Daytrip to the aquarium

Today the sun woke up earlier than I did. And after enjoying the golden morning at breakfast, I went to Jesper Pedersen with Alice. We tried to figure out how to calibrate the laser binocular but we were unsuccessful. Thomas came too but only to find his glasses that he lost last day.

The others were ringing in the morning together with Lars. Unfortunately, the nets were almost empty. Hanelie was happy with the meadow pipit ‘engpiber’ they caught but she had to hurry to be at time at the station. Because today we finally made a trip.

Together with Alice, Lisa and Hanelie, we drove to Hirtshals to see the aquarium and get a guided tour from Anders. Marion joined us too in Hirtshals which made it a really nice reunion. In the aquarium, we discovered the fauna of the North Sea. Anders took us behind the screens and showed us a rare fish they caught: the wreckfish. We were all really amazed by the skeletons of the whales they had and the horn of the narwal. We finally had the feeling of being on holidays and profited from this day to eat nice fish and chips in the harbour. Tired but satisfied, we came back to the station. The girls took their time to set up the owl net, which will now be a stationary net as well.

Today, Manuel took the time to enjoy the birding without having to many tasks. He first made a stop at Batteriskoven to find the flycatchers ‘broget fluesnapper’, but only the wood warblers ‘skovsanger’ were present. He continued his trip to the gallery of Axel to have a nice talk with him and in the late afternoon he had a look at the nocmig, together with the chairman of DOF.

Earlier this day, Simon also went to Batteriskoven to search the wryneck ‘vendehalse’ that was seen but without any result. He also announced that he has a new boss.

The third person that went to Batteriskoven was Anders and he had more luck with the pied flycatchers. He wanted to spend the whole afternoon on watching raptors but he had the ‘luck’ to enter the ringing data.

Hans started this day quite early and went to Nordstrand. It was too cold and foggy to see birds but he had nice company. His birding highlights of the day were 8 fulmars ‘mallemuk’ during the migration counts, a group of 12 ring ouzels ‘ringdrossel’ and a golden eagle ‘Kongeørn’. During the day he brought Birte to the station and later he also visited the harbour to find a nice gull. In the evening, Hans and Anders eased our work by doing the raptor summary.

Surprisingly, while I am writing this blog, Axel found a female citrine wagtail ‘citrin vipstjert’ at the cormorant lake!

Good night,

Robbe

Engpiber: 1

Gærdesmutte: 1

rødhals: 4

Munk: 3

Gransanger: 1

Løvsanger: 4

Bogfinke: 1

Rørspurv: 4

Total: 19

Today’s observations in Dofbasen from observers in the area

People/Folk: Knud Pedersen,Simon S. Christiansen, Hanelie Sidhu, Alice Scalzo, Manuel Tacke, Robbe Cool, Anders Brinkmann,  Jesper Pedersen, Birthe Drustrup & Hans Christophersen, Lisa Vergin, Anders Østerby, Egon Østergaard, Lars Bo Jacobsen