It's Wiiiindyyyy

Today Cora, rosemary and Sarah started their day at the morning count. Here thay saw gannets (suler) feasting, ruddy turnstones (stenvendere), red knots (islandske ryler), grey herons (fiskehejrer), and a sooty shearwater (sodfarvet skråpe). the weather was really nice and quiet, when all of a sudden, they spotted a big dark cloud in the horizon. Rose just had time to say "I hope that it is not gonna rain" before they got blasted by wind. It was so sudden an dintense that all the gulls flew up on the beach.

Sunrise at Grenen

At Kabeltrommle, Markus, Simon, and I had two great rounds where we caught 13 birds. Mio joined us for the first round to ring one last bird before leaving to go back home to Germany (we are gonna miss you Mio. Hope to see you again soon). Just while on the third round, the wind hit. All of a sudden, we became really busy closing most of the nets. For the next two rounds we caught no birds. However, that was okay because that then gave us plenty of time setting up a new net, whivh turned out pretty good (if I should say so myself). Lets hope it is going to catch a lot of birds. 

Simon with the new net at Kabeltrommlen

After coming back to the lighthouse and putting in today's data, we all had different activities planned for ourselves. Markus anf Simon were so kind as to go grocery shopping. On their way ack they passed the bakery to buy us a cake. meanwhile, Rose had also discovered that we were low on snacks, so she decided to bake us a chocolate cake, so now we have two (oh well none of us are complaining). then Markus, Simon, and Cora also went out for a walk around Grenen. Here Cora managed to catch a sand lizard (markfirben). Rose and Sarah both had a swim. hey also created a bookclub for us. Currently we are reading "The Yellow Wall-paper", which we will discuss in the following days. 

the two cakes (delicious!)

I also went on a little evening walj. However, I managed to forget both my camera and my binoculars (I grabbed the wrong bag before heading out), so I am not entirely sure of what I saw. I did see a beatiful emperior moth (natpåfugleøje) larvea and two roedeers (rådyr). I think I also saw some whinchats, but due to the lack of binoculars it was a little hard to tell. 

Emperior moth larvea (natpåfugleøje larve) 

Now Sarah and I have just put up the nets for nightjar (natravn) and storm petrel (lilel stormsvale) catching and are getting ready for the first round. We just brewed our fist liter f coffe and are enjoying the company of Lars Bo, Jeppe, and Simon. Wish us luck!

All observations in the area from today can be seen here on DOFbasen.

Ringing at KAB: 

6 Tornsanger 

4 Munk 

1 Rørsanger

1 Løvsanger

3 Gærdesanger 

Total: 13 

At the station: Markus Kemp Clément, Simon Kiesé, Louise Buksti-Ladefoged, Sarah Partridge, Mio Brix, Cora Köberle, Rosemary Fricke, Ragnar Smith, Simon Sigaard Christiansen