After no ringing yesterday we were back out today. Unfortunately, the nice weather seems to have gone and has been replaced with strong winds. Perhaps it was this wind that kept the birds away today as the nets were quite empty. We did manage to catch a Brambling (Kvækerfinke), that formerly has been ringed by Michael at Jennes Sø.

While Rosa and Augustine were out ringing this morning, I (Robbie) was out observing at the World’s End with local birder Knud. There was certainly a lot of Sandwich Tern (Splitterne) migration activity today with 58 being seen in one hour alone and 117 being seen in total. There were a couple of noteworthy birds, with a Merlin (Dværgfalk) being spotted far out at sea, and a 1st year Caspian gull (Levantmåge) showing well on the beach. A few Guillemots (Lomvie) and a single Razorbill (Alk) were seen on migration today but we are yet to see any high numbers.

A big thanks to Esben who was helping out with ringing the past few days, we hope to see you again soon.

As we say goodbye to another week, we look forward to seeing more spectacular birds over the coming days and weeks as migration continues to ramp up.

Ringmærkning (Kabeltromlen)
Gransanger – 1
Tornsanger – 2
Munk – 5
Jernspurv – 3
Rørsanger – 2
Rødstjert – 1

Ringmærkning (Jennes Sø)

Jernspurv – 2
Gransanger – 1
Broget Fluesnapper – 1
Lille Gråsisken – 2

Total – 20

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Robbie Lawler, Esben Hansen, Michael Ancher og Dorte.

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Due to bad weather we unfortunately couldn’t go out ringing today, Esben and Lars Bo closed the nests from this nights attempt to catch a storm petrel (Lille Stormsvale), unfortunately without success. This meant we could sleep in and get some much needed sleep, in the morning we did a bit of cleaning around the lighthouse after that we had lunch and i checked some sheets with rosalina.

In the afternoon me and Robbie went out for soe observations around the lighthouse and found three resting oyster catchers (Strandskade) a turnstone (Stenvender) and some rock pipits (Skærpiber), very beautiful birds! In the eveing we went out a secont time to the tip and saw some sandwich terns (Splitterne) and a black-headed gullI (Hættemåge).And now at night we are trying to go nightcatching in batteriskoven to catch some birds there.

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Robbie Lawler, Esben Hansen, Lars Bo og Dorte.

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I nat forsøgte vi at fange stormsvaler igen men uden held desværre. Til gengæld fangede vi en sortgrå ryle, så det var jo meget fint.

Dorte har gået tur i dag og været i Skagen by ved Ankers hus, og så har hun nydt en god kop kaffe hos ”Baghaven” ved Cafe Blink.

I morges gik jeg, Augustin og Robbie ned for at tage nettene ned men til vores store overraskelse var de allerede blevet taget ned af de andre på stationen. Augustin og Henning ar været ude og ringmærke.

Esben, en tidligere frivillig på stationen, kom på besøg i går aftes ifm. nattefangsten og sov på sofaen natten over. Han skal blive her til på søndag. Vi sagde også farvel til Henning, som vi har haft det sjovt med de seneste par dage.

Robbie og jeg var ude og observere i dag, vi så bl.a. en strandhjejle og en masse fjordterner og splitterner.

Simon var også med ude ved Kabeltromlen og ringmærke og så også en broget fluesnapper i Batteriskoven. Jørgen og Lars så også fire topskarver ved Havnen her kl. 17:16.

Ringmærkning (Kabeltromlen)

 Gulspurv - 3

Jernspurve - 16

Rødstjert - 2

Kærsanger - 1

Rørsanger - 5

Blåmejse - 3

Tornsanger - 3

Munk - 1

Gransanger - 4

Ringmærkning (Jennes Sø)

Gærdesmutte – 1

Jernspurv – 2

Rødhals – 1

Rødstjert – 1

Rørsanger – 2

Gransanger – 3

Blåmejse – 3

Musvit – 2

Grønsisken – 2

Lille Gråsisken – 4

Lille Dompap - 2

Total – 61

(Den Sortgrå ryle er med i totalen fra igår, da den blev mærket før midnat)

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Robbie Lawler, Esben Hansen, Dorte, Lars Paaby og Jørgen Hulbæk.

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The sun was shining over Skagen today and we had a few first season ringing records for the team today. We ringed  our first Bull finches (Lille Dompop) of the Autumn. They were lifers for Augustine, which is always worth celebrating. We also caught and ringed some Marsh Warblers (Kærsanger) which Simon thinks may be some of the last of our season, keep your eyes on the blog to see if his prediction comes true. Another notable species was the Lesser redpoll (lille Grasisken), which again was the first of the Autumn for us.

