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Amphibians and Eagles

onsdag 17. juni 2020
af Martina Hillbrand

Today was another day for the CES ringing at Jennes Sø. This focusses on breeding birds so we catch fewer new birds and more recaptures. It gives us a chance to follow some individual birds over a longer period of time.  For example we had a blue tit (blåmejse), a pretty male, which has probably already finished breeding and has now started to moult its wing feathers. Males often start to moult earlier than females as females tend to have more work with the offspring (of course we do not want to draw any parallels here to the world of the humans).

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We only ringed 10 birds today but we also had 6 recaptures, and although we had few birds at least we had some variety. And it was not hot as in the morning it was raining a little bit.

We also caught this beautiful tree pipit which was nice since normally we hear them sing all the time but we rarely catch them.

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Also, since there were not that many birds, we got to study a few other animals too. The lake was full of tadpoles, some without legs and some already with legs. And on the grass dozens of tiny baby toads were hopping away from the water. A good chance to see the development of amphibians close up.

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After the ringing we went home and while the girls slept Frederik went out to look for raptors and he was lucky enough to finally see the steppe eagle (steppeørn) he had always missed when it was here. Apparently it is the same bird that was here several days two weeks ago and then left. It was seen in Aalborg yesterday but after a short visit to the rest of Denmark decided to come back here. We can totally relate to that since here is just the best part of Denmark!

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But not only did he see the steppe eagle but he was also lucky enough to see it right next to a lesser spotted eagle (lille skrigeørn) which is a very rare but wonderful opportunity to compare the two species.

In the afternoon first we had a visit from Martin, who works for Swarowski in Denmark and brought us a brand new pair of digital binoculars which we get to test over the next few weeks. We are really excited to see how they work and will report once we get a good impression!

After that we all went to Grenen in order to move a net to a different place and we also set up another net, so now we have a total of 23 nets out there. The new location is also more in the reeds so we might catch different species there. Tomorrow we will get to test it!

 

Ringing Jennes Sø:

Skovpiber – Tree Pipit – 1

Blåmejse – Blue Tit - 1

Gærdesmutte – Wren – 1

Gulbug – Icterine Warbler – 1

Solsort – Blackbird - 2

Munk – Blackcap – 2

Rødhals – Robin – 1

Gransanger – Chiffchaff -1

Total:10

People : Martina Hillbrand, Frederik R. Johansen and Amandine Doré

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Newly hatched Crested tits (Topmejse ) in the net !

mandag 15. juni 2020
af Amandine Doré

This morning, Martina and me went opening the nets, while Frederik enjoyed a little extra sleep and joined us for the first round. The weather conditions were very good - sunny weather, warm and not much wind - which is unfortunately also perfect for mosquitoes !

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We caught more birds than we had these last few days. In our last rounds to the net, we caught 4 Crested tits (Topmejse), all of them likely born this year. This species is highly social and form small flocks, therefore it is not unusual to caught several of them in the nets.  

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Ringmærkning (Kabeltromlen):

Gransanger – Chiffchaff - 1

Lille Dompap – Bullfinch – 1

Bogfinke – Chaffinch -  5

Havesanger – Garden Warbler -  1

Tornsanger – Common Whitethroat – 4

Munk – Blackcap – 13

Topmejse – Crested Tit – 3

Kærsanger – Marsh Warbler – 4

Rørsanger – Reed Warbler – 2

Sangdrossel – Song Thrush – 1

Gærdesmutte – Wren – 2

Gærdesanger – Lesser Whitehtroat – 2

Total: 39

People : Martina Hillbrandt, Frederik R. Johansen and Amandine Doré

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Rosenstær og Spurvehøg

søndag 14. juni 2020
af Frederik Johansen

I dag startede Amandine og jeg med at tage ud og åbne net. Senere kom Lars og hjalp til med ringmærkningen. Det gik godt i dag. Vi var nemlig så heldige at få lov til at ringmærke en Spurvehøg!

Klokken 0640 kom der en FLOOOOOT Rosenstær på trækforsøg. Det var dagens højdepunkt, for den er bare så lææækker!!

