Calm in the ringing but busy observations!

This morning, Simon jr. went to the Radar, while Magnus was observing at North Beach and Hayley, Isis and I went to Kabeltromle for ringing.  The ringing was slow though, we had hoped for some more birds after yesterday had been quite good. The first round brought three Song Thrushes (Sangdrossel) and we had two more new Lesser Whitethroats (Gærdesanger) today.

 

Song Thrush (Sangdrossel)

 

Lesser Whitethroat (Gærdesanger)

Simon sr. had a tour today and joined us at Kabeltromle for a bit to the third round.

 

Ringmækening Kabeltromle

Sangdrossel: 3

Gærdesmutte: 5

Rødhals: 2

Løvsanger: 3

Gærdesanger: 2

Munk: 2

Fuglekonge: 2

Gransanger: 1

Total: 20

 

Ringmækening Jennes Sø:

Gransanger: 1

Gærdesmutte: 1

 

Ringmækening Nordstrandvej:

Munk: 1

Gransanger: 1

Musvit: 1

Total: 3

 

Magnus had a busy morning counting at Nordstrand with Jørgen Hulbæk and Jan. The numbers and variety species was very good today so Magnus decided to stay for six hours. They had about 9500 Common Scoters (Sortand), as well as about 1000 Red-throated Divers (Rødstrubet Lom), one Glaucous Gull (Gråmåge), one Little Gull (Dværgmåge) and one Shag (Topskarv) and two Waxwings (Silkehale). But the highlight was definitely a Surfscoter (Brilleand). This bird made Simon jr. and Mads leave the radar and run along the beach all the way to Nordstrand. They arrived quite exhausted but were rewarded with seeing the bird very well.

Brilleand (Surf Scoter)

 

Mads and Simon jr. stayed 10 hours in total at the radar and had 155 raptors of 15 species: two great Pallid Harriers, that unfortunately, no one else in the team got to see.

We got to see and hear the ethical ringing section by Simon sr. in which we discussed how to behave in different difficult situations that can appear in the ringing.

When we came out of the conference room, it smelled delicious in the kitchen. Helle had made a cake for us! But the cake needed to wait a bit because when Simon jr. returned from the radar, we soon left to the animal rescue centre, where a Tawny Owl (Natugle) that flew against a window had been nursed back to health and was soon ready to be set into wild again. The beautiful adult female was ringed by Isis and the whole station including Knud, Lisa and our guest Helle came to see it.

Tawny Owl (Natugle)

 

Back at the station, Helles cake was waiting for us. It was delicious, mange tak!

Also, Simon sr. and I had made a deal some days ago: I would clean his car and he would cook for us one time. Simon fulfilled his part today and cooked us a traditional Danish new Years Dinner. Glühwein from Jan and Jørgen yesterday, today new Years dinner, it is a feast at the bird observatory every day! Anyway tak for mad, Simon, it was very good and enough fish so I can have the rest tomorrow for breakfast! So I guess, it will soon be time to fulfil my part and clean the batmobile.

Let´s hope tomorrow observations will be as good as today and the ringing will get a bit busier!

See you in the field!

Hanelie

Todays observations from observers in the area

Sum of the raptors in the area based on observations typed into Dofbasn the same day

People: Michael Ancher, Hayley Land, Isis Khalil, Hanelie Sidhu, Magnus Houen Lauritsen, Simon Kiesé, Simon S. Christiansen, Lisa Vergin, Jørgen Hulbæk, Jan Eske, Knud Pedersen our guests Helle Rasmussen and Johan Deichmann.