Today was a warm and sunny autumn day at Gedser. Unfortunately, the sun did not bring as many birds as we would have hoped. 96 birds were banded, which is quite a few, but a little less than recent days. However, we cannot complain, the weather was beautiful and we all got a chance to do lots of bird watching this afternoon!
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| Rødhals (Erithacus rubecula) |
In the lab, there was mostly rødhals and fuglekonge, but there were higher numbers of gærdesmutte than usual, which made out to be a nice surprise. Our banded bird of today was definitely the træløber, what a fantastic bird!
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| Gærdesmutte (Troglodytes troglodytes) |
The weather made out for some nice bird watching today. Anders went out to the tip where he saw two merlins and seven little gulls. Joe and I walked down to the beach and saw a golden plover along the shore, as well as a flock of red breasted mergansers flying overhead. At the station we had a great grey shrike overhead as well as a hen harrier that just missed the net (darnit!).
Although the day was not very busy, it was nice to have some time to enjoy the scenery and nice weather. As a Canadian, I can say I really appreciate 16 degree weather in October!
Blog: Abbi
Photos: Anders Odd Wulff Nielsen
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