Migration count and two birds ringed

Our day started early this morning when Robbe and I went to Grennen to participate in the bird census. We meet Knud there, he had already arrived and began counting. The sky was clear and we could once again appreciate the beautiful sunrise before us, but the wind was stronger and quite chilly.

On the beach was an European Oystercatcher (Strandskade) and quite a few seagulls. A lot of Jackdaws (Allike) passed by.

We spent our morning there and had the chance to observe a Hen Harrier (Blå Kærhøg), a Common Buzzard (Musvåge) and a Black guillemot (Tejst).

We also had the chance to meet Jørgen and Igor his dog.

 

 

Meanwhile Hanelie and Marion put up the nets in the garden, hoping to ring a few passerines passing by. They left some seed and installed the microphones with bird calls.

They caught 2 Yellowhamers (Gulspurv) the first round, and later on a Great Tit (Musvit) together with Simon. One yellowhammer was a recapture, so they ringed the two remaining birds. They also installed the traps on the beach to get a Eurasian Rock Pipit (Skærpiber), three approached the trap but unfortunately none went in.

 

When they were finished, Simon showed them the night recordings. And Hanelie did the raptor summary.

 

Then we all met back home and began entering the ringing data with Simon's help.

Simon had then to leave, he will return tonight or tomorrow morning with Esben E. Hansen, former volunteer at the station.

We ate yesterday's leftovers for lunch.

In the afternoon Robbe, Hanelie and I took the bicycles to go to skagen and buy some batteries to install the camera trap.

We got to see a Glaucous Gull (Gråmåge) on the way, and a rather big flock of Common Eiders (Eiderfugl) resting in the harbour's waters.

We found a nice spot to install the camera and clean the place so we could get nice videos out of it. We also put an apple and peanut butter, hoping it will attract a few animals.

And then we headed back to the lighthouse. We decided to take the shortest path, but we ended up in a flooded area and continued by foot pushing our bikes through nearly knee deep water. It was quite the adventure ! But the landscape was really beautiful and filled with colours as the sun was setting. We got to see 2 Common Cranes (Trane).

When we got back Hanelie made dinner.

We ate a really good Bolognese sauce with lentils and pasta.

Today Karin when to Skagen to the Teddy Bear museum, and she cycled to the moving dune and came back.

 

We will now also be posting on social media and you can go check the first Facebook posts on the account “Skagen Fuglestation”.

 

Ringing (Fyrhaven):

Yellowhammer : 1

Great tit : 1

Total : 2