Small plovers and bigger small plovers

Today we got up early with the intention of going out to try some ringing however the rainy weather was not conductive to doing so and we went back to bed for awhile.

Later when the rain had mostly cleared up we went to the beach to look for birds where we saw some 1k Common Terns and the first fledged 1k European Herring Gull of the season. There was a dark morph Arctic Skua flying around offshore and the tern flock seems to now always have Black-legged Kittiwakes joining it giving quite good views of them sitting on the beach. When we headed back to do the cleaning of the station we saw some Common Ringed Plover chicks and so we decided to come back to ring them later in the day.

Stor Præstekrave photo Andrew Jacobs

Stor Præstekrave photo Andrew Jacobs

When we came back for the Common Ringed Plovers we caught 3 new ones and recaught 2 from earlier that had more than doubled in weight since last time we saw them.

Today the moth box got a new shiny Plusia moth photo Andrew Jacobs

Tomorrow we will try again to ring in the morning if the weather allows.

Ringing

Stor Præstekrave 3

Highlights

Almindelig Kjove

Ride

Observations in Dofbasen for the area today

People : Andrew Jacobs, Cora Körbele, Knud Pedersen, Pauline Nähring, Hanelie Sidhu and our guests Linda and Jeppe.