fredag den 31. maj 2013

Normal day with Pied Flycatchers.


Today has been a normal day with usual species and captures in the average. The highlight specie has been the Pied Flycatcher with 4 ringed birds and quite active at garden. Another bird that has been showing at garden it was the Greenish warbler that has been singing long time this morning.

Reed Warbler: 1
Icterine Warbler: 2
Lesser Whitethroat: 2
Garden warbler: 2
Willow Warbler: 5
Pied Flycatcher: 4
Great Tit: 1
Common Rosefinch: 3
Total: 20

Rubén

torsdag den 30. maj 2013

The Big Bill

This is one of the species that I most wanted to ring since I am a ringer. And today, finally, I have got it. It is a difficult bird to capture here at Gedser and it seems that in some spring there is not any ringed bird , but today I have been lucky.


The day has been again with not so many birds (17) but with a nice number of species (12):

Barn Swallow: 1
Common Redstart: 1
Reed Warbler: 2
Marsh Warbler: 1
Icterine Warbler: 1
Lesser Whitethroat: 1
Common Whitethroat: 3
Willow Warbler: 1
Greenfinch: 2
Linnet: 1
Common Rosefinch: 1

Hawfinch: 1

Rubén

onsdag den 29. maj 2013

A tiny greenish surprise.

This morning was very windy with gust of 11m/s and wind from Northeast. The ringing session started at 4:00 and I did not have any bird until the 7:30, and actually, all day has been very poor in number of ringed birds with only 11. But when I was extracting the first birds I found a tiny surprise: it was a Greenish Warbler!


I was happy to have some rare bird; however I turned happier when Hans told me that this one is the first Greenish warbler ringed at Gedser Fuglestation.

Sand Martin: 1
Icterine Warbler: 1
Lesser Whitethroat: 1
Common Whitethroat: 2
Greenish Warbler: 1
Willow Warbler: 2
Pied Flycatcher: 1
Red-backed Shrike: 1


Rubén.

tirsdag den 28. maj 2013

Wave of Willow Warbler

This morning has been calm until I had the intrusion of Willow Warbler that invaded the garden. I ringed 39 willow warblers from 76 birds, which means the day with more willows for this spring. The day has been pretty much like yesterday; with many species and without any highlight species, with the exception of willow warbler.

However, the most interesting capture of the day has been a Grasshopper Warbler since it is very difficult to catch here during the spring migration. 


White Wagtail: 1
Wreng: 1
Dunnock: 1
Black Redstart: 1
Common Redstart: 5
Grasshopper Warbler: 1
Marsh Warbler: 3
Icterine Warbler: 7
Lesser Whitethroat: 3
Common Whitethroat: 3
Garden warbler: 5
Blackcap: 1
Chiffchaff: 1
Willow Warbler: 39
Pied Flycatcher: 2
Linnet: 1
Rosefinch: 1


Rubén

mandag den 27. maj 2013

Ringing again

After two days of unsuccessful sessions due to the rain (yesterday I did not post because I could not setup nets) today, I have done a normal session and the morning has been very pleasant.

The surprise of the day has been the couple of Lesser Redpoll. The male presented cloacal protuberance and the female incubation patch.


And the other remarkable bird of the day was the 6th capture of Red-breasted Flycatcher for this year; that means a nice number of birds for the spring migration.


The total number of ringed birds was 29, with a long list of species with a total of 18.

White Wagtail: 1
Dunnock: 1
Common Redstart: 2
Reed Warbler: 1
Marsh Warbler: 1
Icterine Warbler: 3
Lesser Whitethroat: 1
Garden warbler: 4
Blackcap: 1
Wood Warbler: 1
Chiffchaff: 2
Willow Warbler: 3
Red-breasted Flycatcher: 1
Red-backed Shrike: 2
Chaffinch: 1
Lesser Redpoll: 2
Linnet: 1
Common Rosefinch: 1

Rubén


lørdag den 25. maj 2013

Incomplete session.

This morning I tried to accomplish the standardized session but I didn’t succeed because started to rain at 6:30. I set up 65 meters and in less than 2 hours and half I have ringed two Marsh warblers, one Reed warbler, one common Whitethroat, one garden warbler, one blackcap and one rosefinch.
Forecast for tomorrow shows similar situation than today, but if there is chance I will try to set up nets.

