Goodbye János :(

This morning started out a bit messy as all 3 of us (Alvin, Julian and I) overslept and ended up being way too delayed to conduct the CES ringing session we had planned on doing. In the end, after deciding we were too late and after a few more hours of sleep, we got up and spent some time with our beloved János who was leaving in the late morning. 

We were all so sad to see him leave, and it was hard to see such an important part of the spring team leave us! We all enjoyed multiple months together and working on many projects, but now it was time for him to go back to Germany to prepare for his next adventure, Mongolia!! We all wish him well and thank him for all he taught us. 

After his departure, Julian set off to go trim some vegetation at the CES site while Alvin and I went on a walk on the beach to try to located some Ringed Plover (Stor Præstekrave) nests or chicks, and we got lucky to find one nest with 4 eggs! 

Ringed Plover nest with 4 little eggs!

We will be monitoring this nest and hopefully the chicks will be successful and Julian and the Summer Team can go ring these small guys later. 

On the way back we went swimming as the day had gotten quite warm, and so did Julian before coming back from the CES site at Nordstrand. 

In the meantime, Simon was going some big spring cleaning and organising in our attics at the station and in the lab. 

The day ended with a nice meal made by Julian, and we all got some rest, as now a team of only three… 

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

People at the station: Alvin Johansson, Julian Helbig, Alix Bortolussi, Simon S. Christiansen