R&R

This morning Amira, Gabriel and I woke up quite tired from yesterday but ready to head out to open nets again. We weren’t too sad that the radar showed heavy rain all morning so we decided not to open the nets and got to sleep longer instead. By the time I woke up, Florian and Miles had been to World's End 1 and come home again already, rained out after just 30 minutes of the standardized count. Still, they were able to see some migrating Ederfugl (Eiders) and a Blå Kærhøg (Hen harrier). Then we all had a nice lazy breakfast together.

Amira and I were hyped up to spend the morning entering our ringing data from yesterday, but the ringmærkning website was down for maintenance so we spent the morning relaxing instead. Feeling a little restless after a whole morning inside, we went out for a rainy swim since it was wet anyway. Then Simon cheered everyone up when he brought us a “half-Jew cake” (the meaning of this is not entirely clear to me but there is still much to learn about Danish culture). It was delicious anyways. Then we finally got to spend the afternoon entering data! Florian and Gabriel went out for some birdwatching after the rain stopped, and after we got too tired of reading numbers, Amira, Miles and I went to the shops to get dinner, and Amira stopped to mushroom watch on the way. We cooked up the fish that Matilde and Maciek brought us, which was delicious indeed.

This evening, Simon took Gabriel and LarsBo out to Elle Krattet to try to catch Jack Snipes (Enkeltbekkasin) in the dark. And they have already had some success! They are on their way back just now to ring the bird in the lab.

Jack Snipe (Enkeltbekkasin). Foto: Gabriel Axelsson

Highlights from World's End 1

Ederfugl

Blå Kærhøg

Today's observations from the area can be seen on DOFbasen.

Ringing (Storsig):

Enkeltbekkasin 1 

People: Gabriel Axelsson, Florian Hatt, Sarah Partridge, Amira Nuseibeh, Miles Scheuering, Michael Ancher, Simon S. Christiansen, and Lars Bo Jacobsen.