Sun, wind and the snow buntings

It was a cold and windy morning. Jonas, Michaela and Daniel went out to observe the sea, but they had to take shelter from the wind by the bunker. The first hour of observations was quite busy, Jonas spotted a puffin (Lunde) flying with a razorbill (Alk) not too far away from the shore. Mette and Jesper, who joined the guys in the dunes also got to see it! What a nice reward for enduring the cold! Overall a good number of razorbills (Alk) and guillemots (Lomvie) were migrating, a total of around seven hundreds!

Back at the station I was planning how to construct a portable field photo lab which we could have at the ringing site, and was looking up mirror traps! As I was waiting for the cold sea observers to return, I made some pancakes and hot cocoa to help them warm up!

Then we had a nice brunch together and headed out to Grenen with some traps for the snow buntings (Snespurv). There we set up a pyramid trap, and two different walk-in traps and waited for the snow buntings to come and start feeding on the seeds we put out for them. We had some luck with the pyramid trap and caught two beautiful snow buntings, a male and a female. We were joined by Mette and Jesper, and Erik Christophersen, who also enjoyed seeing the snow buntings from up close! These were the first snow buntings caught since 2017!

When we returned to the observatory, we did some data entry and had our evening meeting. Jonas made a delicious wok and cooked tofu for the first time in his life! :D Mette, Jesper and Michaela helped him to prepare the food. After the dinner we had a discussion meeting on moulting strategies and ended the day by watching some Brooklyn 99 with well-earned icecream! 

Ringing (Grenen)

Snespurv - 2

Ringing (Jennes Sø - Nordstjernevej)

Nordlig Gråsisken - 2

Lille Gråsisken - 3

Sum: two birds ringed at Grenen, five at Jennes Sø.

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Folk: Simon S Christiansen, Mette and Jesper,  Erik Christophersen, Michaëla Berdougo, Michael Ancher, Jonas Pedersen, Daniel Bloche, and Laima Bagdonaite,