still really blowy. Thankfully the ringing site has plenty of well sheltered areas. We dropped the nets knowing that rain was forecast for later on so kept a close eye on the weather throughout the morning.

It wasn't very busy at all and by the time we felt the first drops of rain and closed at 10am we had only processed 17 new and 16 recaptured birds. Best ringed birds were a Spotted Flycatcher (Grå fluesnapper) and Tree Pipit (Skovpiber).

1k Tree Pipit

During the morning a Hobby, Kestrel and Raven were seen interacting about the nets but evaded capture. A few Siskin, Swallow and Chaffinch were seen overhead.

During a brief seawatch for just over an hour from 12.15 produced a couple of juvenile Long-tailed Skuas, plus a couple of Little Gulls, with c250 Common Scoters, with a few Eider, all heading west.

Late afternoon during making a necessary shop visit, we did a short tour around Gedser, picking up a flock of c40 Greylags, a single Wheatear and a Merlin resting on a hay bale outside the ringing station.

 1k Merlin

Totals: 17 (16)

Tree Pipit - 1

Robin - 6 (3)

Redstart-2

Blackbird - 0 (1)

Lesser Whitethroat - 1

Whitethroat - 1 (1)
Garden Warbler - 0 (1)

Blackcap - 3 (3)

Chiffchaff - 1 (5)
Spotted Flycatcher - 1
Blue Tit - 1

Great Tit - 0 ( 2)