Hello everyone,

This morning, Diana, Louis and I went to open the nets in Kabeltromlem. As soon as the opening was finished, we had to close because Oluf Lou was ill and could not ring with us this morning and Simon had to leave for a few days to give lectures especially on the interest of birdwatching for the citizens. However, despite a short opening, we caught 7 birds.

Meanwhile, Aksel joined Knud at Verdens end 3 to the counting of seabirds. They saw a caspian gull (Levantmåge) and his two first long tailed ducks (havlit). On this slow day, he was able to apply his knowledge to identify kittiwake far away. After the nets were closed, Louis went for a walk at Cormorant Lake where he saw common snipes (Dobbeltbekkasin) and bearded reedlings (skægmejse). Diana and I joined Solenn, who had been resting with an eye problem, to play a game of Wingspan.

In the afternoon, Solenn worked on the night recordings made last night, Louis was resting and Aksel was preparing his applications for his master's degree. After the rain, Diana and I went into town to buy some food and enjoy a walk around town and a waffle!

At the end of the day, Aksel went for a little walk in search of mushrooms, Diana entered the data and preparing dinner. Solenn, Louis and I worked on our computers.

We also share with you Diana's talent for painting, of which she made this beautiful fieldfare for Solenn's birthday a few days ago!

Ringing at Kabeltromlem

Munk : 3

Gærdesmutte: 3

Rødhals: 1

Total: 7

Observations of the day in DOFbasn from observers in the area

People at the station : Aksel Munkholm, Louis Kristoffer Poulsen, Diana Sciandra, Solenn Boucher, Prescillia Lemesle, Simon S. Christiansen, and our guest Kirsten Bregn.

Hello everyone!

Today has been a very interesting day, in particular the ringing at Kabeltromlen has been really busy: 88 birds ringed (and, moreover, 9 recaptures). The morning started quite late because it was raining in the early morning, so me, Solenn and Louis waited to open the nets. When the opening of the nets is accompanied by many birds (saw or heard) it is always a good thing, and today it was one of those days! It was fun opening the nets (at least for me), both for the birds seen and for the work itself: it was the first day for Louis, so I explained him how to open the nets, the path to follow to complete the rounds and all the stuff related to how a ringing station works. Since the first round we were pleased to have Oluf Lou and the guest Kirsten Bregn helping ringing: we spent all together a great time. Sometimes I try to learn some Danish words, and today there were hundreds of Eurasian jackdaw (Allike) migrating so I remembered a funny sentence Simon told me: “Fuld som en Allike”, and they helped me with the pronunciation.

The two Golfinches (Stillits) we caught today: Hanelie loves them and we already miss her a lot (she returned in Germany some days ago). 

The highlight of the day was a Siberian chiffchaff (Sibirisk Gransanger, Phylloscopus collybita tristis: here some information about that bird) caught in the nets: Aksel recognized immediately it was not a normal Chiffchaff (Gransanger) and we called Simon to come to see it and him and Prescillia joined us to see it. Just an hour before the bird was caught Simon heard the same subspecies during his birdwatching walk (here the link to his recording: that subspecies can be easily recognized listening to the characteristic “sad-like” call).

I had another very good sighting, shared with Louis; a small flock of Bearded tits (Skægmejse) passed over the reeds close to some of the nets: maybe on the next days we can find them inside the nets! Louis was very happy about all the day; it is really a special feeling to have a bird in your hand for the first time; soon he will gain more confidence and he will be happy to ring! Solenn, instead, hadn’t a very cool day because in the middle of the morning her eye startd to hurt and she had to go to a doctor in Skagen: we all hope she will recover soon resting some days without doing too much effort with that eye. Prescillia, before coming to Kabeltromlen, had a very delightful morning too: she went observing at Verdens end 3 with Knud: amongst many interesting birds they saw also 8 Canada goose (Canadagås) and many Greylag goose (Grågås).

In the afternoon me and Prescillia ended with Simon the snow-bunting new traps: tomorrow we will try them! After I entered the data of the day I was really pleased to read an email from the Polish Ringing Center, reporting the history of a Caspian Gull (Kaspisk måge) with yellow ring that me and Solenn read at Grenen some days ago: it was ringed in 2019 in Poland as chick and it travelled a lot (United Kingdom, Poland and Netherlands).