Yesterday afternoon, Louis, Hans and I were ringing chicks from netboxes at Louis’s garden. We ringed two boxes of starlings and another of tree sparrow.

























Rubén

fredag den 24. maj 2013

Back to Denmark

That is seemed what it made a recaptured chaffinch from Sweden. When I was reading the ring I noticed that it was very shiny, it seemed that was ringed some days ago. Later, we received news about Falsterbog, and indeed, the bird was ringed this spring there and then he went back to Denmarck.

The morning has been calm with 21 birds ringed and the most remarkable bird of the day has been the Sand Martin that is the first from the year.


Sand Martin: 1
Dunnock: 3
Icterine Warbler: 3
Lesser Whitethroat: 3
Common Whitethroat: 1
Garden warbler: 3
Chiffchaff: 1
Willow Warbler: 3
Great Tit: 1
Linnet: 1
Common Rosefinch: 1

Rubén

Kursister og en korsnæbbet fugl/ trainees Jonathan and Andrew and a crossed beaked bird

For two days Jonathan and Andrew (aka Jon and Andy) was visiting Gedser bird observatory and ringing station. The primary purpose was to learn to extract birds from mist nets and handling of birds.

They arrived shortly before 2000 hrs on Tuesday evening in order to begin their training very early in the following morning. The weather forecast for Wednesday was not exactly promising for ringing.
The following morning Louis arrived early – before the head ringer Ruben was up – this was simply due to the fact that it was raining. So tea and coffee was made for us all.
After a while Andy and Jon woke and the rain ceased just enough for Ruben to feel it was safe to set up a few nets. Hans Lind had also made his way to the station despite the not too promising weather.

Despite the weather Andy and Jon did manage to handle a few birds this the first morning.

Andy with his first shrike - happy young man

Jon with his first shrike -
skillfully demonstration that a hand must be held over the wings too

After about three hours we had to close the nets due to too much rain. A quick breakfast, tea and coffee and it was time to discuss their project in more details and to hear what they were hoping for to accomplish in Indonesia – which is going to be where there their field work eventually will take place. Louis poured from his experience from his many years of work in the tropics. And later tried to give Jon and Andy feel of how a camp could be set up – this via a few slides from his own camps in Tanzania.

Lunch break and a long session with opening and folding of nets on the loft of the station followed until almost 3 pm. It was really great to be able to work indoor with this – a great opportunity and advantage of the Gedser ringing station.
The wireless internet was set up to they could be in contact with the world – much appreciated.

Following Thursday (yesterday) morning they were up at around 0500 hours – and we were off into the garden where thanks to Ruben all nets had been set!! Thank you J

So following Hans’ arrival we could begin the session with extracting birds from the nets – all in all Jon and Andy managed to extract between 10-15 birds each which was a good number and not stressful.
Two Shakespeare? Or Romeo and Juliet?
During this sunny day we also had reasonable views of two red-breasted flycatchers, a few eiders, barnacle gees, common and honey buzzards and heard a serine and a funny sounding white-throat on this very beautiful but windy day – Jon was really cold so he was “set to do some hard work”.





Around lunch time even Jon felt a bit warmer so Jon and Andy enjoyed their lunch in front of the ringing stations' house.

Though shortly before lunch a nice bird was caught;
A female cross-beaked redstart!


The danish version......


I to dage blev der afholdt et lille men intensivt kursus i håndtering og udtagning af fugle fra spejlnets på Gedser Fuglestation. Den første dag var meget regnfuld så efter en sen morgenstart netop på grund af regn blev det kun til ca. tre timers med net oppe men alligevel lykkedes det at få fugle i hånden til kursisterne Jon og Andy. Efter de tre timer var det tid til inden døre diskussioner omkring deres feltarbejde der skal tage plads i Indonesien og udveksling af erfaring fra feltarbejde i Tanzania. Senere var det tid til at lære at håndtere spejlnet og lære at lukke dem – dette kunne kun lade sig gøre takket være Gedser fuglestations meget store og lange loft hvor vi så kunne gøre dette i ro og mag og uden den silende regn der faldt udenfor.
Anden dage bød på et markant vejrskift og godt var det da det var mange fugle for Andy og Jon at lære at tage ud af nettene. Det forløb godt og hele dagen bød på masser af sol men kold vind og meget af sidst nævnte.
Ved 14-tiden var det tid til Andy og Jon at vende tilbage til København.


