Arctic Tern and office day

This morning started very windy, I got up two times in the early morning, one time at normal waking up time for opening the nets but as it was too windy for ringing, I turned the alarm off again. The second time it woke me up was was a bit later for going to the morning obs. Rose and Emma were already up and Rose proposed I could also sleep in today. I did not mind that and went to bed again. Outside, the wind was still howling and after some more hours in my warm and comfortable bed I did office work which meant the picture archive for me, I was quite behind… After, I started reporting gull rings that we had read in the field.

The others returned from the morning observations; Knud joined them a bit later. They had some Arctic Terns “Havterne”, an Arctic Skua “Almidelig Kjove” and Knud saw a Fulmar “Mallemuk” very far out. A Grey Plover “Strandhjeile” was resting at the beach very close to the observers.

Grey Plover. Picture: Rosemary Fricke

Highlights

Arctic Scua - Almindelig Kjove

Fulmar - Mallemuk

Arctic Tern - Havterne

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

While Rose and Emma took a nap and I still did office work, Simon came by for an hour to also do some work.

Saturday is cleaning day so we cleaned the station today and after, Emma and I went grocery shopping while Rose took a swim in the sea.

Tomorrow looks a little less windy, so we hope to be ringing again.

At the station: Rosemary Fricke, Emma Fabre, Simon S. Christiansen, Knud Pedersen, Hanelie Sidhu