Ringing (Kabeltromlen):

Sibirisk Gransanger: 1

Gransanger: 5

Fuglekonge: 7

Gærdesmutte: 10

Gråsisken, Nordlig: 8

Gråsisken, Lille: 6

Stillits: 2

Rødhals: 1

Jernspurv: 1

Dompap, Lille: 3

Dompap, Stor: 8

Dompap: 8

Rørspurv: 12

Blåmejse: 5

Munk: 5

Musvit: 9

Vindrossel: 1

Sangdrossel: 2

Total: 88

Dagens observationer kan ses her

Folk på stationen: Aksel Munkholm, Louis Kristoffer Poulsen, Oluf Lou, Diana Sciandra, Solenn Boucher, Prescillia Lemesle, Simon S. Christiansen, and our guest Kirsten Bregn.

P.S.: I am looking to someone who wants to go to see the Yellow Warbler; the bird is still in  Agger Tange and it is really stunning, but I don't have a car to reach it. Please contact me/us if you want to go! 

/!\ One of our volunteer is really keen to go see the yellow warbler but doesn't own a car. Anyone willing to go there and having a spare car seat to offer is invited to please get in touch with us !

Hi everyone,

This morning I went observing with Prescillia. While counting the 360 eiders Ederfugl resting around the bunker, I spotted a strange-looking bird and got the scope out to get confirmation from Prescillia : itw as my very first golden eye Hvinand !

We then joined Knud at World Ende 3 for three hours of shivering in the wind. The highlight of the morning was a very nice peregrine falcon Vandrefalk flying to the north west ; it stopped to rest on the beach long enough to allow us to take shaky pictures of it through our scopes (hence the bad quality picture !).

We were later joined by Aksel, Louis and Diana who finished yesterday’s beach fulmar survey, finding less than 10 seabirds including fulmar Mallemuk, gannets Sule, and alcids Alkefugle – they saw a purple sandpiper Sortgrå Ryle on the way, but the story doesn’t tell whether itw as the one we ringed... At that time I decided to take a walk to the tip to warm myself up ; I really enjoyed to see the sanderlings Sandløber trying to take shelter from the wind behind some pile of algae ! Of course, it was at that time that the team spotted a migrating red-necked grebe Gråstrubet Lappedykker and a curious weasel walking on the beach…

At the same time Simon had an interesting morning : after dropping Hanelie at the train station for her way back to Germany, he was invited to speak about the american Yellow warbler Gulsanger on  TV news ! You can find the link by clicking here (in danish).

The beach-survey team headed home shortly after joining us ; Aksel then showed Louis how everything works, as he is his mentor. Prescillia and I joined them around lunch time, where we decided to finally go see the exhibition : it took us no less than 1 month to visit the place downstairs ! We enjoyed seeing the art and explanations and invite anyone who hasn’t been there yet to hurry before the exhibition changes. We also went all the way up to the top of the lighthouse (205 stair cases, no less !), where we gazed at the landscape while the wind was making our hair fly high.

As soon as we got down, Simon made a session about skull ossification, a process still ongoing for young birds on their first autumn ; it is a very helpful age criteria for some species difficult to age based solely on their plumage, like treecreepers Trælober and goldcrests Fuglekonge. He showed us some pictures for us to know what to look for, and then we headed to the lab where we practiced our skills on birds taken out of the freezer.

After the evening meeting, Simon had another meeting about fun ways to support the station, like species sponsor opportunity ; Prescillia finished one of the new snowbunting traps, while Diana put out the sound recorder for the night, Aksel cooked a delicious meal as always and I finished my presentation for tomorrow, which hopefully we will have time to do – or should I wish instead for many birds to ring, enough to keep us busy most of the day ? Let’s see what happens tomorrow…

People at the station : Aksel Munkholm, Louis Kristoffer Poulsen, Diana Sciandra, Solenn Boucher, Prescillia Lemesle, Simon S. Christiansen, and our guest Kirsten Bregn.

Today’s observation of the area on DOFBasen

Hej allesammen

En begivenhedsrig dag her på stationen er ved at være overstået. Der har både været morgenobs, ringmærkning, mallemuk indsamling på stranden, fødselsdagsfejring, ny frivillig og meget mere.

