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Busy times also on rainy days

lørdag 16. november 2019
af Judith Kloibhofer

Another stormy and rainy morning. Due to the weather the ringing was cancelled but we were still out for doing observations. Laia, Yotam Ole Zoltan and Chris started with sunrise and found a sheltered place just next to the lighthouse. The wind and rain did not prevent Chris of doing migration countings for four hours. The others came back a little bit earlier to warm themselves up. The highlights of the observations were six Little Alks (Søkonge). Furthermore, they counted a very high number of Razorbills & Guillemots (Alks & Lomvies) with 2517 in total and also the number of Red-throated Divers (Rødstrubet Lom) with 62 individuals was very good. Yotam was very happy to see so much going on over sea and saw a lot of new species for him, as there are not the same species in Israel.


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In the meantime, Esben went down to the Laboratory to fix our bird boxes. We use them during ringing when we have many birds in one round. Then we can put all birds of one species into this box and not so many bags are needed and we can ring them in one row without having to change the ring sizes. I used the indoor time to continue my work on the herbarium and managed to finish the descriptions and translations of the plants.


In the afternoon we had a children group from a hospital visiting. Of course, they were welcomed with getting ringed with a bird-bracelet. This allowed them to go up to the lighthouse and to get some additional information about the bird species that they had chosen in the exhibition. Lene explained them some general stuff about the Grey Lighthouse and also about the bird station and showed some stuffed birds and they drew some of our colouring pages of birds. To give them something with them that reminds them on this nice visit they could choose a small thing from the shop and a brochure made for kids about birds.


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After putting all the stuff back Esben, Laia, Yotam and me decided to go up the lighthouse. Yotam was very fascinated by the cool idea that the stairs are numbered and on some stairs this number is used to tell some funny facts about birds. On top of the lighthouse it was very windy but we still had a nice view around. And finally Laia managed to go up there after an already 2 months long stay.


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In the evening it’s again time to catch some Woodcocks (Skovsnepper). As we were so lucky to catch two yesterday everybody is very motivated to try it again. Esben even read in the book ‘Bird trapping and bird banding’ from Hans Bub about the best techniques. So wish us good luck that it works again.


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Our stations hosts the Danish rarity committee this weekend. After they used some time in the morning to do observations, where they found Pine Grosbeaks (Krognæb) in the city, they started their meeting. The main topics today were Brünnich’s Guillemots (Polarlomvien), Subalpine Warbler (Hvidskægget Sanger) and Pine Grosbeaks (Krognæb). And the discussions, presentations and talks are still going on and will probably last till late in the evening.


People: Simon S. Christiansen, Christian Stolz, Judith Kloibhofer, Laia Soler Iglesias, Esben Hansen, Yotam Lehnardt, Flemming & Christl, Lene Kappelborg, Rarity committee, Ole Zoltan.

Thrush (drossel) bonanza

fredag 15. november 2019
af Chris Stolz

Esben and Judith were the ones to get up early and opened the nets at Kabeltromlekrattet today - as always before sunrise. Laia and me joined later for the ringing and I did a bit of migration counts in between. Michael was out at Jennes Sø trying to catch some redpolls (gråsisken).

The highlights in our nets at Kabeltromlekrattet were the thrushes today! We got blackbirds (solsort), a redwing (vindrossel), a song thrush (sangdrossel) and, as a very rare birds in the nets, a mistle thrush (misteldrossel). From the local thrush species, only a fieldfare was missing...

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mistle thrush - misteldrossel

The misteldrossel was only the third one ringed by Skagen Bird Observatory (Skagen Fuglestation) so far. The other two were caught in 2011 and 2014.

Michael managed to catch lesser redpolls (lille gråsisken) and also some tits (mejser).

Roughly at the same time, Simon were almost driving over some waxwings (silkehale), that were drinking water from the street. He was very surprised to see them, but managed to hit the breaks in time.

