Night catching in the fields

Hi everyone,

 

this blog starts again in the last hours of yesterday, because we were once again night active. This time we did not go to the forest to catch Nightjars "Natravn" but in the fields, south of Skagen. We got permission from a friendly farmer to catch roosting birds in his fields. Lars Bo had scouted out the day before yesterday that there are many there. So Esben, Lars Bo, Rita, Alice, Nathan and I set off yesterday around 9pm, nets, poles, rings and all the equipment in our luggage. Max rested a bit from his two-day trip from US to Skagen and stayed at the station to be able to start top fit tomorrow. 

 

Unfortunately it was without succes. Even though we also tried to go nightchatching with thermal binocular and net on the beach. The light was beautiful at the beach though

 

At sunrise we were back at the Station again. Maybe next time we will have more success. Then we fell tired into our beds and not soo much happened today. We slept late, I was at the hairdresser and cleaned up the Lab, Esben was grocery shopping and cooked for us, both courses 100% Danish cuisine, at our request. Alice did some computer work and Alice and I showed Nathan and Max some stuff for the Bird Station on the computer and also Lab and Birders Club. After such a slow day, of course things need to pick up tomorrow, we will go ringing and hope for a good morning. See you then, take care!

 

Hanelie

 

 

People:  Esben E. Hansen, Rita DeLucco, Hanelie Sidhu, Alice Scalzo, Nathan Delmas, Max Laubstein, Lars Bo Jacobsen