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Busy day full of birds

tirsdag 6. oktober 2020
af Martin Grienenberger

Unusual schedule today since it was raining this morning. We still woke up at 6 to check for the weather and decide how the day would go. The weather forecast was predicting rain until 8:00 and 30 min from 09:30.

We decided not to go ringing right away in the morning so we don’t have to close the nets during our session. We therefore went birdwatching  instead until the rain stops.
We went to Buttervej and Højen Fyr to check for some migrants and we were quite happy to find a lot of birds there ! According to Simon, there never has been so many birds in that area ! Goldcrests (Fuglekonge)were calling from every bushes, Chaffinches (Bogfinke) and Greenfinches (Grønsisken) were feeding, flying over us, and a hell lot of Wrens (Gærdesmutte) “wrening” around. Simon found a odd looking brown warbler which turned out to be a classical Chiffchaff (Gransanger). It made his heart beating faster though, him being eager to find a Radde’s Warbler (Schwarzsanger). The rarest bird to be found this morning was a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Lille Flagspætte). Unfortunately, I was the only to see it and I couldn’t share it with Amelie and Simon. This species is really rare here in Skagen, not even yearly, with previous records being from 2020, 2018 and 2016. On our way back, we made a quick stop at Grenen Stald to look for the Turtle Dove (Turtledue) but it didn’t show up. Amelie still enjoyed that stop and made herself a new friend.

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When the rain stopped at 10, Amelie and I went opening the nets, quickly joined by Kirsten, Oluf and then Simon. Even though it was already late in the morning, birds were really active and each of our rounds were super busy ! The most numerous species was the Goldcrest (Fuglekonge).
Kirsten was really happy about her session since she felt more confortable in handling and exctracting birds, nicely helped by the team.
Simon left us earlier since he had a meeting to attend with Kristina, which was dealing about a project involving yound children.
Today again, we caught another Norwegian recapture, this time a young male Blackcap (Munk).

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Amelie and Simon went again to Batteriskoven to catch the 2 long staying Pink-footed Geese (Kortnæbbet Gås), and they managed to get really close to them this time, at less than 5 meters from them ! But 5 meters is not close enough and the Geese escaped. This story will go on tomorrow again and maybe our motivated catchers will find a good trick to catch them !

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Esben is joining us tonight, and will go nightcatching as he always does ! Which resulted in the 3rd Jack Snipe this season

Ringmærkning (Kabeltromlen):

Blåmejse - Blue Tit – 17

Bogfinke – Chaffinch – 3

Dompap – Bullfinch - 3

Fugelkonge – Goldcrest - 13

Gærdesmutte -Wren - 17

Gransanger - Chiffchaff – 24

Lille Gråsisken – Lesser Redpoll – 1

Jernspurv - Dunnock – 3

Munk - Blackcap – 27

Musvit – Great Tit - 9

Rødhals - Robin – 35

Rødstjert – Redstart - 1

Rørspurv - Reed Bunting - 8

Sangdrossel - Song Thrush – 1

Solsort – Blackbird - 1

Sortmejse - Coal Tit – 3

Stor Flagspætte – Great Spotted Woodpecker – 2

Træløber, Nordlig – Treecreeper - 1

Total: 169

Ringmærkning (Night catching at Grenen):

Enkeltbekkasin – Jack Snipe - 1

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People: Martin Grienenberger, Amelie Zeller, Christina Stinn, Simon S. Christiansen, Oluf Lou, Kirsten, Kristina Sonderkjaer

3 foreign recaptures today!

mandag 5. oktober 2020
af Amelie Zeller

Last night, Simon, Laila and I went out to Grenen Sø and some other places to try and catch some Jack Snipes (Enkeltbekkasin), Lapland Buntings (Lapland Longspur) and a Pink-footed Goose (Kortnæbbet Gås). We didn’t catch the birds, but we had lots of fun and saw some deer and this cute hedgehog on our way.

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In the morning we had to wake up early again, but it was worth it. Already before the first round we had the feeling that it will be a busy day and started ringing even before sunrise.

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We were happy to catch three foreign recaptures today!

Blackcap (Munk) from Stravanger, Norway:

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Robin (Rødhals) from Stravanger, Norway:

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Goldcrest (Fuglekonge) from Stockholm, Sweden (Picture: Jørgen Kabel):

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It was good to have some friends at the ringing station: We were glad Jørgen and Laila could help us at writing today. Oluf, as always was helping us a lot for extracting and ringing so many birds today. Kirsten is also looking forward to this week and hopefully she can practise a lot of handling and extracting of birds.