Dagen startede for mit vedkommende med en gang morgenobs sammen med Knud ved verdens end 3. Det var en noget blæsende omgang med sand i både øjne, øre og kaffen og uden de store træktal. Det var dog stadig en rigtig god morgenobs med solskind og en god diversitet af arter. Der var en ung kaspisk måge som meget pædagogisk længe stod på stranden sammen med sølvmåger og svartbage så Knud tydeligt kunne forklare hvad de vigtigste kendetegn er. Derudover kom der i løbet af morgenen både Rødstrubet lom, gråstrubet lappedykker og toppet skallesluger forbi tæt på stranden, hvor det selv for en halvamatør som mig var nemt at spotte forskellene. Lige inden lukketid kom der også to stor korsnæb trækkende fra vandet og fik afsluttet morgenobsen på god maner.

Imens Knud og jeg holdt skansen ved verdens ende, var Hanalie, Diana, Prescillia, Kirsten og Simon ude ved kabeltromlen for at ringmærke. Vinden var kraftig i dag, så nogle af nette forblev lukket, hvilket resulteret i at der ikke kom det store antal fugle i nettene (ringmærket: 29). Lidt kan dog også gøre det, for i dag fik vi endelig 2 skovskader i nettene til stor begejstring. Dem har vi snakket om mange gang når de provokerende flyver lige hen over hoved på os ved kabeltromlen og videre ned over nettene.

Senere på dagen var det igen blevet tid til mallemukindsamling på stranden imellem gammelsagen og grenen. Her fik Diana og jeg i begyndelsen tilslutning af Simon, to medarbejdere fra naturstyrelsen og en journalist. Vi nåede dog kun til Nordstranden inden regnen havde indhentet os, og vi blev samlet op af Simon. På vejen fandt vi 3 døde mallemukker, som dog var i for dårlig tilstand til at tage med hjem. Vi fortsætter dog jagten i morgen på den resterende del af strækningen.

Solenn har også fødselsdag i dag, så det skulle også fejres! Ligeså skulle stationens nye frivillige Louis også bydes ordentligt velkommen, men vi skulle sige farvel til Hanalie, som rejser hjem i morgen efter næsten at have været her i Skagen siden februar. Vi hyggedes os derfor med fødselsdagssang, pizza, kage og fuglebingo.

Dagens observationer kan ses her

Ringmærkede fugle:
Gransanger: 7
Fuglekonge: 3
Rødhals: 2
Gærdesmutte: 4
Jernspurv: 1
Rørspurv: 2
Dompap: 1
Bogfinke: 1
Munk: 3
Blåmejse: 1
Vindrossel: 1
Sangdrossel: 1
Skovskade: 2
Total: 29

Folk på stationen: Aksel Munkholm, Louis Kristoffer Poulsen, Diana Sciandra, Hanelie Sidhu, Solenn Boucher, Prescillia Lemesle, Simon S. Christiansen, Lisa Vergin og vores gæster Kirsten Bregn og Amanda.

Good evening everyone,

The morning started for Solenn and me with opening the nets at Kabeltromle. Lisa and Simon joined for the first round. There were many birds in the area, which we already heard while waiting for the first round. We caught some of the Bullfinches “Dompap”, we had heard before, otherwise many Wrens “Gærdesmutte” and the Highlight of the morning was a Great Spotted Woodpecker “Stor Flagspætte”. Diana and Prescillia were observing at Verdens Ende 1 today. There, they could observe the passerines very well, Bullfinch “Dompap” Tits “Mejse” and Reed Bunting “Rørspurv”. But we closed the nets quite early because the Yellow Warbler “Gulsanger”, that had been seen at Agger yesterday was still there. Jørgen passed by quickly at Kabeltromle, he was going to see it with Erik and some friends and later Oluf offered us a lift and so Lisa, Simon and I could join him and Jeppe to Agger.

While we were in the car, Diana, Prescillia and Solenn went to Jennes Sø to join Michael, who was still ringing. The highlights were Treecreepers “Træløber”. And also Poul Jennes Cabel Car, that they all tried which was a lot of fun. Also Aksel, who had had a free weekend with his family and his girlfriend joined them at Jennes Sø.

