Golden day

Surprised by the brightness of the sun, I woke up to late this morning because the battery of my phone died. I hurried to Nordstrand and there I met Manuel and Jørgen Hulbæk Christiansen among others. The migration was better than yesterday but there were no real highlights except for a possible Lapland longspur “Lapværling”. The numbers of red-throated divers “rødstrubede lom” were quite surprising and we finished the morning with more than thousand birds. While Manuel stayed at Nordstrand to enjoy the birds, I went to the cormorant lake and saw the glaucous gull “Gråmåge” landing and resting there.

Just when we wanted to leave to the lighthouse, we had a surprising zello about three golden eagles “Kongeørn” coming our way. We decided to go to a good viewpoint near the lemonade hill and started to scan the sky. We had a lot of different raptors but the eagles were nowhere to be seen. Until I found one just above us. We were both really excited with this observation and really enjoyed the next hour where we saw eagle four times.

Only our stomachs were not so happy and we agreed with Hanelie and Alice that they would bring us a picknick. They finished earlier already because, once again, the ringing was slow with less than 20 birds. Fortunately, we finally caught the first redpolls “Lille gråsisken”. Meanwhile Alex arrived too and showed them his lovely paintings that can now be seen in Galleri Molevit until the 8^th of May.

We all met in the city in the early afternoon, for Manuel and me to have our lunch, for all of us to enjoy a nice ice-cream.  We were accompanied by many raptors migrating on top of the city so we found ourselves a nice observation spot and watched the rough-legged buzzard “Fjeldvåge”, harriers “høg” and black kite “sort glente”.

Alice and I stayed a bit longer to look for clothes in outdoorshops and on our way back, we saw the golden eagle again. Immediately when we arrived, we joined the lecture about Skagen’s butterflies given by Jørgen Kabel. It was a really interesting presentation with adorable pictures taken by him. We are fully prepared to go on butterfly-hunt now. We were so captivated by the beauty of the species that Simon was afraid we would stop watching birds. Not only the guests joined us for this presentation but also Simon and Jørgen Hulbæk Christiansen.

Simon joined us for most of the day, but in the afternoon, he had a meeting with the director of birdlife Denmark. The guests joined the ringing in the morning and made a walk to Grenen afterwards. In the afternoon they enjoyed the golden eagle as well.

When we had the evening meeting, Rasmus and Thomas came to get the right equipment to make the radar operable the next days.

Klik her for at se dagens observationer indtastet i DOFbasen af observatører i området (Today’s observations in DOFbasen from observers in the area)

People: Simon S. Christiansen, Hanelie Sidhu, Alice Scalzo, Manuel Tacke, Robbe Cool, Lisa Vergin, Rasmus Due Nielsen, Jørgen Hulbæk Christiansen, Thomas Kjær Christensen, Jørgen Kabel, Birthe & Hans Christophersen, Axel Thorenfeldt

Ringing Kabletromle

Gransanger: 4

Solsort: 1

Rødhals: 1

Lille gråsisken: 2

Løvsanger: 2

Gærdesmutte: 3

Total: 13