April 24th, 2026

Today there was a bit of activity when we opened the nets. A snipe took off at Enora’s feet and I heard my first blue tit on the island (!). Enora also saw a long eared owl (hornfugle)while waiting for sunrise. In the morning we caught a gorgeous Brambling (BjØrkefink) in summer plumage and 3 Lesser Redpoll (Brunnsisik). It also has been a very productive day for chiffchaff (gransanger) with 20 birds ringed. And we had our first male goldcrest (was it the guilty one?) , coming after the females as expected in their migration logic (but isn’t that just the usual way for all males?? 😁).
Today we got some company, the team came back to continued to rebuild the harbour and Geir and John join us on the island for the weekend.
 
Av interessante observasjoner kan nevnes: dverglo 1 og hornugle 1.
 
Dagens ringmerking: rødstrupe 7, svarttrost 1, måltrost 2, gransanger 20, løvsanger 3, fuglekonge 2, bjørkefink 1 og brunsisik 3. Total : 39.