Back at the observatory, we welcomed Yotam to the team! He will stay until end of the month and we are glad to have such an experienced ringer joining us. Today he came from Århus and took bus and train to get to Skagen. He was impressed by the number of buzzards (våger) he could see from the train on the fields beside the railroad.

Flemming from the café at the Grey Lighthouse is collecting stamps with birds on them from around the world and tries to take pictures of all the species in real life. If you are more interested, you can check out his facebook page here: My bird stamp - My bird photo. Judith got a letter from her familiy in Austria the other day with a white-tailed eagle (havørn) stamp on it that Flemming saw while emptying the mailbox. Judith gladly gave him the letter with the stamp and in return Flemming gave her a beautiful ringed plover (stor præstekrage) cup. Thank you Flemming!

Then we had one of our moult sessions in which we discussed some of the more interesting birds of the last weeks that we took pictures of. Among them were some tricky to age blackcaps (munk) and wrens (gærdesmutte).

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In the evening Morten, Kent, Ole and Rasmus arrived for the upcoming danish rarity committee meeting that will be hosted by us. With everyone joining, we had a large dinner provided by Simon tonight.

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While I'm writing these lines, Laia, Judith, Esben and Yotam are out trying to catch woodcocks (skovsneppe) and owls (ugler) during the night. Esben and Yotam went to the closest area around the lighthouse and saw around 8 skovsneppe and managed to catch one! Laia and Judith went to the area around the stadium in Skagen and also caught one! Good job, team!

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Ringing (Kabeltromlekrattet + Jennes Sø)

Common Blackbird - Solsort - 2
Redwing - Vindrossel - 1
Mistle Thrush - Misteldrossel - 1
Song Thrush - Sangdrossel - 1
Lesser Redpoll - Lille Gråsisken - 5
Eurasian Tree Sparrow - Skovspurv - 1
Eurasian Blue Tit – Blåmejse – 3
Great Tit - Musvit - 4

Total: 18

People: Simon S. Christiansen, Christian Stolz, Judith Kloibhofer, Laia Soler Iglesias, Esben Hansen, Yotam Lehnardt, Michael Ancher, Flemming + Christel, Jørgen Kabel + Igor, Søren Brinch, Morten Bentzon Hansen, Kent Olsen, Ole Zoltan Göllen, Rasmus Due Nielsen.

Renovating Jennes Sø

torsdag 14. november 2019
af Laia Soler Iglesias

Today Christian and I went to Kabeltrommelkrattet to open the nets. Esben joined us for the first round and Simon came just in time to see the birds we had in the nets. The morning was quite good with some ups and downs between rounds and many recaptures.
Simon did some observations and he really wanted to see an Asian Brown Flycatcher (Muscicapa dauurica) but unfortunately, he couldn't find any (it's a rarity so we weren't expecting him to find one). But the most important thing is not to give up!

Meanwhile, Judith went to do observations at Northbeach with Knud, Inger and Søren. They were able to see 8 little auks (Søkonge) and some harbour porpoises (Marsvin) among other cool birds.

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We went back to the Observatory to take lunch. At the same time, Søren Haaning's family visit us at the Observatory. After that, we headed to Jennes Sø to take the old nets down and put new ones. Now they are ready to catch a lot of birds! We will see it tomorrow when Michel Ancher will be ringing there.

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Lisa Haurum gave us some poem books about birds that are really nice, so thank you Lisa!

Ringmærkning (Kabeltrommelkrattet):

Gærdesmutte - 3
Jernspurv - 1
Blåmejse - 4
Rødhals - 4
Munk - 1

Total: 13

People: Simon S. Christiansen, Christian Stolz, Judith Kloibhofer, Laia Soler Iglesias, Esben Hansen, Inger & Knud Pedersen, Søren Haaning Nielsen & family, Lisa Haurum.

storm før stilheden

onsdag 13. november 2019
af Esben Elgaard Hansen

Vinden havde lagt sig igen efter en dag med stærkt blæst. Jeg cyklede friskt mod Nordstand for at tælle trækket ude over havet sammen med Knud. De andre skulle ringmærke inde i fyrhaven. De kvæg der grasser inde i reservatet for at holde de fældede hybenbuske nede kiggede nysgærigt. Over mig lyste fuldmånen klart og spåede om en dag med god sigtbarhed.

