Weathears (Stenpikker) everywhere!

Before I start this Blog I want to let you know that we are going to do a Bird race tomorrow!!!

Which means that we try to find as many species as possible by birding 24 hours nonstop in the Skagen Community Area! In combnation with this bird race, we started a fundraiser for needed materials and supplies for our station. 

The way it works: For each bird the team finds, a patron pledges a set amount per bird or a set amount total to support Skagen Fuglestation! We will later send each patron our MobilePay after the final tally has been counted!

Link to the fundraise 

Today Rasmus and I went out to Worlds End 3 to do the obs. On our way biking out there we saw around ten Weathears (Stenpikker). There must have been many of them migrating tonight. It was very cold this morning so it was a good idea to bring the warm suits. Rasmus' father and his friends Jan and Carsten joined us, which was very hyggeligt. Bird Number wise there was not too much going on out there. But we had two nice Great Northern Divers (Islom) and an Arctic Skua (Almindelig Kjove) passing by. Also the Little Tern (Dværgterne) was there again searching for food.

female Weathear (Stenpikker)

The ringers had a good morning today. They did not catch so many birds but they had 11 different species in total. Among them was a beautiful female Weathear (Stenpikker), the first we caught this year. They also caught a Wood Warbler (Skovsanger) and a Garden Warbler (Havesanger),  also first of the season. It was the first time Tue saw a Garden Warbler (Havesanger) so it became species number 800 on his Worldlist!

Wood Warbler (Skovsanger)

In the afternoon we went out to do some scouting for our Birdrace tomorrow, which we all are really looking forward to. We checked some places around Skagen. Like some horsefields where we met some friendly horses and more Weathears (Stenpikker).

We ended up at Skarvsøen. On our way there we heard two calls which sounded really good for Hoopoe (Hærfugl). Unfortunately it didn't say more so we cant be hundred percent sure but maybe someone can find it tomorrow again.

Now we are preparing some food for tomorrow and going to bed early to be well prepared for our Birdrace.

Ringmærkning: Kabeltromlen

Gransanger 2 

Rødstjert 1

Skovsanger 1

Gærdesanger 2

Løvsanger 3

Tornsanger 2

Havesanger 1

Stenpikker 1

Dompap 1

Bogfink 1

Rørspurv 1

Total: 16

 

Highlights from the observations: 

Great Northern Diver (Islom) 2

Arctic Skua (Almindelig Kjove) 1

Little Tern (Dværgterne) 1

many Weathears (Stenpikker)

first Montagu's Harrier (Hedehøg) of the season

 Raptor migration in Skagen today

Today’s observations in Dofbasen from observers in the area

People: Tue Baaner, Cora Köberle, Simon Sigaard Christiansen, Lucas Corneliussen, Andrew Jacobs, Rasmus Matthiesen-Juhl, Viggo Larsen,  Anders Rasmussen, Jan and Carsten.