Prescillia at lunch at Nordstrand today, afterwards she decided to go to Tilsandene Kirke to see the Parrot Crossbills “Stor Kornsnæb” again. Aksel and Solenn were at the Cormorant Lake today as it is the International Waterbird count this weekend. They were surprised to see a Mute Svan “Knopsvane” at Cormorant Lake and there were also Waterrails “Vendrikse” and they were happy to see Cranes “Trane”.

And afterwards, Aksel and Solenn also decided to go to Cormorant Lake and also Diana and although they all didn´t plan to meet there, all four of them met at Tilsandene Kirke in the end.  

Tilsandene Kirke

Parrot Crossbill "Stor Korsnæb"

In the afternoon, Kirsten, who I met already in September at the Bird Observatory, arrived. She will be here as guest for a week and ring with us.

But – maybe you are asking yourself already – what about the Yellow Warbler “Gulsanger” team? Oluf, Jeppe, Lisa, Simon and I spent quite some hours in the car today. We passed at some very beautiful and interesting Wetlands that I would love to explore somewhen. And finally, we arrived at Agger, where we met many birdwatchers. Erik, Jørgen and their friends were already there, and we also met Hans and Birthe.  And the most important: We all saw the Yellow Warbler “Gulsanger” very well, although it was quite difficult to see it, although it stayed in the area all the time, because it was very well hidden behind the needle twigs or leaves of bushes. So we all stayed there, staring in the tree with binoculars and camera lenses directed to the place where the bird disappeared in the twigs the last time and around where it would show up again at some point. But it was great to see it. For Simon, it was the third American Warbler he saw in Denmark. For me, it was a special last lifer for my stay here at Skagen Fuglestation.

Yellow Warbler "Gulsanger"

Because the day after tomorrow, I will take the train back to Germany, as in week 42, the winter semester at university will start and I need to go back to continue my studies.

2022, I  have been at Bird Observatories since February  and imagining not to be surrounded by a lot of keen birdwatchers and changing to another routine than the one of a bird observatory feels very strange and a bit unreal so far. I will miss the seabirds for sure, as well as ringing at Kabeltromle. It was a great time in Skagen, in which I have learned a lot, about birds, butterflies and plants, thanks to a lot of great people! Sometimes, in Skagen, the impossible seemed to get possible. For example, the Bearded Vulture “Lammergrib” which I mentioned in my first blog here in February, when I was listening to a podcast about it, never expecting to see it here, what finally happened in June! I especially enjoyed spring with all the raptors and hope to come back for raptors and ringing at Skagen sooner or later!

Until then, a great thanks to you all, take care!

Hanelie

Ringing Kabeltromle

Gærdesmutte: 10

Rødhals: 6

Stor Gråsisken: 2

Gransanger: 6

Rørspurv: 5

Dompap: 3

Lille Dompap: 2

Stor Dompap: 1

Munk: 4

Blåmejse: 4

Bogfinke: 1

Musvit: 12

Sangdrossel: 2

Solsort: 1

Stor Flagspætte: 1

Total: 60

Ringing Jennes Sø

Gærdesmutte: 3

Rødhals: 3

Gransanger: 1

Fuglekonge: 4

Blåmejse: 3

Musvit: 1

Træløber, nordlig: 1

Norlig Gråsisken: 12

Lille Gråsisken: 52

Rørspurv: 1

Total: 80

Today’s observations in Dofbasen from observers in the area

People at the station : Oluf Lou, Jeppe, Michael Anker,  Aksel Munkholm, Diana Sciandra, Hanelie Sidhu, Solenn Boucher, Prescillia Lemesle, Kirsten Bregn, Simon S. Christiansen & Lisa Vergin

Hello everyone,

Today, it was "girl power" at the station, Aksel being away with his friends and family, we were all 4. While Solenn and Diana went to observe this morning in Grenen, Hanelie and I opened the nets in Kabeltromlen. Despite the rain which forced us to close the nets early. The ringing was satisfactory, with in addition, the usual captures including a flock of of ten blue tits (Blåmejse) (mostly young birds), a new Fieldfare (Sjagger) and a recapture of Lesser Whitethroated (Gærdesanger) ringed in May 2022. This recapture allows us to deduce that this common migrant in Denmark joins its winter quarters in East Africa probably by passing by Eastern Mediterranean flyway.

