CES setup and sightings

Today for migration was Alvin and I at Grenen. The morning started out with an absolutely beautiful sunrise.

Sunrise at Grenen

The migration was a little slow but we had the chance of seeing and hearing a few waders like Wood Sandpiper (Tinksmed), Common Sandpiper (Mudderklire) or Redshank (Rødben) for example. 

A Serin (Gulirisk) was called out around 07:30 and Alvin was lucky to hear it! 

As we were getting ready to round up the last hour of the count, a Waxwing (Silkehalen) was heard and Alvin spotted two Arctic Skuas (Almindelig Kjove) far out which was so nice!

At ringing, the numbers happened to be a bit higher up today finally after a few days of very calm ringing sessions. The ringers caught the first Lesser Whitethroats (Gærdesanger) of the season, a beautiful male Bullfinch (Dompap), and a Sedge Warbler (Sivsanger) was heard by János! 

Lesser Whitethroat (Gærdesanger) caught today  

In the afternoon the whole team went out to Nordstrand to finalise the set up of nets of our CES ringing site. After the efforts and installation, we were rewarded on our walk back with the sightings of 5 flying Spoonbills (Skestork), a Pallid Harrier (Steppehøg), a Wryneck (Vendehals) and even a White Stork (Hvid Stork) earlier in the afternoon.

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

People at the station: Alvin Johansson, János Schadl, Alix Bortolussi, Julian Helbig, Dylan Daunt, Simon S. Christiansen, Søren