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Igor was also here and as usual in the spotlight at the ringing station :) after the birds, of course…

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Isn’t he just the best?

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Ringmærkning (Kabeltromlen):

Blåmejse - Blue Tit – 17

Bogfinke – Chaffinch – 3

Dompap – Bullfinch - 3

Fugelkonge – Goldcrest - 13

Gærdesmutte -Wren - 17

Gransanger - Chiffchaff – 24

Lille Gråsisken – Lesser Redpoll – 1

Jernspurv - Dunnock – 3

Munk - Blackcap – 27

Musvit – Great Tit - 9

Rødhals - Robin – 35

Rødstjert – Redstart - 1

Rørspurv - Reed Bunting - 8

Sangdrossel - Song Thrush – 1

Solsort – Blackbird - 1

Sortmejse - Coal Tit – 3

Stor Flagspætte – Great Spotted Woodpecker – 2

Træløber, Nordlig – Treecreeper - 1

Total: 169

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People: Martin Grienenberger, Amelie Zeller, Christina Stinn, Simon S. Christiansen, Oluf Lou, Jørgen & Igor, Laila, Kirsten

Jack Snipes!

søndag 4. oktober 2020
af Christina Stinn

Today it was too rainy and windy to go ringing or migration counting. We enjoyed an indoor day and performed the ever-present administrative tasks regarding bird ringing, including checking data sheets and entering data.

Martin detected song thrushes and redwings in his nocturnal sound recordings. Hopefully, the next few days will yield more bird calls when the wind decreases. Martin also worked on the European Bird Watch (EBW) data from yesterday and sent the records from two Danish bird observatories to Slovakia. Soon we will have the results from all European bird observatories – so stay tuned, we will let you know how many millions of birds were recorded across the continent yesterday!

In the afternoon Mortne Bentzon donated a box of beer for us. Will come in handy when celebrating the next rare bird! Thank you Morten!

Esben went home today. He had come here wanting to ring a lot of birds, but the weather didn’t cooperate all week, so he had few opportunities. However, he went night catching every night during his stay with us and made everyone very happy last night when he brought back not just one, but TWO Jack Snipes (Enkeltbekkasin)! These are the first Jack Snipes (Enkeltbekkasin) caught at Skagen Fuglestation.

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Tonight Simon and Amelie will go out night catching together and are hoping for more Jack Snipes (Enkeltbekkasin) or a Pink-footed Goose (Kortnæbbet Gås). Now wouldn’t that be amazing!

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People: Martin Grienenberger, Amelie S. Zeller, Christina Stinn, Simon S. Christiansen, Esben Elgaard Hansen, Ole Shruppeltrang, Morten Bentzon Hansen, Kirsten

And another record !

lørdag 3. oktober 2020
af Martin Grienenberger

For today, I’m very tempted to write you the exact same blog post as I did yesterday. It seems that the day just went in the same fashion as yesterday !

The wind remained too strong to even think about opening the nets, so we had again to cancel our session…
Amelie and I went to Nordstrand again to monitor the seabirds migration. The birds were once again in a record mood, and we witnessed a great day for Teals. We counted 248 of them, which sets a new record for a daily count in autumn in Skagen. The previous records were 200 resting birds at Skarvsøen on the 6th of September 2014 and 162 birds migrating east, 10 west and 21 resting on the 15th of September 1995.  The Velvet Scoters were less numerous compared to yesterday but still in good numbers with no less than 239. It’s interesting to note the significant part of males, around 60 % for today, which felt considerably lower than the previous days. Unfortunately, we didn’t make a separate count for both sexes and only our feeling will remain.

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Today was the EuroBirdwatch day, and Skagen Bird Observatory was of course part of this major event. EuroBirdwatch (formerly known as the European Birdwatch) is BirdLife International’s annual festival of events which invites all citizen members from all over Europe to get out, observe, explore and enjoy birds. EuroBirdwatch is part of World Birdwatch – a global initiative established over 10 years ago. The goal is to encourage as many people as possible to go birdwatching over one weekend, and to record sightings of as many as possible of the world’s 10 000 bird species.

Since it’s the weekend, we had a few people paying us lovely visits : Michael Ancher, Pernille and Morten Bentzon (from netfugl.dk).