Fieldfare (Sjagger)

Lesser Whitethroated (Gærdesanger)

During this time, Solenn and Diana counted seabirds before being interrupted by rain. Diana went to observe with them a potential Siberian Stonechat (Sibirisk Sortstrubet Bynkefugl). Siberian Stonechat is a species very close morphologically to European Stonechat (Sortstrubet Bynkefugl). Still considered as a subspecies of the Common Stonechat, about twenty years ago, DNA analysis allowed to separate it into a distinct species. The observed individual is a young bird which complicates the identification so in order to complete the observed criteria, DNA analyses are necessary. Thus, the team hopes to be able to capture it soon in order to take some feathers for analysis and to confirm this rare observation. Indeed, this Russian and Central Asian breeding bird is a rare bird in Denmark with only less than ten potential individuals observed in Skagen.

Siberian Stonechat (Sibirisk Sortstrubet Bynkefugl)

Picture of Erik Christophersen (Blog of Erik Christophersens)

The whole team observed this bird which I hope will end up in the nets soon!

Diana saw a Barred Warbler (Høgesanger) ringed a few weeks ago, this migrating and uncommon bird in Denmark seems to like staying in Skagen for a while.

Solenn was later observed at Cormorant Lake where she could see two water rails (Vandrikse) and Common snipes (Bekassine) which had not been seen for several days.

This afternoon, Simon and Lisa, took us to see the parrot crossbills (Stor Korsnæb) present on the parking close to Klitplantage. This species is recognizable by its thick beak unlike the Red Crossbills (Lille Korsnæb).Can you see the difference in the picture?

About ten individuals were observed with attention by the volunteers, because for most of us, it is a new species, this species living in the north of Europe far from our respective countries where the observations are rare.

At the end of the day, while Diana was preparing an excellent dinner for tonight and I was cleaning the laboratory, Solenn and Hanelie went for a last day walk. Solenn observed a Bar-tailed godwit (Lille Kobbersneppe) at Grenen while Hanelie observed more forest species in Batteriskoven (Eurasian treecreepers – Træløber-, goldcrests – Flugekonge -, bullfinch – Dompap - and great spotted whoodpecker – Stor Flagspætte) as well as a Northern Wheather (Stenpikker) near the station.

Now everyone is looking forward to tomorrow, which I hope will bring us some great surprises!

Ringing at Kabeltromle:

Gærdesmutte: 6

Rødhals:1

Solsort: 1

Sjagger: 1

Munk: 1

Gransanger: 3

Fuglekonge: 1

Blåmejse: 22

Gråsisken: 3

Dompap Lille: 2

Rørspurv: 5

Observations of the day in DOFbasn from observers in the area

People at the station : Diana Sciandra, Hanelie Sidhu, Solenn Boucher, Prescillia Lemesle, Simon S. Christiansen, Lisa Vergin and our guests Stig and Grethe

Hello everyone!

Yesterday night we tried again night-catching: it was very successful (7 birds) for the group (Aksel and Solenn) that went to Cormorant Lake, but unsuccessful for me and Prescillia. We saw some birds at the tip (Grenen), but we haven’t caught one. At least we observed different beautiful Natterjack toad (Strandtudse, Epidalea calamita).

Today was a very slow day for some of us: the wind was too strong to ring at Kabeltromlen, so we did just observations. Aksel and Solenn went at Nordstrand and they had a very good day. Many divers (more than 150, mainly Red-throated diver, Rødstrubet lom) were seen migrating and resting, moreover 3 Little gulls (Dværgmåge) and 2 Arctic skua (Almindelig kjove) passed. The Snow buntings (Snespurv) are approximately 60: we can’t wait to see them in hand! While Aksel and Solenn were having fun observing, me and Prescillia worked with the computers, at home. Hanelie needs some rest because she is a little sick and we hope she will be back 100% healthy soon.

After lunch, we looked all together a recorded-session about Red polls (Acanthis sp.): we know now how to recognize the different species, their areal and how to assess age and sex (we are ready to ring many of them now)! 