Amandine blev herhjemme og jeg tog ud at se på sommerfugle. Så en masse fede og smukke sommerfugle!

Her til aften kom Martina tilbage, og vi ser meget frem til de næste dage sammen med hende igen!

Ringmærkning (Kabeltromlen):

Spurvehøg - 1

Kærsanger - 2

Rørsanger - 2

Gulbug - 1

Gærdesanger - 2

Munk - 7

Lille Gråsisken - 3

Rørspurv - 1

Sum: 19

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Folk: Amandine Doré, Lars Bo Jacobson, Thomas W. Johansen og Frederik Johansen.

 

A day of office work

lørdag 13. juni 2020
af Amandine Doré

Today it’s only me and Frederik at the station. Because we were only 2 and because the weather was not very good, we did not go out ringing. We used the time we had to complete other tasks, such as cleaning, entering data and other office work. Webp.net resizeimage 9
Frederik went bird watching during the afternoon and saw a female Greta Reed Warbler while I stayed at the station and worked on the computer. I also went to visit the lighthouse exhibition  and then climbed up the lighthouse tower for the first time since I arrived. The views on Skagen peninsula from there are wonderful.
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Frederik R. Johansen and Amandine Doré

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A busy day of surveying and catching in Skagen AND aurevoir Skagen !

fredag 12. juni 2020
af Amandine Doré and Fanny Rey

Today, Frederik, Fanny and I went out ringing at the Cable Drum. As migration period is reaching an end, the number of birds caught in the nets is slowing down. Moreover, today was very windy and we decided to close the nets earlier. Only 5 birds were caught.

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Later in the morning, Fanny and I went out to the Cormorants’ Colonies, to do a survey of the nests and chicks. There are about 30 active nests in this colony, and today we saw that a large part of the nests had chicks, usually between 2 and 3. We could see the parents regurgitating food to their nestlings, and some of them were already big. We also saw several females incubating but couldn’t know for sure if there were chicks or still eggs.

In the afternoon, Fanny and I decided to try to catch adult Common Ringed Plovers, after ringing the chicks yesterday, while Frederik decided to go and look for a Rock Thrush that had been seen these previous days. We tried to trap the adult plovers, but unfortunately this was not successful. We however, found a nest, which was very well camouflaged among the rocks ! Common Ringed Plover lay their eggs directly on the ground, in open and bare habitat, relying on camouflage to protect their nest, eggs and young chicks.

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Can you find the nest ?

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We ended up the day by a nice dinner in the Café Blink at the Lighthouse, which was celebrating its reopening today.  The food was really good and we enjoyed this relaxing time after a very busy day.

Fanny :

It is time for me to say goodbye to Skagen, after 3 amazing months who past just like 3  weeks, I am leaving with my mind  full of all great memories and plenty of new birds ! Skagen is truly an amazing place to go birding with such a great spirit around all the birders, who are happy to share their sitting and spend time together, that also make such a special place! I was looking so forward to see the sort-eared owl and Pallid harrier for so long in France and I needed only one month here to have just amazing setting of them. The ringing was so various, with so many species and passionate teacher always happy to give advice, big thanks you to Simon for that and his truth on us  ! Honestly, for anybody who still don’t now where to go, Skagen is the place to be in Spring ! Great observation, amazing bird in the nets and so kind birder everywhere, the volunteers, the locals and the also visitor. Thanks you, all of you that I meet here, visitor for some days, volunteers, or local for many years, you made my stay special in Skagen and I won’t forget it! I post my favourite picture of my time in Skagen, not the best picture but such a special moment for me that I won’t forget, thanks to Frederik who spot the bird from the observatory windows…

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Ringing (Kabeltromlekrattet)

Lille gråsisken – 1
Rødhals – 1
Gærdesanger – 1
Bogfinke – 1
Munk - 1

Simon S. Christiansen, Fanny Rey, Frederik R. Johansen and Amandine Doré

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Ringing Common Ringed Plover’s chicks !

torsdag 11. juni 2020
af Amandine Doré

This morning, Frederik and I went opening the nets and Fanny joined us some time later for the first round. The weather was lightly cloudy and quite windy. We caught very few birds in the first rounds, and even less in the last rounds, maybe because of the wind. We caught two Bullfinches (Dompap), one male and one female, probably a breeding pair. We saw flocks of Common crossbills (Lille korsnæb) flying around. Lars did observations and counts of the species seen while we were ringing.
 