Juvenile Bull finch (Lille Dompop)

Augustine entered the sound recordings of some night time migrating birds for the 30th and 31st of August into Trektellen today, which can be found here: Click here (31st) and: Click here (30th). Take a listen to the Tawny owl, which is uncommon for the region.

We are getting prepared for a night ringing session targeted at Storm Petrels (lille stormsevale), for which many birders will be waiting nearby hoping for a bit of luck to strike again. We are planning another session tomorrow night so there is a good chance we will catch at least one, but let us all hope for more.

Ringmærkning – Kabeltromlen

Munk – 3

Rødhals – 1

Havesanger – 1

Gransanger – 2

Lille Dompap – 2

Lille Gråsisken – 1

Tornsanger – 1

Jernspurv – 3

Kærsanger – 1

Løvsanger – 1

Rødstjert – 1

Rørsanger – 2

Ringmærkning (Det Grå Fyr)

Sortgrå ryle - 1

Total – 21

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Robbie Lawler , Henning Ettrup og Dorte

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We went ringing at Kabeltromlen with Henning Ettrup, unfortunately we didn’t catch a lot of bids this morning. This meant we had plenty of time to show our new Volunteer Robbie how we work and give him an introduction to bird handling. The highlights of the morning were the Wheatear (Stenpikker) and the Meadow Pipit (Engpiber).

In the afternoon I showed Robbie how to enter the ringing data and some other tasks we must do at the station, Rosalina went grocery shopping with Henning. Robbie and I went up the lighthouse for a quick break to enjoy the view and spot some birds from up there, we saw some Terns and Cormorants. Simon came back from his Sommerhaus later in the afternoon where he was for the last days, he also visited the oldest active ringer in Denmark William Carøe Aarrestrup an old friend of his.

Ringmærkning – Kabeltromlen

Munk – 4

Engpiber – 1

Stenpikker – 1

Rødhals – 1

Havesanger – 1

Gransanger - 1

Total – 9

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Robbie Lawler, Henning Ettrup og Dorte

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No ringing today but we did some observing this morning. Augustin saw a bunch of Guillemots. Not much else going on, we did however welcome a new volunteer, Robbie, who will stay with us till December. We look forward to getting to know him!

Augustin and I have been showing him around and have been preparing him for tomorrow’s ringing. We’re excited to see how it goes.

Alex Sand Frich also spotted a Lundsanger today at Ellekrattet in Skagen, pretty cool!

- No ringing today - 

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Robert Lawler, Dorte, Michael Ancher, Jørgen Kabel

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Today Dorte was shopping with her brother and went for a walk on Grenen. Augustin and I opened the nets this morning at 6 am, and though there were very few birds today, at one round a Common Snipe (Dobbeltbekkasin) stood by the nets and it got surprised to see me, so it flew away and right into the nets, which means I’ve ringed my first Common Snipe today! Not much else is going on today, but we’re excited to welcome a new volunteer tomorrow!

Late in the evening Lisa and Simon whent to the Great Snipe site south of Aalborg in the evening and where joined by Lars Bo, Esben and Karin. They succesfully manged to catch one more individual so the total this season is now four Great snipes!

Ringmærkning (Kabeltromlen)

Dobbeltbekkasin - 1

Løvsanger – 1

Gærdesanger – 1

Rørsanger – 3

Munk – 1

Haavesanger - 1

Gransanger – 1

Ringmærkning (Lindenborg, Himmerland)

Tredækker - 1

Total – 10

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Dorte, Jørgen Kabel, Lisa Vergin, Henrik Hald Nørgaard, Lars Bo Jacobsen, Karin Christiansen og Esben E. Hansen.

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Augustin’s day began at midnight when he was woken up by Anders who told him that we captured another Storm petrel! It was a recapture from Norway and there was a looooot of birdwatchers who joined us at midnight at the station to share our joy and admiration for the bird:

I was unfortunately sick today and yesterday evening, but I did however pressure myself last night to see the storm petrel – it was a really big experience. In the morning when Augustin and I woke up to close the nets, a Sanderling was caught and we ringed it before we closed the nets.

Augustin and Lisa ringed today and got two jays, and they even got caught in the same round at two different nets!

Simon did a live video at Jørgen Kabels house for the project “Fugle for Alle” that’s available to watch at their Facebook page. Today’s video was about Jørgen’s method for attracting butterflies. Check out the video to find out how he does it.

