GREIFSWALDER OIE – 1
December 8th, 2008 geschrieben von PatrickWhithin October 2008 Marcus and I were at a ringing station on isle
“Greifswalder Oie” in Northeast-Germany.
For me, this offered a complete new view/hearing on this topic.
At my hometown Leipzig, the bird migration only appears with
large flocks of greater birds like Cranes or Geese. Now there were
mainly songbirds. One of the most frequent appearing birds on the island
were Goldcrests Regulus regulus – their high pitched calls were anywhere.
During the hourly “control-walks” along the nets, i notice a sound, seemingly
of geese, always from the same direction. Once a day, Marcus told me
about a tree nearby the nets that sounded like White-Fronted-Geese Anser albifrons
or kind of New Music!?
The acoustic highlight for me was two days of heavy migration
of Trushes. At morning. i walked a bit around, as i noticed hundreds
of ascending Blackbirds Turdus merula, Song Thrushes Turdus philomelos,
Mistle Thrushes Turdus viscivorus, Fieldfares Turdus pilaris, Redwings Turdus iliacus
and a single Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus.
Goldcrest Regulus regulus, October 12th, 2008:
A tree, October 22th, 2008:
various migrating songbirds, October 12th, 2008:
© Pic by Marcus Held
Tags: bird migration, birds, Greifswalder Oie, ringing