Dagen blev en god dag med søkonger en enkelt mellemkjove og 9 dværgmåger, 1 juvenil og 8 post juvenile. et flot træk af rødstrubet lom, mens trækbilledet af alke og lomvier var lidt forvirende da de træk i begge retninginger.

Inde i haven fik de ikke mange fugle i nettene. Der var dog stadig fugle at vise frem til den fjerde klasse som fik en rundvisning af Simon. Børnene var meget imponeret over at se en musvit blive sat fri og flyve op i den blå himmel.IMG 4176IMG 4181

Efter frokost tog Laia Judith og Chris på skovtur i Byfogedskoven.skovtur

Simon og jeg tog ind til skagen for at købe nogle klammer og en hæftepistol, til at reparere nogle af transport kasserne til fugle. Jeg var et smut inden om og se Simons lejlighed, der var MEGET rent og nydeligt!

Vi var alle nede at høre første halvleg af Sørens foredrag, om alle de flotte og vidunderlige fugle han havde set i Australien.

Ringmærkning (Fyrhaven):

1 Musvit (Great tit)

2 Rødhals (Robin)

1 Solsort (Blackbird)

2 Skovspurv (Tree sparrow)

4 Gærdesmutte (Wren)

Total 10

Folk: Simon S. Christiansen, Christian Stolz, Judith Kloibhofer, Laia Soler Iglesias, Esben Elgaard Hansen, Knud Pedersen og Søren Skov.

What a stormy day

tirsdag 12. november 2019
af Judith Kloibhofer

All of us headed out for observations in the morning. Even with a very windy weather (15m/s) we were very motivated to find some cool birds over the sea. After being unlucky with finding a sheltered place around the lighthouse we went to the Kattegat-Bunker a little bit further north. But even there it was really hard to find a calm place to seat down. We started the bird watching anyway and found a lot of Guillemots (Lomvie) and Razorbills (Alk) and some nice close Kittiwakes (Ride). The highlight was a Little Alk (Søkonge) migrating north.


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The windy and rainy weather didn’t make it easy to keep the telescope still and dry. So, I gave up early and left the others to go back in the cosy apartment. Laia was following very soon. Chris and Esben stayed out there longer, but as soon as it started raining completely they also decided to come back.


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Back at the station Chris searched for a place to continue the countings and he was happy with using the window in our entrance. So he could stay inside in the dry and warm room and was still able to see all the migrating birds over sea. At the same time Knud was out at Northbeach (Nordstrand) to do the migration counts there. His highlight was a Great Northern Diver (Islom).


After this exciting morning it was time to clean the station again. Unimaginable that it is already dirty again only after one week, but with so many diligent workers during the whole week also some dust and dirt is appearing. This time we also sorted and cleaned the attic. Nice to have more space up there after we removed all the old furniture two days ago.


We also sent the collected snails and mussels to the University of Aarhus today. We are already looking forward to hear if they find environmentally dangerous chemicals in their bodies. As they are filter feeders they aggregate these substances out of the water in their body.


 People: Simon S. Christiansen, Christian Stolz, Judith Kloibhofer, Laia Soler Iglesias, Esben Hansen, Knud Pedersen.

Mick SJagger

mandag 11. november 2019
af Chris Stolz

We ringed at Kabeltromlekrattet, Grenen today. One of the highlights of the day was the first mealy redpoll (nordisk gråsisken) for this area. In contrast to the two last years, this autumn the dominating redpolls were lesser redpolls, so we were happy to take a closer look at the mealy redpoll we caught.

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Mealy redpoll (stor gråsisken)

We also caught a bullfinch ssp. pyrrhula (stor dompap) and an adult bullfinch ssp. europea (lille dompap) - almost all bullfinches we had so far were first year birds of the European subspecies, so the two birds were also special.