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After the ringing session, Fanny and I went to check if eggs of previously known Common ringed plovers’ (Stor præstekrave) nests in Grenen beach had hatched, and we saw indeed some very young chicks running around with their parents. We decided to come back a bit later in the afternoon to catch the chicks and ring them. While ringing, the parents of the chicks were feigning having a broken wing (distraction display). This is a common strategy used by plovers to distract predators from attacking their chicks.  We ringed two clutches of ringed plover, the first one with 3 chicks, the second one with 2.

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A very young chick

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Weighing of the chicks

We ended the day by a nice dinner in a restaurant of Skagen, and then some bird watching in the fields around the town. We were looking for Rosy’s starlings (Rosenstær) but only saw Common starlings (Stær).

Ringing (Kabeltromlekrattet & Grenen beach):

Bogfinke - 1
Dompap, Lille (ssp. europaea) - 1
Tornsanger - 2
Havesanger - 1
Munk - 2
Gærdesmutte - 2
Rørsanger- 1
Gulbug - 1
Rødhals - 2
Gærdesanger - 1
Kærsanger - 2
Stor Præstekrave – 5

Lars Bo Jacobsen, Simon S. Christiansen, Fanny Rey, Frederik R. Johansen and Amandine Doré

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Nightjar catching

onsdag 10. juni 2020
af Amandine Doré

Yesterday evening, we all went for some night-catching in Sandmiten, hoping to catch some Nightjars (Natravn). While setting up the nets, we started to hear some males singing, and saw at least three of them flying. 

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The weather conditions were good to catch nightjars – sky slightly cloudy and no wind – but unfortunately, after long hours waiting in the cold night and several rounds to the nets, no bird was caught… But we will probably try again soon!
During the night we also saw and heard several woodcocks flying over us. Other interesting fact, there was some faeces on the road, probably belonging to a wolf !

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As the sun rose, we came back to the the Bird Observatory and Esben and I went out opening the nets at the Cable Drum Shrubbery. Fanny joined us some some time later, with some coffee that was definitely needed after this long night. The morning was very sunny and warm. Not many birds were caught, but we got a Reed Bunting (Rørspurv) and, in the last round, a young Crested tit (Topmejse)! Its an anually thing that the young Crested tits do dispersal here in June away from the breeding area while the adult stays.
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While waiting for the nets, we saw a Bittern (Rørdrum) flying around, heard and saw several Common Snipes (Dobbeltbekkasin).

Today was last day for Esben’s in the Observatory and he left after the ringing in the morning. 

After dinner we went to the comorant lake in the evening, we did'nt see the Little Bittern but a nice Kingfisher was showing.

Ringing (Kabeltromlekrattet):

Gærdesmutte: 1
Rødstjert: 1
Kærsanger: 5
Rørsanger: 4
Gulbug: 1
Tornsanger: 3
Havesanger: 2
Munk: 4
Gransanger: 1
Topmejse: 1
Bogfinke: 2

Total: 24

Esben E. Hansen,  Lars Bo Jacobsen,Simon S. Christiansen, Fanny Rey, Frederik R. Johansen, Pernille Roed and Amandine Doré

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Bjergvipstjert

tirsdag 9. juni 2020
af Frederik Johansen

I dag tog vi alle til Kabeltromlen for at ringmærke. Det var en fin dag med massere af Rørsangere og Kærsangere. Til sidst var vi så heldige at fange en Bjergvipstjert!! Den var bare vildt fed!

Vi tog tidligt hjem for at slappe af og lave arbejdet færdigt for i dag. For senere skal vi ud og fange Natravne, og det bliver bare vildt spændende at se, om vi kan fange noget! 