The high number of Snow buntings (Snespurv) flying near Grenen made us think about building different traps to catch them, and we spent the rest of the day doing that.

Ringing Cormorant Lake (yesterday, 06.10.2022 night)

Enkeltbekkasin : 7

Total: 7

Dagens observationer kan ses her

People at the station : Diana Sciandra, Hanelie Sidhu, Solenn Boucher, Prescillia Lemesle, Aksel Munkholm, Simon S. Christiansen, Lisa Vergin and our guests Stig and Grethe

Hi everyone,

Yesterday night was very full of surprises : Hanelie and I were catching jack snipes Enkeltbekkasin at Cormorant Lake when Simon called us off, for the very good reason that Diana and Aksel caught a purple sandpiper Sortgrå Ryle at the tip of Grenen ! This little wader usually breeds in arctic and subarctic region of Eurasia and North America, and migrates south enough in winter for all of its populations to be on ice-free grounds. There, they are closely attached to rocky islands, peninsula and other coastal sectors exposed to vigorous wave actions ; they can also be attracted by breakwaters such as the ones at Grenen, if they provide comparable conditions.

As everybody started to go head home after the birds were ringed, measured, photographed, and released, I saw Lisa running back to the lab to grab the hand net and the flashlight. “What’s going on ?”, I asked, dubious ; “We saw an owl sitting on the road, we’re going to trap it now !”, she replied. I waved them good luck and went back up ; next thing I know, Simon called us saying they trapped it. Needless to say we’ve never rushed out of the flat so fast ! (Funny story, the guests didn’t believe Simon at first when he called them to announce the good news ; fortunately Diana banged on their door to gather everybody.)

This stunning juvenile female short-eared owl Mosehornugle is the very first (of many ?) caught since the opening of the station, 5 years ago. Although short-eared owls mostly hunt at night, they are known to be diurnal and crespuscular as well, making them easier to spot than their fellow nocturnal raptor. The species has a widely spread repartition, as it is occurring on every continent, apart from Oceania and Antarctica ; northernmost populations are largely migrating south during winter, on the contrary of other more tropical population which are usually  year-round resident. Fun fact, this species’s clutch size usually ranges from 4 to 7 eggs, and can go up to 12!

After all the excitement, we got to bed quite late ; courageous Prescillia still woke up early and braved the wind to go observing at World End 3, where she spotted 3 purple sandpipers, of which none seemed to have a ring (yet). The rest of us had a bit more rest and then had separate activities ; Diana went observing at Elle Krattet while Aksel tried to fix a puncture in one of our bike’s tire and I worked on my presentation again. In the meantime, Simon had meetings with a colleague about new project to be implemented for BirdLife Denmark.

After lunch, Aksel and Diana worked on building new traps for snowbuntings, before Hanelie gave us an informative session about ageing and sexing both reed buntings Rørspurv and yellowhammers ; Simon then displayed pictures of the waders and owl caught last night for us to compare them with pictures of other individuals of different sex or age.

At the moment, Hanelie went to the tip to see the purple sandpipers while Diana, Prescillia and I share the good news on social media ; Aksel is cooking a new recipe that smells amazingly good, to give us strength for this evening’s night catching session. Let’s hope for more surprises !

People at the station : Diana Sciandra, Hanelie Sidhu, Solenn Boucher, Prescillia Lemesle, Aksel Munkholm, Simon S. Christiansen, Lisa Vergin and our guests Stig and Grethe

Today’s observations of the area on DOFBasen

Ringing :

Enkeltbekkasin : 2 (Cormorant Lake)

Sortgrå Ryle : 1 (Wolrd End 3)

Mosehornugle : 1 (Fyrhaverne)

Good evening,

today was quite slow and quiet. Already the morning started like that. Diana and I woke up to open the nets at Kabeltromle. But it was raining and so we needed to check the radar to see when the rain stopped so that we could open. We lay down on the sofa in order not to wake up the others. After a while, todays observers Aksel and Prescillia and Solenn, who wanted to join us for the first round, also got up. Soon, Simon came as well to the bird observatory. Because of the rain, some of us had a chilled breakfast, Diana and I a good bird conversation about other ringing stations in Italy as well as about irresponsible cormmertials that do not care about the environment or indangered bird species.