Jon, Andy and the head-ringer Ruben from Spain!

Ruben, Hans og med hjælp fra Louis og Gert naturligvis

torsdag den 23. maj 2013

After rain the wind


We had a strong wind during all night and also during the morning, with 13m/s. Anyway, we have ringed 20 birds and recaptured a high number of birds from previous days.  

Today, we were working more people than usual, and the good number of birds has provided to John and Andy practicing in the extraction and handling of the birds.

About the birds, again the most remarkable bird of the day has been the Red-brested Flycatcher.

Marsh Warbler: 2
Reed Warbler: 1
Icterine Warbler: 1
Lesser Whitethroat: 1
Common Whitethroat: 6
Garden warbler: 1
Chiffchaff: 1
Willow Warbler: 5
Red-brested Flycatcher: 1
Linnet: 1

Rubén

onsdag den 22. maj 2013

Rainy day


Today I could not do the standardized session because was raining at dawn. However, we opened some nets during 3 hours, when it was not raining too much, to teach to two Louis's trainees how to extract from nets and handle birds. And we could ring two Marsh warblers, one common Whitethroat, one Willow warbler and two Red-backed Shrikes.

It seems that tomorrow we will get back to normality.

Rubén

tirsdag den 21. maj 2013

Another good day


Today I had a similar day than yesterday but with a little bit less birds and species; with 67 birds from 12 species. The weather has been also foggy and it started to rain at 10:30 so I could not spend more time than the standardized.  I have had more or less the same species than yesterday with another Red-breasted Flycatcher. However, today I ringed 11 Marsh Warbler but any Reed Warbler.

Robin: 2
Thrush Nightingale: 1
Marsh Warbler: 11
Icterine Warbler: 7
Lesser Whitethroat: 3
Common Whitethroat: 13
Garden warbler: 14
Blackcap: 1
Willow Warbler: 10
Spotted Flycatcher:  1
Red-breasted Flycatcher: 1
Red-backed Shrike: 3

Today I want to change and I am going to put a photo of a hedgehog that I found this morning in front of house.

The forecast shows for tomorrow heavy rain, so I am afraid that it will be impossible to do the ringing session.

Rubén

mandag den 20. maj 2013

Amazing day


If we compare the session of today with the previous from last weeks, we have a huge difference in number of ringed birds; 114 ringed birds from 18 species. Undoubtedly, has been one of the best spring migration days for passerines.

The highlight bird of the day has been the Willow Warbler with 27 birds. I ringed four species of Sylvia warbler with a total of 39 birds. Also, I have had a good number of Acrocephalus warblers with 21 birds; at early morning I have had mixed Marsh and Reed Warblers, but then after a couple of hours I ringed only Marsh Warblers. And also to highlight the capture of three species of flycatchers.

Tree Pipit: 1
Common Redstart: 3
Whinchat: 1
Blackbird: 1
Marsh Warbler: 15
Reed Warbler:  6
Icterine Warbler: 7
Lesser Whitethroat: 2
Common Whitethroat: 18
Garden warbler: 16
Blackcap: 3
Willow Warbler: 27
Spotted Flycatcher: 3
Red-breasted Flycatcher: 1
Pied Flycatcher: 2
Red-backed Shrike: 6
Tree Sparrow: 1
Linnet: 1

And to finish, a photo of Whinchat that is a new species for the season.
Rubén

søndag den 19. maj 2013

The first Rosefinch


After waiting so long we finally had the first capture of rosefinch. There was not an adult male, but I am sure that we will catch one sooner o later.
The day was marked by a bad weather with the presence of clouds, fog and some rain. But as usual from these days there have been a good number of catches with 35 birds ringed in total and with a big diversity of species. To highlight today the abundant captures of Common Whitethroat with a total of 16.

Dunnock: 1
Robin:  1
Common Redstart: 1
Reed Warbler: 1
Icterine Warbler: 2
Lesser Whitethroat: 2
Common Whitethroat: 16
Garden warbler: 5
Blackcap: 1
Chiffchaff: 1
Chaffinch: 1
Common Rosefinch: 1
Yellowhammer: 1

lørdag den 18. maj 2013

Last Flycatcher to arrive


Today has been a normal day with 20 ringed birds and two new species for the season: the Spotted Flycatcher and the Marsh Warbler.