Mærkning (Kabeltromlen):

Skovpiber - 1

Bjergvipstjert - 1

Rødhals - 6

Vindrossel - 1

Kærsanger - 9

Rørsanger - 11

Gulbug - 1

Gærdesanger - 2

Tornsanger - 5

Havesanger - 2

Munk - 8

Gransanger - 2

Løvsanger - 1

Bogfinke - 1

Lille Gråsisken - 1

Sum: 52

Folk: Simon S. Christiansen, Esben E. Hansen, Fanny Rey, Amandine Dore og Frederik R. Johansen

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News species in the nets for Skagen fugelstation !

mandag 8. juni 2020
af Fanny Rey

Today Frederik, Esben and I went ringing at Kabeltromlen. Simon joind us for the second round. The two first round where very nice with a lot of birds and then it went very slow just in 30 minutes which was very surprising ! With all this bird we had some very nice surprise, in the same round we get, a Crested tit (Topmejse) and Water rail (Vandrikse) and a Greenish warbler (Lundsanger)!!!

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The Greenish warbler it the first caught for this species for Skagen bird observatory.

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Frederik get to ring his first Jay (Skovskade) today, he will remember of the bite ! We also had the visit of Athena and her very cute dogs, she was volunteers here during the first year of the observatory. We haven’t so much time to observe migration with all this bird today but we still saw Hen Harrier (Blå kærhøg), a Oriole (Pirol) was seem in Ellekratette. The Little Bittern (Dværghejre) was still observe at the Cormorant colony today.

During the afternoon we all had all a good nap after this good morning and then work on the computer.

This evening a new volunteer came, Amandine from France which is going to be there until end of August.

Esben made a very nice Barbecue for all of us and frieds tonight with a special dessert form Denmark that I forget the name of course but was very nice !

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Ringing (Kabeltromlen):

                Gransanger        1                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Bogfinke              2                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Havesanger        3                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Tornsanger         5                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Munk                    14                                                                                                                                                                                                          

                Rødstjert             1                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Gærdesanger    1                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Sivsanger             1                                                                                                                                                                            

                Kærsanger          10                                                                                                                                                                                                          

                Rørsanger           11                                                                                                                                                                                                          

                Topmejse            1                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Lundsanger        1                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Solsort                  1                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Sangdrossel        1                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Vindrossel           1                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Skovskade          1                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Vandrikse            1             

Sum:                      56

Folk: Esben E. Hansen, Simon S. Christiansen, Frederik Johansen, Athena Valentin Jensen, Amandine Dore, Fanny Rey

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Lang dag, kort blog

søndag 7. juni 2020
af Esben E. Hansen

Vækkeuret ringede 02.30 hvor vi skulle ud og åbne net, denne gang blev det Martina og Anders. Vi andre kunne sove en time længere.  Første runde var god og sådan var det resten af dagen indtil vi lukkede net kl. 12, hele 81 nye ringmærkede fugle. Hvoriblandt 2 karmindompap.

 Kl 11.00 sprang jeg fra, for jeg skulle hjælpe Niels med en guidet tur rundt i reservatet.

Highlights fra morgenobs var, Rosenstær, pirol og Sortstrubet lom.

Om eftermiddagen blev der tjekket ringmærkningsdata og lavet andre praktiske ting lige indtil der blev meldt en dværghejre ved Skarvsøen, som vi skulle ud at prøve at se.

Rødstjert                2

Sivsanger               2

Kærsanger             9

Rørsanger              8

Gulbug                  10

Tornsanger             6

Havesanger           6

Munk                     19

Gransanger           1

Løvsanger              2

Bogfinke                 5

Grønsisken             2

Karmindompap       2

Dompap                  2

Rørspurv                 1

Gærdesmutte          3

Gærdesanger          1

Sum:                      81

Folk: Martina Hillbrand, Esben E. Hansen, Lars Bo Jacobsen, Anders Brinkmann, Simon S. Christiansen, Niels Eriksen, Fanny Rey, Rune Sø Neergaard.

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