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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I dag ringmærkede vi ved Kabeltromlen og deriblandt var der sæsonens første rødhals :). Derudover forberedte vi  fællesspisningen til i aften, hvor vi spiser  sammen med Det Grå Fyrs personale og venner af fuglestationen.

Ellin har været ude og købe ind med Ulysses og Augustin og de har afleveret pant for 295 kr! Og så har hun set den fine udstilling i fyrhuset.

Ulysses skal desværre hjem i morgen og har været i gang med at pakke og lave mad til i aften. Augustin har været i gang med at ringmærke og skal også lave mad til i aften

Simon hørte at Henrik Rask havde set en tredækker i industrikvarteret på Minkvej. Vi prøvede også at fange en lille stormsvale i nat, men uden held.

Ringmærkning – Kabeltromlekrattet

Rødstjert – 9

Rørsanger – 2

Gærdesanger – 1

Tornsanger – 5

Havesanger – 1

Munk – 3

Løvsanger – 2

Engpiber – 1

Skovpiber – 1

Rødhals – 1

Gulspurv – 1

Broget Fluesnapper – 1

Total – 28

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Ulysse Reverre, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Ellin, Søren Skov, Henrik Rask og Lars Grøn.

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We went ringing today and it turned out to be a successful day at Kabeltromlen. We caught 54 birds in total, a juvenile Water Rail (Vandrikse) in the last round wich was a nice surprise when we were closing the nets and 15 Redstarts (Rødstjert), this is a short period where these beautiful Passerines are the dominant species at the ringing. Rosalina practiced her extracting and ringing skills and mastered the Steel ring closing on the Water Rail on her first try! Simon found  beautiful Camberwell Beauty (Sørgekåbe) butterfly. Our guest Ellin also joined the ringing and was very interested in our work, in the afternoon she went to a local history museum in Skagen.

In the afternoon me and Simon helped the bike mechanic to get all our broken bikes to fix them. Simon visited Jorgen Kabel, he has a butterfly feeder in his garden to watch them while they are feeding. We all got a bit of rest so we are fit for another night of trying to catch Storm Petrels on the beach.

Ringmærkning – Kabeltromlenkrattet

Vandriske – 1

Jernspurv – 3

Rødstjert – 16

Kærsanger – 1

Rørsanger – 9

Gærdesanger – 3

Tornsanger – 3

Havesanger – 1

Munk – 3

Gransanger – 4

Løvsanger – 2

Blåmejse – 1

Total – 47

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Ulysse Reverre, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen og Ellin.

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I dag var vi ude og observere på Grenen. Det var en meget smuk morgen og vi så en sælunge ligge og gasse sig i morgensolen på stranden :)

Derudover var der hundredvis af små søstjerner liggende i strandkanten.

Observeringen var ikke så begivenhedsrig i dag, men jeg fik skabt lidt turisttrafik på Grenen ved at dele brochurer ud. Det viser sig at jeg vist har et gemt talent for at sælge :)

Og så fik Ulysses og Augustin repareret spejlnettene ved Kabeltromlen. Det var der trang til.

Ellin var med ude og observere og var også meget fascineret af den smukke morgen og har været på Kystmuseet i dag inde i Skagen.

Ringmærkning - Fyrhaven

Rødstjert - 1

Total - 1

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Ulysse Reverre, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen og Ellin.

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Today everyone went out observing at world’s end 3, the last dune before the tip of Grenen. A few skuas (skarv) and a lot fewer common scoters (sortand) than usual: while the numbers often amount to a few thousands, today we only observed less than 150 throughout the 4 hours.

We took the opportunity to rest during the afternoon and catch up on shopping. Bringing kilograms of pasta sauce, canned goods, and beverages back on bikes with a strong headwind was our achievement for the day!!

Lisa and Simon went to the summerhouse of Simons family at Saltum, but late evening they went for another try to catch more Great Snipes (Tredækkere) at Lindenborg. It was succesful! With two birds caught! They where joined by Hans, Esben and Niels.

Ringmærkning - Lindenborg, Himmerland

Tredækker - 2

Ringmærkning - Fyrhaven

Rødstjert - 1

Total - 3

Folk på stationen: Simon S Christiansen, Ulysse Reverre, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Lisa Vergin, Esben Sloth, Hans Christophersen, Niels Eriksen og Elin.

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