 The most amazing fact of the day has been the recapture of one Common Whitethroat female ringed the august of 2006 such a 1k.

Dunnock: 5
Marsh Warbler: 1
Icterine Warbler: 1
Common Whitethroat: 2
Garden warbler: 1
Willow Warbler: 1
Spotted Flycatcher: 2
House Sparrow: 1
Chaffinch: 1
Linnet: 2

fredag den 17. maj 2013


Golden morning

Actually, the morning was grey with clouds and slightly rain. And again the ringed birds were few, with only 11. But I have had a great capture that gave some colour to the morning.


It is a quite difficult bird to catch and, indeed, this is the 5th ringed Oriol at Gedser. The list of ringed birds is the next:

Dunnock: 1
Icterine Warbler: 1
Common Whitethroat: 3
Garden warbler: 1
Blackcap: 1
Golden Oriol: 1
Chaffinch: 1
Greenfinch: 1
Goldfinch: 1

Rubén

torsdag den 16. maj 2013

Flycatchers and a nice host


This morning was finally different and I had 33 birds from 12 different species.
At the first round I found firstly a Pied Flycatcher and then a Red-breasted Flycatcher. The bird was nervous at hand so I decided just to take photo to the tail to show at blog the specie.

But, why I have a photo of whole bird?
Because, later I had another one. And this time the bird was calm and I could take a photo.

However the funniest moment of the day was when I finished doing one of the rounds and I went back to the house. I found a Barn Swallow inside the house trying to flee through one closed window. Luckily, I could catch it fast and I checked the bird that it was not hurt.

Barn Swallow: 1
Tree Pipit: 1
Lesser Whitethroat: 1
Common Whitethroat: 7
Garden warbler: 5
Blackcap: 1
Wood Warbler: 1
Chiffchaff: 1
Willow Warbler: 11
Red-breasted Flycatcher: 2
Pied Flycatcher: 1
Red-backed Shrike: 1

Rubén 

onsdag den 15. maj 2013

And the bird of the week is…



The Common Kestrel!!!

I caught, probably, the female that has been using the aerial (where some nest boxes are situated) such a perch to hunt. There is a picture taken by Benny on the day 2.5.2013 at the gallery.


Actually, today has been a normal day without any special or new to add. However the kestrel, that is the first raptor of the season, made the day very interesting.

The birds were in total 15,

Common Kestrel: 1
Dunnock: 1
Common Redstart: 1
Common Whitethroat: 3
Blackcap: 1
Willow Warbler: 6
House Sparrow: 1
Goldfinch: 1

Rubén

tirsdag den 14. maj 2013

Crazy weather


This has been the weather of today; very unstable and changeful. We had clouds, sun, a little bit of rain, moments with strong wind with 12m/s and other with no wind. However, I could do the full standardized session and I ringed more birds than yesterday.

Sometimes, Common Whitethroats are difficult to sex, but today I had one recapture from 2010 that shows very conspicuous male features on the head; grey crown, pure white throat, iris yellowish-brown and pure white eye-ring. 


The ringed birds were:

Icterine warbler: 1
Lesser Whitethroat: 1
Common Whitethroat: 6
Willow Warbler: 9
Linnet: 1

Rubén

mandag den 13. maj 2013

Calm day


Today I had a morning with strong wind that made difficult to catch a good number of birds. In total I ringed 11 birds.

Donnack: 1
Blackbird: 1
Song Thrush: 1
Common Whitethroat: 5
Willow Warbler: 2
Coal Tit: 1

Around the garden I watched three Red Kites resting on top of tree, a couple of Marsh Harriers, a couple of Partridges and the first Golden Oriol. 

For tomorrow, the forecast shows stronger wind, lower temperature and slightly rain, so I hope to be able to set up nets at time and to ring some birds.

søndag den 12. maj 2013

Successful Open House Day.


Today we had a very special day, as we showed to the public what is done at Gedser Fuglestation. The response from people has been splendid and a lot of people have come up here to see how the station runs and learn about birds. Even a local newspaper has been interested in the activity that has taken place today.

People have not stopped to come all morning to the open house, from early risers at 7 in the morning until  the last when we finished at 12 hours. So Benny and Hans have been busy all the morning teaching how it works the birdringing and explanations about the birds. We had practical demonstration of birdringing and we could  show to the public all the birds of today. Birds have joined us this morning and people have been able to see many species of birds like robin, common and lesser warbler, blackbird or red-backed shrike.



