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… in up to 17,5 m/s, gusting to 25,8 m/s from west. This weather was not very inviting to spend the morning outside, so we got a little more cleaning and some office work done, Andrew put pictures in the picture archive and Cora and I standarised all comments in the ringing data of this season.

In the early afternoon, our new guests Linda and Jeppe arrived. We were very thankful that they drove Cora to the grocery shop, biking in today´s wind did not sound like a good idea. There was also space for me and the new ringing table for Cormorant lake in the car so they dropped me at Nordstrand before continueing to the shop.

Holding the light aluminium table, by its handle I made my way to the lake. The wind would have liked to take it from me, but I grabbed it tight, wounder if I would have flown away if i had such a wide arm extension on each side. Of course not, but in this weather it´s easy to imagine being carried away by the wind.

Nevertehless, it was actually a quite warm and very sunny day and no matter the wind, I wanted to use the oppurtunity to be driven to also do the Cormorant „Skarv“ count. I saw a lot more 1K birds than adults in the colony, most already quite big and are sitting outside of the nests in the colony. Nevertheless, I saw two birds that got fed by one of the parants in a windshaken nest. There was not so much other than Cormorants „Skarv“ at the lake today.

Cormorants "Skarv" through the telescope. Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

I walked back to the station and Cora and I finished the ringing comments.

While Cora was cooking, Andrew and I went to the beach and found a sheltered place close to a bunker to do some seawatching. Highlights were some Arktic Skuas „Almindelig Kjove“ and Kittiwakes „Ride“.

Today´s observations of observers in the area typed into DODbasn can be seen here.

After a good dinner, it was time for Wingspan.

Playing Wingspan. Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

Although part of the night was very windy I had the lights on but not many moth came, they also do not like to fly in very windy weather. Nevertheless, I do not run out of moth content to show to you, as the night before was very good with 43 different species, of which I would like to show one more highlight. Calophasia lunula „Kappeugle“ is a vulnerable species on the danish redlist and there are rather few observations, 206 of it on Arter.

Calophasia lunula „Kappeugle“. Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

At the station: Andrew Jacobs, Cora Körbele, Hanelie Sidhu