Foggy morning and Coal Tit

The day began by looking out of the window, determining whether it was worthwhile going out to do the morning migration count or not, as it was too foggy yesterday. Even though it was pretty foggy today too, we decided to try anyway. Despite the poor visibility, the migration for passerines and geese was decent. It was also cool to see all of the crows migrating out over the sea, into the fog. Additionally, we put out some food to feed the Snowbuntings (Snespurv), we plan to continue and may even be able to catch them if they hang around. After two hours of counting the fog engulfed us and we decided to stop the count early.

János and Alix at Grenen 

Then we went back to the station and ate some lunch before we biked to Michael Ancher to help out with the ringing in his garden. Within the first rounds we caught a Coal Tit (Sortmejse) with was very cool since none of us had ringed one before. In between the rounds we took a couple of short walks and looked at some moss and lichens. We also helped Michael Ancher move some boulders outside his hedge.

Coal Tit (Sortmejse)

In the afternoon Simon drove us into town to do some grocery shopping and pick up the new volunteer, Julian, who will be staying with us for the rest of the spring :)

In the evening, some of us also tried to nightcatch some woodcocks (Skovsneppe) but were unsucessfull. 

Ringing (Nordstjernevej)
Blåmejse - 21
Musvit - 4
Bogfinke - 1
Sortmejse - 1
Solsort - 1

Total: 28

Link to today’s observations in DOFbasen from observers in the area

 People: Alvin Johansson, János Schadl, Alix Bortolussi, Julian Heleig, Simon S. Christiansen, Michael Ancher.