I dag startede dagen med at Martina og jeg åbnede nettene. Det var en fin morgen med en del fugle. Senere kom Daniel Bloche, som også var her for 2 uger siden, og derefter Fanny, Kirsten og Simon. 

Klokken 08:15, gik Simon og jeg ned til parkeringspladsen for, at samle det første hold til en guidet ringmærkningstur, efter lang tid. Det gik rigtig godt:)

Efter morgenobsen og -mærkningen, tog vi hjem, og slappede af/sov. Jeg havde belsuttet at tage ud til Flagbakken næsten lige efter jeg kom hjem, og da jeg var ved at være klar til at smutte, bliver der meldt "CITRONVIPSTJERT!!" ud ved Grenensøen. Ser den meeeeega godt! :) Ser også trækforsøgene Lille Skrigeørn, derude. 

Tager derefter til Flagbakken og ser 1-2 Sort Glenter. Efter et stykke tid beslutter jeg mig for at begive mig hjem ad, men så bliver der meldt mulig DVÆRGØRN ud!! Så var det op på Flagbakken igen.

Det viser sig så at det er en sikker Dværgørn i dragten mørkform. Den overnatter ude ved Forbrændingen i industrikvarteret, så den kommer forhåbentligt i morgen!!!!!! :)

Fanny og Martina tog ud til Skarvsøen i dag for, at lave noget overvågning på kolonien. Der er stadig godt gang i kolonien derude!

Esben tog ud og så på rovfugle træk ved Store Klit. Af spændende ting som han så kan nævnes: Hedehøg, Lille Skrigeørn, Sort Glente, og Hvepsevåger.

Esben så desværre ikke Dværgørnen fra Store Klit af :( 

Vi håber så meget vi kan at den kommer i morgen (som den jo selvfølgelig gør ;) ).

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Folk: Esben E. Hansen, Martina Hillbrand, Fanny Rey, Simon S. Christiansen, Daniel Bloche, Kirsten, Michael Ancher, og Frederik R. Johansen.

Today, Esben and I opened the nets at 04:15, we also set up a new trap to try to catch the Water rail (Vandrikse ) with some cheese to attract them ! Maritina and Kristen joined us for the first round and Simon a bit later. It was a good day with 50 birds ringed, a bit quieter them yesterday but with more variety of species and most important two great recapture from England! One Black cap (Muke) male and one Pied flycatcher male (Broget Fluesnapper). We are very exciting to see when they have been ringed!

Kristen has ringed her first birds today so she was very happy and feel very confident about the next steps so this is great and we are all very happy to help her in her learning.

We also had the second Meadow pipit (Engpiber) of the season and a Spotted flycatcher (Grå Fluesnapper) than mostly Willow warbler (Løvsanger) like usually and Common white throat (Tornsanger). We didn’t succeed to catch the Water rail but we will try again the next days!

Frederik was observing at Grenen and at a very nice observation of an Artic skua (Almindelig kjove) hunting a Stern very close to the observation spot, this is definitely a very good time to observe that specie! He gets to eat a nice chocolate ice cream form the shop at the parking lot offer by Simon!

During the afternoon we heart about a Lapland bunting (Lapværling) around at Grenen so Frederik and I went to try to found it, unfortunately it was already gone but it was a nice walk around the tip.

Ringging (Kabeltromlen):

                Gransanger – Chiffchaff                                 1                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Havesanger – Garden warbler                       4                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Dompap – Bullfinch                                         1                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Munk – Black cap                                             4                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Tornsanger – Common white-throat              11                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

                Engpiber – Meadow pipit                              1                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Gærdesmutte – Wren                                    2                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Broget Fluesnapper – Pied flycatcher       1                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Rødstjert – Common redstart                     2                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Gærdesanger -Lesser white throat           3                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Løvsanger – Willow warbler                         14                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

                Rødhals - Robin                                            3                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Grå Fluesnapper – Spotted flycatcher         1                                                                                                       

              Sangdrossel – Songtrush                               1             

Sum: 50 for 14 species

Folk: Martina Hillbrand, Frederik R. Johansen, Esben E. Hansen, Kirsten, Christian Andersen Jensen, Yørgen Hulbok, Jørgen Kabel, Henning Ettrup, Simon S. Christiansen and  Fanny Rey

Todays observations in Dofbasen from observers in the area

After some days with fewer birds today has been a good day for ringing again. Just from walking through the dunes you would never guess that so many little birds are stopping here for the day before they continue their migration towards the north at nightfall. The beauty of bird ringing is that you can detect all those birds that otherwise would go mostly unnoticed. This way we can also get a good feeling of how wind and weather affect birds on migration. Winds are turning south now so we expect more migrants to pass through the next few days, however it is possible that with the good winds they will go faster and not stop here at Skagen before crossing the sea.

Today we ringed mostly willow warblers (løvsanger). The other advantage of bird ringing over simple observation is that you can measure the birds which helps to sex them. Therefore we know that today we caught mostly female willow warblers which generally migrate later than the males. This indicates that willow warbler migration is already coming to an end, whereas the migration of Acrocephalus warblers only just begins.

It was impressive to see how these little birds must have arrived just after we opened the nets at 4 in the morning. The first net check was good but a lot of birds only arrived for the second net run. Many of these then were obviously very tired and after ringing often stayed on or right next to the ringing table before they flew off again. The long ways they travel every year appear even more impressive when you hold such an exhausting little bird in your hand and think of the fact that it has seen more countries than you ever have. And without an airplane.