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Wing of adult bullfinch (dompap)

Finally we had two fieldfares (sjagger) which are always a cool bird to have in the hand and were named "Mick Sjagger" by Esben.

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Judith and Esben went back to the Grey Lighthouse a little earlier to collect the last couple of dogwhelks (purpursnegl), that we didn't manage to find last night.

The afternoon was full of indoor work for the team. We are busy with wrapping up the year and organising the next years events and tours.

The pine grosbeak (krognæb) are still the most sought-after species around Skagen. Up to 8 have been seen at the graveyard, 5 at the white lighthouse (hvidfyr), 12 at Anchers Hus and 4 overflying Ellekrattet. Knud was out looking for them during midday after a quick late morning seawatch at Grenen. There he observed 3 little auks (søkonge) - an always welcomed sight. Flemming also used his free Monday to hunt some pine grosbeaks (krognæb) in town. Read his humorous story of how to befriend fellow bird photographers here (in Danish):

At gøre sig uheldig bemærket som fuglefotograf.
Af Flemming Quist.

Den sidste uges tid har der været krognæb-bonanza i Danmarks nordlige regioner, og Skagen har tiltrukket fuglefotografer i stil med Klondikes tiltrækning af guldgravere i fortidens Amerika.
Krognæb mæsker sig i rønnebær og et godt sted at fotografere dem er Assistens Kirkegården i Skagen, hvor der er en allé af netop røn, og hvor grenene er tunge af de røde, saftige bær. Mandag besluttede jeg mig for også at kaste mig ud i guldgraver-hysteriet efter krognæb. Da jeg trådte ind på kirkegården, havde jeg tilsyneladende ramt en åre med det samme, idet der stod 5 – 6 fuglefotografer, heriblandt Knud Pedersen, men deres bazooka-lignende isenkram rettet op mod kronen af en røn. Det var tydeligt, at der var en flok af de eftertragtede karrygule og røde fugle, som mæskede sig på rønnebær.
Problemet var, at jeg kom fra den forkerte side. Fuglene var mellem mig og fotograferne. Jeg spiller i en anden liga, end de bedste fuglefotografer – både hvad angår dygtighed og udstyr, og jeg ønskede på ingen måde at forstyrre dem. For ikke at skræmme fuglene op, begav jeg mig på en større omvej rundt om flere grave for at komme på skudhold af fuglene fra den rette side. Jeg forsøgte mig tålmodigt med fjerlette fodtrin, så mine små 100 kg knirkede så lidt så muligt på kirkegårdens grus. Meter for meter kom jeg tættere på træet og fuglene. Ydmygt fik jeg mig anbragt bag de andre fotografer, selvom jeg med mit udstyr burde være tættere på. Faktisk stod jeg lige under nabo-rønnen i alléen. Jeg nåede at klikke nogle enkelte fotos af over skulderne på de andre, før flokken pludselig lettede og satte sig i træet lige over mig. Den nærmeste fugl – en smuk han klædt i rødt og gråt - var kun en meter fra mig.

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Alle 5 – 6 fuglefotografer snurrede rundt og havde pludselig front mod mig. De rettede deres tunge isenkram over mit hoved. Jeg var frosset i en akavet stilling, men turde dårligt røre mig, for ikke at skræmme fuglene væk. ”Bliv stående, bliv stående”, lød det fra Knud. ”Jeg optager video af dig og krognæb!” Fotografernes kameraer klikkede som maskingeværer. Da jeg synes, at jeg havde været model tilpas længe, forsøgte jeg med astronaut-langsomme bevægelser at rette mig op fra min ubehagelige stilling under kronen, tage et skridt bagud og uendelig forsigtigt rette mit kamera opad.
SÅ RINGEDE MIN TELEFON! Med en brusende lyd lettede flokken af krognæb og forsvandt i det fjerne. Et par løsrevne blade faldt i duvende bevægelser fra træet og lagde sig til rette på grusstien. ”Hvad så? Får du fotograferet nogle fugle?” Ville Christel vide.
Da jeg slukøret luskede ud fra kirkegården, følte jeg ikke blot, at fuglefotograferne men også enkelte af gravenes rundkindede engle skulede ondt efter mig.