Finally, it looked okay to go out. When Solenn, Diana and I arrived at Kabeltromle, people from the municipality where cutting bushes there. That is nice, so we don´t need to do that. On the other hand, it was very loud and we were wondering if it would make sense to open the nets. But we did and it made a lot of sense, as it started raining while we were ringing after the first round, so we had to close again. We rang a handful of birds and went home again afterwards. Aksel and Prescillia were also out for observations for one hour. They could observe some birds very close to the beach as Guillemot „Lomvie“, and Red-throated Diver „Rødstrubet Lom”. Then, they came also back to the station. I spent the day mainly with preparing my session about Ageing and Sexing Reed Bunting and Yellowhammer in autumn, that I will give soon. Solenn also worked on her presentaition. In the afternoon, Diana and Prescillia had a walk at the beach.

Near the bird observatory at the beach, we can obserserve Rock Pipits „Skærpiber” again. And there were a lot of Reed Buntings, further inland near Grenen. Aksel and Solenn went grocery shopping and Simon had a guided tour in the area with the senior club. It was a very nice group and they were amaized of some Goldcrests ”Fuglekonge” they saw. After the evening meeting, Simon showed us how to upload sounds on xeno-canto and then we played a game where each of was immitateing a bird sound ”chrr, chrr” for Corn Crake ”Engsnarre” was especially funny. While Solenn was baking her special delicious cookies for us, Aksel, Diana and I were playing bird bingo.

I won a piece of chocolate and Aksel got a recording that he is the best player in bird bingo. After dinner, are planning to go out for nightcatching, one team to cormorant lake and onother team to Grenen. We´ll ceep you updated in tomorrows blog, it will br exciting!

See you,

Hanelie

Ringed birds at Kabeltromle:

Gærdesmutte: 1

Rødhals: 1

Rødstjert: 1

Sangdrossel: 1

Fuglekonge: 1

Total: 5

Observations of the day in DOFbasn from observers in the area

Hej derude

I dag var en dag med store forhåbninger til specielt ringmærkningen ved kabeltromlen. Solenn og jeg åbnede nettene og fik senere tilslutning af Simon, Lisa og Prescillia. Vejret var lovende og der var igen i dag rigtig mange fugle i luften. Sjældenheder såsom Sibirisk gransanger og hvidbrynet løvsanger var også blevet set/hørt i krattene ikke lang fra nettene ved kabeltromlen. Dette fik os selvfølgelig til at drømme stort. Var det i dag vi skulle have en hvidbrynet løvsanger i nettet og en dag med +100 fugle i nettene?

Det korte svar er nej. Meeeen mon ik det sker i morgen...

Selvom vores forhåbninger ikke gik opfyldelse, så havde vi stadig 56 ringmærkede fugle og en flot morgen. I løbet af morgen fik vi også besøg af et hold pædagogstuderende, som Simon introduceret til ringmærkning og senere lege hvor fugle og naturen kan inddrages.

Mens vi andre ringmærkede, så var Hanalie og Diana plantet ude ved verdens ende (grenen) for at lave morgenobs. Også ved grenen var det en halvstille dag med få fugle. De prøvede at fange snespurve og bjerglærker, dog uden held denne gang. De fik dog aflæst 7 farveringe på nogle af de rastende måger som stod på stranden. De var alle med en sort ring og er derfor ringmærket i Norge.

Eftermiddagen blev for flere af os brugt på lidt birding i området efter nogle sjove småfugle. Højdepunktet her var en sen bynkefugl, som sad og viste sig frem uden foran fyret.  

Fugle ringmærket ved kabeltromlen: 

Gransanger: 6

Fuglekonge: 5

Gærdesmutte: 10

Jernspurv: 6

Rødhals: 3

Lille Gråsisken: 1

Sortmejse: 2

Blåmejse: 11

Bogfinke: 1

Rørspurv: 2

Munk: 2

Musvit: 2

Sangdrossel: 5

Total: 56

Dagens observationer kan ses her

People at the station: Diana Sciandra, Hanelie Sidhu, Solenn Boucher, Prescillia Lemesle, Aksel Munkholm, Simon S. Christiansen, Lisa Vergin and our guests Stig and Grethe