Ringmærkning (Nordstjernevej)

Rodhals - Robin - 2

Bogfinke - Chaffinch - 1

Total : 3

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People: Martin Grienenberger, Amelie Zeller, Christina Stinn, Simon S. Christiansen, Esben Elgaard Hansen, Michael Ancher, Erik Christophersen, Jørgen Kabel & Igor, Pernille Roed, Morten Bentzon Hansen

Record days !

fredag 2. oktober 2020
af Martin Grienenberger

Strong easterly winds mean no ringing… Unfortunately, with no less than 14 m/s, we had to cancel our ringing session in Kabeltromlen from this morning. Esben wanted to try to catch some birds in the lighthouse garden  instead but quickly decided that it was a lost cause when he looked out of the window early this morning.

Christina and I went for migration counting, but instead of going to World’s End 3, we went to Nordstrand to get a better shelter in the dunes. As yesterday, we witnessed an amazing migration of Velvet Scoters ! We counted this morning 512 of them, added to the 662 from yesterday. This constitutes then an unprecedented passage for Skagen. The last big movements of this kind occurred in 1987, with 430 and 579 birds going east on the 17th and 18th of March. A more recent observation of good numbers of migrating Velvet Scoters during autumn happened on the 26th of September 2017 with 446 birds going South-east. We’re looking forward to tomorrow to see how many more Velvet Scoters we’ll see !

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Considering the weather, Amelie took a day off to get some rest and a late morning sleep (she woke up at 7 ;-). She used her day working on a document she needs to write for her University, which deals with her stay here and how she’s involved in the Bird Observatory. She also went to town and enjoyed a little shopping time, without forgetting to wear a facemask, a must-do during these corona times ...

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Simon had on his side a busy administrative day with a few meetings. He also worked on a new project he will build with Kristina and will be about getting children into nature.

Esben was again working on his engineering courses and will try again to catch some cool birds tonight. Let’s hope he will be successful!

Michael Ancher was out ringing, braving the winds at Jennes Sø and caught a few birds. Results are just below.

Ringmærkning (Jennes Sø):

Musvit – Great Tit - 2

Gærdesmutte - Wren - 1

Jernspurv – Dunnock - 1

Munk - Blackcap - 1

Rødhals - Robin - 3

Solsort – Blackbird - 1

Total: 9

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People: Martin Grienenberger, Amelie Zeller, Christina Stinn, Simon S. Christiansen, Esben Elgaard Hansen, Kristina Sønderkjær, Mette & Sven, Michael Ancher

hyggelig ringing day :)

torsdag 1. oktober 2020
af Amelie Zeller

Simon, Christina and I had a nice morning at the ringing station at Kabeltromeln today. It wasn’t as busy as the days before, but we still caught a good number of birds. Jørgen, Igor and Lars Grøn also came by for visiting. Because we didn’t have so many visitors today, Christina and I could work on improving our ageing and sexing skills.

Igor, sleeping after some exhausting days with many birds at the ringing station:

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Martin was counting seabirds at World’s End 3, which was quite difficult today because of the rather strong wind from East. But he still counted Gannets (Sule), a Little Auk (Søkonge) and over 600 Velvet Scoters (Fløjlsand)!

In the afternoon Simon and the volunteers had a little session at the office. We showed him some pictures of difficult birds we ringed last week while he was in Ottenby and discussed about the age and sex of the individuals. After that we checked and entered ringing data from today.

Our guests Mette and Sven and took a long walk (19.000 steps!) in the forest at the Tilsandede Kirke.

Esben was studying with some friends from university today and will cook dinner for us tonight. Later in the night we will go and try catch birds again at Grenen. Yesterday, Kristina, Esben and I got quite close to some Mallards (Gråand), but they unfortunately flew off, before we could put the net on them. We hope for some more luck tonight…

Ringmærkning (Kabeltromlen):

Fuglekonge – Goldcrest - 14

Gærdesmutte - Wren - 4

Jernspurv – Dunnock - 1

Sangdrossel – Songthrush - 1

Munk - Blackcap - 5

Blåmejse - Blue Tit - 2

Rødhals - Robin - 14

Rørspurv - Reed Bunting – 3

Solsort – Blackbird - 1

Total: 45

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People: Martin Grienenberger, Amelie Zeller, Christina Stinn, Simon S. Christiansen, Esben Elgaard Hansen, Kristina Sønderkjær, Jørgen Kabel & Igor, Mette & Sven, Lars Grøn