The day ended with an unsusual evening dinner, as the team of the observatory decided to dine outside. Unfortunately the first choice restaurant was closed, but the in lieu thereof chosen Italian pizzeria was a perfect alternative.

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Ringing (Kabeltromlekrattet)

Goldcrest - Fuglekonge - 1
Eurasian Wren - Gærdesmutte - 2
European Robin - Rødhals - 1
Eurasian Bullfinch ssp. europea - Lille Dompap - 2
Eurasian Bullfinch ssp. pyrrhula - Stor Dompap - 1
Dunnock - Jernspurv - 1
Mealy Redpoll - Nordlig Gråsisken - 1
Fieldfare - Sjagger - 2

Total: 11

People: Simon S. Christiansen, Christian Stolz, Judith Kloibhofer, Laia Soler Iglesias, Esben Hansen, Knud Pedersen, Flemming & Christel, Anders Østerby, Søren Brinch

A NON-STOP day

søndag 10. november 2019
af Laia Soler Iglesias

Judith and Anders went to open the nets at Kabeltrommelkrattet. And a few minutes later Esben joined them for the first round followed for Pernille and Simon. Judith's friends also came to visit the ringing after the first round.

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Pernille was really fond of seeing the Treecreeper (Træløber) and taking a close look.

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Picture by Anders Brinkmann.

At the same time, Christian and I were on our way to do observations at Verdens Ende 1. The morning started quite busy but it slowed down around 10:00h. We divided our main focus and, while Christian was doing mainly countings of birds on land, I was counting seabirds. Some of the highlights of today were the over 2300 Guillemot/Razorbill (Lomvie/Alk), some Pine Grosbeaks (Krognæb) and many Finches (Finker).

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Christian and Esben went back early because they had a guided tour (Life Tour). Pernille also joined the tour where there were 18 people attending it in total.

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Picture by Pernille Roed.

Then I came back to the Observatory and I started to do some indoor work. Judith and Anders came back a bit later than me so we started eating lunch together. All the others started to join lunch when they arrived.

After eating, we started to do indoor tasks through all afternoon. In between, Anders, Simon and Pernille left. So, we hope you had a nice trip back home!

A few hours later, we started to take stuff from the attic that has to be moved away tomorrow. Some of the work done can be seen in the following pictures.

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We had a good dinner.

And, afterwards, we were ready to collect the snails and the seashells by the seashore for a on-going study by Aarhus Universitet researchers.

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While doing that we saw a lot of isopods, sea snails, a few sea stars and a crab.

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All this work lasted until 24:00h leaving us exhausted and ready to go to bed. 

Ringmærkning (Kabeltrommelkrattet, Jennes Sø):

 

Blåmejse - 8

Munk - 4

Rødhals - 2

Skovspurv - 1

Nordlig Gråsisken - 2

Lille Gråsisken - 25

Nordlig Træløber - 1

Dompap - 1

Jernspurv - 1

Gærdesmutte - 2

Solsort - 2

Vindrossel - 1

 

Total: 52

 

People: Simon S. Christiansen, Christian Stolz, Judith Kloibhofer, Laia Soler Iglesias, Esben Elgaard Hansen, Anders Brinkmann, Penille Roed, Michael Ancher, Erik Christophersen, Alex Sand Frich

Genfund af ringmærkede krognæb

lørdag 9. november 2019
af Pernille Roed

I dag delte vi os op i to hold. Judith, Anders og Esben tog ud til Verdens ende for at observere. Her så de blandt andet suler, Silkehaler og Kværkerfinker. Anders tog senere til Ellekrattet og til Nordstrand, hvor han også fik set  snespurve og sandløbere

Laia, Christian og jeg ringmærkede i Fyrhaven og i fyrets egen have. Christian blev meget glad for at se, at der var en Vindrossel i et af nettene, da det er hans yndlingsfugl. Det var første gang, jeg sådan rigtigt var med til at ringmærke. Indtil nu har jeg kun observeret ringmærkningerne. Men i dag fik jeg lov til at nedskrive fuglenes data samt slippe dem fri efter endt ringmærkning. Det var ret spændende for mig – især at lære at holde fuglene ”rigtigt”. 

