The first autumn morning obs

On the 15^th of July the standardized 4-hour morning observations start after the summer break. Emma and I went to World´s end 3 this morning and started the sea migration count. We had some Common Scoters “Sortand” on migration and very few Red-Throated Divers “Rødstrubet Lom” and Auks “Alkefugl”. Many Sandwich Terns “Splitterne” came to forage not so far from the tip as well as Nothern Gannets “Sule”. Erik Christophersen joined us for a bit coming from the beach where he had been photographing and saw the Black-throated Diver “Sortstrubet Lom” first. A Great White Egret “Sølvhejre” was flying southeast in a group of ten Grey Herons “Fiskehejre”. Three Kestrels “Tårnfalk” landed on the beach – one of them was playing with some long roots that sticked out of the sand. That was fun to watch. But they also landed close to where the ringed Plovers “Stor Præstekrave” raise their chicks, so were a bit worried about them. We also had a Whimbrel “Småspove” landing on the beach.

Great White Egret "Sølvhejre". archive picture from 2022.

The last hour was a bit tiring; there was not much happening on the sea. We kept an eye on the birds but after the obs was finished, we were happy to go back to the station to take a nap.

Before noon, Simon came to the station. I also woke up and did a bit of data work with the ringing data and did the DOFbasn quality assurance. We are checking if all our data is also typed into dafbasn and if there are some mistakes in the data. I found some data that was not in and entered it. After, we had an early evening meeting with Simon. Then Pauline and I checked some ringing data while Emma went grocery shopping. We also took out one more net to sew. Luckily, it did not have as many holes as the last one so we could finish it today and it can be reused as soon as a net needs to be exchanged or for the nest year.

Net sewing. Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

Now Pauline is cooking an early dinner, maybe we can go to bed a bit earlier today to be fit again tomorrow morning for ringing at Kabletromle and Morning Observations.

Higlights Morning Obs:

Great White Egret - Sølvhejre

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

People: Pauline Nähring, Emma Fabre, Simon S. Christiansen, Hanelie Sidhu.