Første ringmærkning - og ingen delfin i sigte !

onsdag 30. september 2020
af Kristina Sønderkjær
Amelie, Christina og Martin åbnede nettene fra morgenstunden. Efter gårsdagens dag med 128 fugle og en sjældenhed af en Blåstjert i nettet, var det med forventning om en travl dag med mange fugle og måske også sjældenheder. Rygtet om en Blåstjert havde spredt sig, og bemærkelsesværdigt var fremmødet ved Kabeltromlen også udover det sædvanlige. Fuglene som blev ringmærket var en god varition af forskellige fugle, og blandt andet Stillits, Sangdrossel, Stor Flagspætte, Gransanger, Blåmejser, Fuglekonger, Jernspurv, Kværkerfinke var at se under dagens ringmærkning.

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Jeg nyder at være tilbage i Skagen efter en forkølelse, og hvad er bedre end at starte ud med at ringmærke sin egen første fugl! Selfølgelig med guidet udførelse af supervisorer Esben og Christina!

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Efter dagens rigmærkning tog Esben, Simon og jeg på havnen for at lede efter den stripede delfin, men desværre uden held. 

Men turen bød på en tur til den lokale slagter, hvor Simon og Esben kunne få en håndfrikadelle til turen tilbage. 

Eftermiddagen har budt på dataindtjekning, artikelskrivning og afslapning. 

Til aften har vores søde gæster Mette og Sven kokkereret en lækker lasagne som vist var et hit blandt alle! 

People: Martin Grienenberger, Amelie S. Zeller, Christina Stinn, Kristina Sønderkjær, Simon S. Christiansen, Oluf Lou, Knud Pedersen, Jørgen & Igor, Mette & Sven, Søren Skov, Esben m.f. 
 
Kabeltromlen

Blåmejse - 15
Bogfinke - 2
Fuglekonge - 1
Gransanger - 7
Lille Gråsisken - 1
Jernspurv - 4
Kvækerfinke - 1
Munk - 6
Musvit - 2
Rødhals - 15
Rørspurv - 4
Sangdrossel - 3
Sortmejse - 2
Stillits -1
Stor Flagspætte - 1
Grand Total 65
 

Red-flanked bluetail!

tirsdag 29. september 2020
af Christina Stinn

What an exciting day! Amelie and I opened the nets at Kabeltromlen with almost clear skies. After several cloudy days with little sun, it was already the perfect start to another busy ringing day. We caught over 130 birds with Martin and Oluf, mostly Robins (Rødhals), Goldcrests (Fuglekonge), and Blue tits (Blåmejse). In fact, we were still extracting birds from the bags from the previous round when two of us had to leave to check the nets again. It's days like these we like - after all, how can you ever have too many birds?

What made this day extra special was a bird that has only been caught twice in Skagen in the past: A red-flanked bluetail (Blåstjert) – how exciting!

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Other highlights of the day were two Siberian chiffchaffs:

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A few days ago, a Striped dolphin (Stribet delfin) found its way into the harbor in Skagen and has been making its rounds in front of the fish restaurant ever since. It is rare to see this species here, so it has been attracting a lot of attention. We hope that it will find its way out into the open sea again at some point.

In the afternoon we were busy entering data, checking sheets, and preparing more boxes for tomorrow. We are hoping for another busy ringing day (perhaps with more rarities?) and are happy that we are getting reinforcements: Simon is returning from Sweden tonight and is bringing Esben with him, so that will be fun!

Ringmærkning (Kabeltromlen):

Blåstjert - Red-flanked bluetail: 1

Fuglekonge - Goldcrest: 12

Gæ­rdesmutte - Eurasian wren: 2

Jernspurv - Dunnock: 5

Sangdrossel - Songthrush: 2

Munk - Eurasian blackcap: 7

Hvidbrynet Løvsanger - Yellow-browed warbler: 1

Gransanger - Chiffchaff: 7

Sibirisk Gransanger - Siberian Chiffchaff: 2

Sortmejse - Coat tit: 8

Blåmejse - Blue tit: 15

Musvit - Great tit: 7

Rødhals - European robin: 46

Lille Gråsisken - Lesser redpoll: 2

Rørspurv - Reed bunting: 11

Total: 129

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People: Martin Grienenberger, Amelie S. Zeller, Christina Stinn, Simon S. Christiansen, Oluf Lou, Knud Pedersen, Jørgen & Igor, Mette & Sven

Robins, Robins, Robins!

mandag 28. september 2020
af Amelie Zeller

When Oluf arrived this morning for the first ringing round at 7:15, he was very excited because he had just seen a Dotterel (Pomeransfugl) around the Lighthouse! Apparently, it flew off to the Lighthouse Garden. Then, Christina, Oluf and I had a very busy morning with tons of birds in the first round. Before the second round we called Martin for help, because we were already late and had to leave out measurements. Martin was there for support in less than 10 minutes and could stay for the second and third round, which was a big relief for us. We closed the nets at 12 and had over 120 birds today, including recaptures!