Michael ringmærkede også ved Jennesø, hvor der blev sat ring på 34 lille gråsiskn og 10 stor gråsisken. Særligt i år har lillegråsisken været dominerende sammenlignet med stor gråsisken. 

Imens vi ringmærkede, kom der meldinger ind på Zello om, at der var set flokke med krognæb ved Det Hvide Fyr og på kirkegården. Simon og jeg tog ned til Det Hvide Fyr for at se dem. Der var mange fuglekiggere, der havde fået samme idé. Krognæbene sad i et rønnebærtræ overfor fyret, og det var lige før, at trafikken helt stoppede, fordi der var så mange, der gerne ville se dem / fotografere dem. En af fuglekiggerne kom og viste os et billede, han havde taget på kirkegården af et krognæb. Fuglen var ringmærket, og det viste sig at være det første krognæb, vi i år havde ringmærket på fuglestationen.

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Også på Hvide Fyrvej, er der blevet fotograferet en Krognæb med ring.

Krognaeb Erik Christophersen. Det Hvide Fyr

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Tak til Allan og Erik for at fotografere de ringmærkede krognæb og sende billederne til os, så vi nu ved de stadig er i området.

Vi gik tilbage til fyret langs klitterne, hvor vi så et lille firben i sandet. Simon satte den hen i nogle buske ved et sommerhus – vi håber, det overlever.

FirbenMarkfirben som gerne skulle være på vej i vinterhi.

Efter frokost reparerede Judith og Esben det sidste net fra Ellekrattet, og Christian gjorde trappen ren. Det sidste var ret tiltrængt, for vi havde slæbt en del sand med ind. Sidst på eftermiddagen så Simon en skovhornugle på vej ud til fyret, og Judith fik besøg af nogle venner. De gik en tur ud til Grenen, og senere hjalp de Judith og Christian med at lave aftensmad. De blev og spiste med os på fyret. Det var rigtigt hyggeligt.

AftensmadEfter aftensmaden lavede vi lidt forskellige ting. Nogle forberedte morgendagens tur, og andre var på stranden for at samle blåmuslinger og purpursnegle, som skal sendes til Aarhus universitet.

Ringmærkning (Fyrhaven+Jennesø):

1 Blåmejse (blue tit)

2 Rødhals (Robin)

5 Grønirisk (Greenfinch)

1 Vindrossel (Redwing)

2 Musvit (Great tit)

37 Lille gråsisken (lesser redpoll)

10 Nordlig gråsisken ( Mealy Redpoll

2 Gærdesmutte (Wren)

1 Fuglekonge (Goldcrest)

Total 14

Folk:Simon S. Christiansen, Christian Stolz, Judith Kloibhofer, Laia Soler Iglesias, Esben Elgaard Hansen,  Anders Brinkmann, Penille Roed, Michael Ancher, Erik Christophersen og Allan Paade.

Regnvejrsdag i november

fredag 8. november 2019
af Pernille Roed

I dag vågnede vi op til en regnvejrsdag, så den eneste, der var ude at observere i dag, var Christian. Det viste sig at være en god ide, for da han stod ved fyret, fløj tre små Søkonger (Little Auks) over ham. Judith nåede også at se dem, hvilket hun var meget glad for, da hun aldrig har set Søkonger før. Derudover så han to Havlitter (Long Tailed Ducks) tæt på.

Vi andre brugte regnvejrsdagen på at reparere de net, som vi tog ned i Sardinkrattet i tirsdags. Det tog det meste af formiddagen, og Esben og Judith arbejdede videre på dem sidst på eftermiddagen, så vi blev næsten færdige med alle nettene.