Inside the house there was information about birds, materials and a contest of bird identification. Also, to rest and gather strength the people could drink hot coffee and take cake.

The people have been very pleased with the open house day and we are happy to approach them a little bit the bird world.

Rubén

lørdag den 11. maj 2013

Open House day preparations.


Today has been a day with few birds but with a lot of work done, and not because the bird ringing session but for the preparations for the open house day of tomorrow.

We have ringed a total of 15 birds on 12 hours, a very low capture rate. But, we also had four recaptures of which 3 of them were common warblers ringed in the years 2012, 2011 and 2010. However, we had a total of 10 species and having two new species for the year; the starling and the goldfinch, which are common birds but had not yet been captured.



Here is a picture of Michael and me happy to have finished the job of removing the old branches from the garden.


And remember, tomorrow is the Open House day!

Rubén

fredag den 10. maj 2013

Visitor from Sweden and a little "bandit"



Two remarkable events happened today. Firstly at 8:00, we trapped a common whitethroat with Stockholm address.

And then, at 9:00, we capture a Penduline Tit. At the beginning, I thought that it was not scarce ringed bird here, but Hans was with us and told us that the bird of today is the third penduline tit ringed at Gedser, the two previous were a couple ringed the 14.06.2009.

The final list shows a larger number of birds(36), however with less number of species than yesterday (10)
Dunnock: 4
Common Redstart: 1
Blackbird: 1
Lesser Whitethroat: 3
Common Whitethroat: 7
Willow Warbler: 16
Firecrest: 1
Penduline Tit: 1
Linnet: 1
Yellowhammer: 1

Michael, Uffe Damm and Bente have been birdwatching at Gedsser Odde and they watched a Osprey, Merlin, Hobby and Blake Kite. And finally when we were closing the nets five Honey Buzzards crossed over us very low.

Rubén

torsdag den 9. maj 2013

New and old birds


Today has been one of the most interesting days from last weeks. We did not have a big amount of captures, only 24.  Though we could capture 13 different species, being the most remarkable the four captures of Red-backed Shrike with two males and two females.

We ringed the first Garden Warbler of the season and we had a recapture of the first Icterine Warbler as well.


About the observations at the garden we saw Spotted Flycatcher, one Blake Kite, three Honey Buzzard and the most surprising was to watch a Waxwing, which it seem  is a very late record for this region.

However, the big surprise of the day for Michael and Hans G. was when we recapture the Blyth’s Reed Warbler.

European Robin: 1  
Thrush Nightingale: 1
Common Redstart: 1
Common blackbird: 1
Lesser Whitethroat: 3
Common Whitethroat: 1
Garden Warbler: 2
Blackcap: 2
Willow Warbler: 5
Pied Flycatcher: 1
Red-backed Shrike: 4
Chaffinch: 1
Linnet: 1

Rubén

onsdag den 8. maj 2013

What specie of warbler are you?




When I picked up the first Acrocephalus warbler of the season, the initial impression that gave me it was a Marsh Warbler by the coloration. But once in the lab I have measured the wing-length and was rather less than the minimum belonging to Marsh Warbler.

So after see that maybe it was not neither a Reed Warbler for its coloration and some biometrics I have considered the option of being a Blyth's Reed Warbler. So after checking the biometric data offered by Svensson at passerine identification guide and to see that had pale tip of the bill  and a well marked supercilium above lores I have begun to believe that indeed it was a Blyth's Reed Warbler.

Then, I asked aid from Hans who also took biometric data and finally we determined as Blyth's Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus dumetorum).


This is the fifth capture here in Gedser, and it seems to be the earliest record in Denmark during spring season.

Apart from this bird we had 9 captures more from other 7 species.
Blackbird: 1
Lesser whitethroat: 1
Common whitethroat: 1
Blackcap: 1
Wood warbler: 1
Willow warbler: 3
Pied flycatcher: 1

Rubén

tirsdag den 7. maj 2013

Changes


While I was setting up the nets I heard the song of Thrush Nightingale, so I was motivate with the idea of catch it in the first round. And so it has been, but with the surprise of a second one.  


