Blue Tit Bonanza

Despite the 38 Blue Tits (Blåmejse) we caught, today was one of the best days for me and Sarah because we caught a Crested Tit (Topmejse) this morning! These are one of our favourite birds so we were extremely excited. I hadn’t noticed until now how blood red their eyes were, it was beautiful. We also had the first Redwing (Vindrossel) of the Autumn in the nets, a lovely adult bird, and then I had a strange sighting of a Water rail (Vandrikse) sitting at the top of a Willow tree!

Crested Tit (Topmejse)

After the very windy weather over the last few days, it was great to have all the nets open again today and we were rewarded with 111 birds in total, a busy morning! It was nice to see the birds with a lot more body fat than they’ve had recently, so hopefully the bad weather has given them time to stop and re-fuel before they continue their Autumn migration.

Redwing (Vindrossel)

The observers (Florian and Gabriel) had a slower morning but still saw some impressive numbers of birds, with over 1600 gulls resting on the beach, and amongst them they impressively managed to pick out a single juvenile Caspian Gull (Kaspisk Måge). There was also over 1000 Common Scoter (Sortand) on the sea and 300 Starlings (Stær) migrating past. The observers also managed to read several gull colour rings despite the wind making it quite shaky through the scope. It will be exciting to find out where these colour-ringed birds have come from!

After a quick lunch, Sarah, Gabriel and I were kindly invited by Sabine to help carve some pumpkins. Of course, we all chose bird-themed designs but none of us were brave enough to attempt the Skagen logo bird, the Pallid Harrier. I’m very proud of all the carvings we produced; we had a Raven, a Tawny Owl, some Sanderling and a Pigeon. If you’re passing by the lighthouse, come and check them out, they’re in the main courtyard outside the shop!

Pumpkin carving

The rest of the afternoon was spent having a group swim and then trying to catchup on entering all our data from such a bird-filled morning of ringing and observations!

A very cute Treecreeper (Træløber)

 

Ringing (Kabeltromlen):

Vindrossel 1

Topmejse 1

Blåmejse 38

Sangdrossel 6

Musvit 3

Rørspurv 1

Lille Gråsisken 1

Fuglekonge 15

Træløber 1

Gærdesmutte 7

Rødhals 4

Sortmejse 2

Jernspurv 1

Munk 6

Gransanger 7

Total new birds: 94

 

Highlights from today's observations at Worlds End 3:

Gull sp. 1600+

Caspian Gull 1

Common Scoter 1000+

 

Today’s observations from the area can be found here.

People: Gabriel Axelsson, Florian Hatt, Sarah Partridge, Amira Nuseibeh, Miles Scheuering, Simon S. Christiansen and our guest Otto Clemmensen.