Micheal ancher ringmærkede ved Jennesø, hvor en flok på 13 musviter gik i nettet. 

Efter frokost tog jeg ind til Skagen for at købe ind til aftensmaden, og senere løb jeg en tur i området omkring Grenen og fyret – noget jeg virkelig havde set frem til. Da det ud på eftermiddagen klarede op, satte Chris, Judith, Laia og Anders 2 net mere op i Fyrhaven. Esben fik besøg af sine forældre, som havde kage med til eftermiddagskaffen. Det blev vi glade for. 

Senere ankom Anders, som skal være her indtil søndag. På vej ud til fyret så han 7 Korsnæb (Pine Grosbeaks)– 2 hanner og 5 hunner. Efter at han havde pakket ud, tog han ud på havobservation.

Efter aftensmaden delte vi os op i to hold. Anders, Esben og Christian tog til Skagen Klitplantage for at lede efter Skovsnepper (Woodcock). De fandt en enkelt, men det lykkedes desværre ikke for dem at fange den. Udover Skovsneppen så de 2 Dobbeltbekkasiner (Common Snipe) og 1 Skovhornugle (Long-eared Owl) / Mosehornugle (Short-eared Owl).

Laia og jeg tog til stranden, Kabeltrommelkrattet og Sandormesporet for at lede efter Snespurve (Snow Bunting) og Bjerglærker (Horned Lark). Vi fangede heller ikke noget, men vi så 8 sæler på Sælklippen.

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Simon var til møde i Aalborg det meste af dagen, men han kom tilbage til fyret ud på aftenen. 

Ringmærkning (Jennes Sø):

Blåmejse - 3

Musvit - 13

Rødhals - 1

Bogfinke - 1

Total: 18

Folk: Simon S. Christiansen, Christian Stolz, Judith Kloibhofer, Laia Soler Iglesias, Esben Elgaard Hansen, Pernille Roed, Anders Brinkmann og Michael Ancher.

 

 

Public outreach course

torsdag 7. november 2019
af Chris Stolz

Esben and Judith went out for migration counts from Worlds End 1 this morning. Their highlights were again pine grosbeaks (krognæb) - this time 5 birds and 10 two-barred crossbill (hvidvinget korsnæb).

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At the same time, Laia and me were ringing at the lighthouse gardens (fyrhavene). We started the winter feeding and played calls of greenfinches (grønirisk) to attract birds. It worked quite well and we caught greenfinches (grønnirisk), sisken (grønsisken) and tree sparrows (skovspurv).

Both observations and ringing had to stop a little earlier today, because we had an course about public outreach at the observatory. We began with discussing the aims and audience for our outreaches and created new games and activities for our ringing tours. We were also learning Simons favourite dilemma game. After lunch, public outreach via social media was on the agenda.

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The evening was filled with our daily data punching (ringing data, observations) and while Esben was cooking, Laia and me went out for nightcatching. We aimed for woodcocks (skovsneppe), but didn't find any. A greylag goose (grågås) was calling closeby, so we followed the sound to investigate. There was a little lake with the goose and some roosting thrushes (drossel), but we never came close to those because of high water in the area. With wet feed we went back to the observatory to enjoy a nice dinner.

Ringing (Fyrhavene):

Common Blackbird - Solsort - 1
Eurasian Siskin - Grønsisken - 3
European Greenfinch - Grønirisk - 3
Eurasian Tree Sparrow - Skovspurv - 2
Eurasian Wren - Gærdesmutte - 5
European Robin - Rødhals - 1
Redwing - Vindrossel - 3

Total: 18

People: Simon S. Christiansen, Christian Stolz, Judith Kloibhofer, Laia Soler Iglesias, Esben Elgaard Hansen, Stine, Pernille Roed, Andreas, Nikolaj & Simon, Jan Svejgaard Jensen, Rie Voetmann.


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