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Not to compare with the 2000+ birds they caught in Ottenby today! Although it was mostly Robins (Rødhals), they caught four Yellow-browed Warblers (Hvidbrynet Løvsanger). Simon will stay two more days there to support them and will be back with us in Skagen on Wednesday.

Today we caught a lot of Goldcrests (Fuglekonge) and Robins (Rødhals), which made out almost half of the birds ringed today.

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At this time of the year we must be careful, because there can also be Olive-backed Pipits (Tajgapiber).

We also made a little ringing tour for a family that is on vacation here in Skagen. They were very interested in the species and in the aging of the birds. Later in the morning Kristina came by with her dog Aslan. She’s happy to be in Skagen again, as she had to stay home for the last weeks because of a cold.

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In the early evening Martin and I went to Kabeltromlen again to do some filming for an upcoming movie we are planning to do.

Now Christina prepared another wonderful dinner for us, which we will enjoy with our new guests Sven and Mette.

Ringmærkning (Kabeltromlen):

Blåmejse - Blue Tit - 2

Fugelkonge – Goldcrest - 28

Gærdesmutte -Wren - 1

Gransanger - Chiffchaff – 11

Lille Gråsisken – Lesser Redpoll – 2

Grønsisken – Siskin - 1

Jernspurv - Dunnock – 11

Løvsanger – Willow Warbler - 2

Munk - Blackcap – 3

Rødhals - Robin – 43

Rørspurv - Reed Bunting - 6

Sangdrossel - Song Thrush – 2

Solsort – Blackbird - 2

Sortmejse - Coal Tit - 4

Total: 120

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People: Martin Grienenberger, Amelie Zeller, Christina Stinn, Oluf Lou, Kristina Sønderkjær & Aslan, Jørgen & Igor, Sven & Mette

A day to untangle our mind

søndag 27. september 2020
af Martin Grienenberger

No birds to untangle today, so we had a lot of time to be focused on many many other things that we had in mind since a long time ! As you could have understood, the weather today wasn't good for ringing so Christina and Amelie stayed at the Lighthouse, starting their day with a delicious sheet checking session as they enjoy them, followed then by a load of laundry. After that, they focused on reading our books about moulting and ageing passerines. Amelie spent also some time to think about the scenario of the movie we'll shoot in the following days and which will deal with the nocturnal migration monitoring at the station. She also spent a nice time trying out the camera that Olympus is lending us.

During that time, I was alone in the field, trying to shelter myself from the strong north-easterly winds behind one of the bunker near the parking spot. We can't really say that this was a productive morning on that side with only a few Gannets (Sule) and Alcids (Alk og Lomvie), and we can expect the same for tomorrow.

We continued our day with a thorough cleaning of the appartment, just to make our dear Simon proud of his cleanest European (World?) Bird Observatory. If that wasn't enough, we then worked on our sessions that each of us will present in the upcoming weeks. Amelie will have one about landscape planning, Christina will deal with the purpose in ringing in birds conservation and I will speak about raptors identification.

Michael Ancher was ringing this morning and that was a smart idea since Jennes Sø is more sheltered than Kabeltromlen. He was rewarded with a smart Yellow-Browed Warbler (Hvidbrynet Løvsanger) ! Nice catch Michael !

Ringmærkning (Jennes Sø):

Gæ­rdesmutte - Eurasian wren: 1

Fuglekonge - Goldcrest: 1

Musvit - Great Tit: 1

Rødhals - Robin: 2

Kvaekerfinke - Brambling : 1

Hvidbrynet Løvsanger – Yellow-browed Warbler - 1

Lille Grasisken - Lesser Redpoll : 1

Total Jennes Sø: 8

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People: Martin Grienenberger, Amelie S. Zeller, Christina Stinn, Michael Anker


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