Shearwater and Skua day!

Sunrise at Grenen.

This morning Sarah and I walked the opening round together to decide which nets to open as conditions were not perfect, some nets were too exposed in the wind. We could open about half of the nets. Many people showed up to the first round, two more expected people, Henrik and Louise. Apart from that, we got a surprise visit from Jeppe, a former guest in the apartment and his son . We were a big group walking the rounds and unfortunately did not get many birds. In total we had eleven, two juvenile Yellowhammers “Gulspurv” found their way in the nets, we do not catch them frequently and one of them got the first bird Louise ringed.

Juvenile Gulspurv

Apart from that, we also had a juvenile Grey Wagtail “Bjergvipstert”, it is also quite uncommon, that these fly into our nets.

Bjergvipstjert 1st calender year

Ringing totals

Gransanger: 4
Gærdesanger: 2
Tornsanger: 1
Bjergvipstjert: 1
Munk: 1
Gulspurv: 2

Total: 11

While we were at Kabeltromle, we received several zello messages. The observers, 

Simon jr., Mio, Markus, Rose and Simon sr., who also went out for a bit and also said hi to us at Kabeltrommle, saw a Manx Shearwater “Almindelig Skråpe”, two Great Skuas “Stor Kjove” and there were also two Sooty Shearwater “Sodfarvet Skråpe” very far out.

Part of the team is at World´s end three again now to do some more seawatching. We saw several Arctic Scuas “Almindelig Kjove”, two resting Manx Shearwaters “Almindelig Skråpe” and a Great Skua “Stor Kjove”.

It was a good decision to go out.

Markus at the evening obs.

Highlights ringing:

Bjergvipstjert

Highlights Observations:

Almindelig Skråpe

Sodfarvet Skråpe

Stor Kjove

Todays observations from observers in the area can be seen here.

I did not catch moths the last nights, but I will turn on the light again tonight and I would like to show some nice ones from the last days to you.

At the station: Simon Kiesé, Mio Brix, Rosemary Fricke, Sarah Partrige, Simon S. Christiansen, Henrik Møller Thomsen, Markus Kemp Clément, Louise Buksti-Ladefoged, Jeppe Rørbæk and his son, Hanelie Sidhu