Ringmærkning (Kabeltromlen):

Skovskade – 2

Musvit – 1

Løvsanger – 2

Rødstjert – 5

Gærdesanger – 2

Rørsanger – 5

Skovpiber – 1

Jernspurv – 2

Rørspurv – 1

Munk – 4

Tornsanger – 5

Gransanger – 1

Ringmærkning  (Jennes Sø):

Gærdesmutte – 1

Jernspurv – 3

Rødstjert – 2

Solsort – 1

Rørsanger – 4

Munk – 2

Gransanger – 4

Fuglekonge – 2

Musvit – 2

Bogfinke – 1

Lille Gråsisken – 2

Ringmærkning  (Grenen)

Lille Stormsvale – 1  (Norwegian recapture)

Sandløber – 1 

Total – 56

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Lisa Vergin, Dorte, Henrik Rask, Anders Wiig Nielsen og Ib Jensen, Søren Skov, Lars Grøn, Anders Bojesen, Anders Espenhain Sørensen, Claus Brostrøm Jensen, Michael Ancher, Lars Pedersen, Agnete & Jørgen Kabel

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Rosalina and I closed the nets for the Storm Petrel (Lille Stormsvale) early in the morning at the beach, Anders and Ib helped us with that, after that we stored the nets in the lab we headed out to open the nets at Jennes Sø. We ringed there in the morning with Michel Ancher, Ellin joined us also and enjoyed her last day of ringing. Unfortunately, we didn’t catch a lot of birds. We had to leave at around ten to prepare the nets in the old lighthouse garden for a ringing tour while doing that we were informed that the tour had been cancelled so we used this opportunity to fix some of the nets.

After that Rosalina drew some bird silhouettes of birds, we have seen on observations recently on a board in the birders club at the lighthouse. I fixed some ringing equipment, prepared everything we need for tonight and finished some tasks from yesterday. Tonight, we will attempt so catch some Storm Petrels again and we will be supported by Anders and Ib like last night, hopefully with the same results.

Ringmærkning – Jennes Sø

Stor Flagspætte - 1

Rødstjert - 3

Solsort - 1

Gærdesanger - 2

Havsanger - 1

Gransanger - 9

Løvsanger - 3

Grå Fluesnapper - 1

Broget Fluesnapper - 1

Musvit - 1

Bogfinke - 2

Kvækerfinke - 1

Lille Gråsisken -4

Total – 30

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Ellin , Henrik Rask, Aders Wiig Nielsen og Ib Jensen.

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Rosalina and Ulysses opened the nets this morning at Kabeltromlen for a fun morning of ringing in the morning light. We caught our first Goldcrest (Fuglekonge) of the autumn, what a colorful little beauty! After closing the nets, the volunteers went back to the station to get a little bit of rest and to say goodbye to Ulysses, this was his last morning at the Bird Observatory, he will return home and begin is second masters degree in Zurich, Switzerland. We all wish you the best for your future studies and a lot of fun when hopefully visiting the Antarctic for your PhD. It was nice to have you here you will be missed!

In the afternoon Rosalina went to Grenen to hand out some flyers to some tourists for the Grå Fyr Museum and advertise the station while I was out at Kabeltromlen to sew some nets. In the evening the two of us and our guest Ellin set up the nets on the beach again for a new night of catching Storm Petrels (Lille Stormsvale). After that me and Simon drove to a field near Skagen to see if we could find a Great Snipe that has been seen there earlier, unfortunately we didn’t find any birds. As we were about to head to another field, we got a call from Anders and Ib, they came from Kopenhagen to watch the nets during the night for us, with the exciting news of a Storm Petrel in the nets! So we immediately drove back, on our way back to the station we picked up Lisa and I got to ring my first Sorm Petrel! It was a male from the third calendar year with similar measurements to the first one we caught a week ago.

Ringmærkning – Kabeltromlekrattet

Jernspurv – 3

Rødhals – 2

Rødstjert – 5

Rørsanger – 2

Gærdesanger – 2

Tornsanger – 3

Havesanger – 1

Løvsanger – 3

Fuglekonge – 1

Blåmejse – 1

Lille Gråsisken - 1 

Ringmærkning – Jennes Sø

Gærdesmutte - 1

Rødhals - 1

Rødsjert - 4

Solsort - 2

Rørsanger - 3

Tornsanger - 1

Gransanger - 7

Lævsanger - 5

Fuglekonge - 3

Topmejse - 1

Lille Gråsisken - 8

Ringmærkning – Grenen

Lille Stormsvale - 1

Total – 61

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Ulysse Reverre, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Ellin, , Henrik Rask Aders Wiig Nielsen og Ib Jensen.

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