After a week with few migrants, today it seems that finally has begun to change the tendency. We  had the last Common Whitethroat on April 27th and after 9 days with no captures, today we had it again. 

White wagtail: 2
Dunnock: 6
Robin: 2
Thrush nightingale: 2
Common redstart: 2
Blackbird: 3
Lesser whitethroat: 2
Common whitethroat: 4
Blackcap: 8
Willow warbler: 4
Chaffinch: 1
Linnet: 1 

mandag den 6. maj 2013

Red-backed Shrike


No big change for today. It has been a poor day with the total number of catches, with only 9 birds ringed. However, all are not bad news because at least I captured the first Red-backed Shrike of the spring. As Hans commented me, seems it is an early bird and more if we consider the belated arrival of other migrant birds.


Without doubt it is a fascinating bird that is far from what would be a typical passerine and, for me, is always a pleasure capture it despite the “gifts” that can give you.

The list of today show as there are not many long-distance migrants:

Dunnock: 1
Common redstart: 1
Blackbird: 2
Blackcap: 1
Willow warbler: 2
Red-backed shrike: 1
Linnet: 1

søndag den 5. maj 2013

Serin in the garden


At around 6 in the morning when I went back from the lab I heard  a very familiar song to me; the song of a Serin. It was a male perched on top of a tree singing his so characteristic song. Consists of a gurgling  that reminiscent the crackling of oil when frying an egg. The pity was not to trap the bird...


In regard to the ringing  day, it has been similar to the previous days. Few catches (14) but at least varied with 9 species.

Dunnock: 1
Robin: 1
Lesser Whitethroat: 3
Blackcap: 1
Chiffchaff: 1
Willow warbler: 3
Greenfinch: 1
Chaffinch: 1
Yellowhammer: 1


I hope to have soon new arrival of migrant birds and, why not, to catch a Serin.

lørdag den 4. maj 2013

Calm day with Blackcaps

Today has been a calm day with 16 birds and with no so much work. The main species ringed has been the blackcap with 5 birds. The list of ringed bird from today is the next

Dunnock: 2
Robin: 1
Common Redstart: 1
Blackcap: 5
Chiffchaff: 2
Willow warbler: 2
Linnet: 2
Yellowhammer: 1

The most interesting of the day had been when I was going to check the net situated between the fields and one Peregrine Falcon went down sharply while it was chasing a bird. As well, I could see this morning a Black Kite being throw out by a couple of gulls.

fredag den 3. maj 2013

Visitors at Gedser


For today we had planned a visit of amateur ornithologists to see how it works the bird ringing. It was expected the arrival after 9 and until then the day had been bad, very bad. With only one chiffchaff, one lesser whitethroat and two dunnocks in four hours... so we did not expect to show many birds.

Before start when we picked up a recapture of lesser whitethroat we have felt relief to see that at least we could show a bird. Benny and Hans have explained to the group how it works the bird ringing and then, they visited the laboratory where we shown the lesser whitethroat.


But the surprise was to see that in the double net there was a gorgeous male of Yellowhammer, a great bird to show. And then, in a little time we had more birds to show; a dunnock and a great tit.

Rubén

torsdag den 2. maj 2013

Great Spotted Woodpecker


Definitely the highlight capture of the day has been the Great Spotted Woodpecker. Half morning listening it in the garden without much hope of catching it, but ultimately dropped in the net.


I have some experience with woodpeckers, but not nearly I remembered how difficult it is to deal with this group of birds; scratches and some pecks has been the consequences of ring it.

The captures of the day have been smaller than yesterday which a total of 27 birds from 11 species:

Great spotted woodpecker: 1
Dunnock: 6
Common redstart: 1
Blackbird: 2
Lesser whitethroat: 2
Blackcap: 1
Chiffchaff: 3
Willow warbler: 5
Great tit: 2
House sparrow: 1
Greenfinch: 3

onsdag den 1. maj 2013

Return of birds to the garden


After two days of bad weather manly by the wind, today has been very pleasant. No wind, a little bit cold though sunny. And this is reflected in the catches of the day with a total of 36 captures and 16 recaptures that makes a total of 50 birds, with highest presence of Willow Warblers (12) and Dunnocks (8).

Today Linnets and Greenfinches became more noticeable in the garden with their songs than previous days and I could finally catch a male of each.


As well as a male of Firecrest with a fantastic tinged orange crest.


Rubén