Snipes and Skippers

Because of the rain this morning we were able to sleep in and Simon was so nice to wake up early to check the weather for us (thank you Simon). Around 7 the rain stopped and we could do migration count and ringing.

Today Mio and Moritz did the migration count which was slow, but not boring. A bit of shorebird migration kept things going with highlight being good amount of common snipes (Dobbeltbekkasin) and a migrating Curlew sandpiper (Krumnæbbet ryle).

At the ringing we only caught 6 birds today (one recapture) and the highlight was the blackbird which was a new ringing species in Skagen for Jule. We also saw a bunch of snipes from Kabeltromlen, which was really cool. We were visited by a French family at the ringing, they brought cake and it was very “hyggeligt”.

After ringing i went south of Skagen to find the rare butterfly Silver spotted skipper (Kommabredpande). The species was once quite common in Denmark being found all over the country, but can now only be found in select parts of eastern and northern Jutland. I counted six individuals and to pairs of them seemed to be breeding which was good to see.

Silver spotted skipper/Kommabredpande/Hesperia comma. Pictures by Alexander Nyholm

Today we also (unfortunately) had to say goodbye to Alfred who stayed here for the last 5 days. He will no doubt be back at sometime in the near future.

Highlights count

Krumnæbbet ryle

Ringing (KAB)

Tornsanger – 2

Munk – 1

Solsort – 1

Musvit – 1

Total 5

People: Jule Tappe, Mio Brix, Simon Kiesé, Katia Kit, Moritz Morteani, Alfred Godsk Geckler, Alexander Nyholm, Simon S. Christiansen