For the rest the ringing was also interesting as we had a total of 14 species, among which also two bearded tits (skægmejse), a male and a female, which made our ringers and some visitors very happy. Setting up the new nets yesterday obviously was worth the effort. By now we have a nice mixture here of birds that are already breeding in the area where we have set up the nets and birds that just pass on migration.

Fanny did the migration counts this morning and managed to take this beautiful picture of a Merlin that came really close.

Ringed birds (at Kabeltrommlen):

Garden Warbler - Havesanger - 5

Lesser Whitethroat - Gærdesanger - 4

Dunnock - Jernspurv - 2

Pied Flycatcher - Broget Fluesnapper - 1

Common Redstart - Rødstjert - 3

Robin - Rødhals - 3

Wren - Gærdesmutte - 1

Willow Warbler - Løvsanger - 39

Bearded Tit - Skægmejse - 2

Reed Warbler - Rørsanger - 1

Icterine Warbler - Gulbug - 1

Blackcap - Munk - 1

Yellowhammer - Gulspurv - 1

Redwing - Vindrossel 1

Total: 66

Folk: Martina Hillbrand, Frederik R. Johansen, Fanny Rey, Esben E. Hansen og Kirsten

Todays observations in Dofbasen from observers in the area

I dag har vinden endelig lagt sig, efter mange dage med hård vind. Det blæser dog stadig fra nordvest men det kommer til at vende lige om lidt :D

Fanny og jeg åbnede net. Simon, Kirsten og Martina kom ud til første net runde. Og fint gik det i dag 32 nye ringmærkede fugle, hvor næsten alt var sangere. 2 Flotte landsvaler var de fedeste fugle i ringmærkningen og de er virkelig flottentæt på, helt skinnende mørkeblå. Martina er ny frivilig på stationen.

Landsvale (F, 2k+)

Håret mosaikguldsmed hun, billedet er taget ude ved et af vores ringmærkningsnet.

Highlights fra morgenobsen var 3 islommer, hvoraf 1 kom rigtig flot. 8 storkjover og 3 alm. kjove.

Om Eftermiddagen lavede vi 2 nye netbaner, så vi har nu 21 net.

Ringmærkning: (Kabeltromlekrattet)

Havesanger – Garden Warbler – 5

Gransanger – Chiffchaff – 2

Tornsanger – Common Whitethroat – 4

Gærdesanger - Lesser Whitethroat – 8

Løvsanger – Willow Warbler – 10

Landsvale – Barnswallow – 2

Munk – Blackcap – 1

Sum: 32

Folk: Simon S. Christiansen, Frederik R. Johansen, Fanny Rey, Esben E. Hansen, Martina og Kirsten

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Blæsevejret fra vest fortsætter. Frederik og jeg var ud på en halv morgenobs ved verdens ende før vi skulle trodse vejret og prøve at åbne net ved kabeltromlen. Det lykkedes at åbne nogle få sammen med Simon og Fanny. Vi var heldige, 3 fugle var der at vise frem over Naturmødes Online Livestream. Fanny var ude at tage billeder før vi åbnede net, og Simon var en kort tur i radioen på p4. Livestreamingen kan stadig ses på dette ved at klikke på dette link.

Simon fremviser Havesanger på livestream

Highlights fra morgenobsen var 3 almindelige kjover og 1 storkjove.

Eftermiddagen stod på datacheck, indkøb og Billearkiv.

Ringmærkning: (Kabeltromlekrattet)

Havesanger – Garden Warbler – 1

Gransanger – Chiffchaff – 1

Tornsanger – Common Whitethroat – 1

Total: 3

Folk: Simon S. Christiansen, Frederik R. Johansen, Fanny Rey, Esben E. Hansen og Kirsten

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Last night we went night catching with Frederik around the beach: Because it was very windy, we thought that we get a chance to find a bird resting on the beach. Unfortunately, we weren’t lucky and didn’t found any bird on the beach only a passerine sp who flew away far from us, we are not very lucky with this night catching. We need to have a day with a lot of rain maybe to help us and be more hide with the weather.

Nina and Sverre left last night while Esben came back.

Today, I went observing at Grenen, despite the strong wind it was a very nice morning observation with some sea-birds migration with a lot of Fulmar (Mallemuk) very close to the shore so very nice to observe! Three Great Labbe (Storkjove) and one Artic Labbe (Almindelig Kjove) along with good numbers of Gannet (Sule).

Freerik and Esben stayed at the observatory to work on indoor duties, Esben worked on the raptor summary and Frederik on the picture archive of the station, very studies morning as you can see on the picture.

This afternoon we had a special delivery from Esben Eriksan who brought us some poo from a wolf !!! That he found on the forest in Skagen so maybe the wolf it still around Skagen and we get  a chance to see it ! Simon keep it previously on the freezer of the observatory for some analyse maybe.

With Frederik we work on the ringing data this afternoon. We tried to put the trap outside with some warms to catch Wheatear (Stenpikkere) or Whinchat (Bynkefugl) who are around the lighthouse one the rocks but the trap was bluw away with the wind, no chance to catch anything today…

We post a new video on our youtube page, if you haven't seen it yet, it's this link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaAdMmyIeTg

People: Simon S. Christiansen, Esben E. Hansen, Frederik R. Johansen and Fanny Rey

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I dag tog Fanny, Sverre og jeg til kabeltromlen for at ringmærke et par timer, inden vinden begyndte at tage til, omkring kl 8 og vi var nødsaget til at lukke nettene ned. Det smed blandt andet en fin lille fuglekonge og en smuk solsort af sig, blandt tornsangere, gærdesangere, munk, havesangere og en enkelt gransanger, bogfinke og løvsanger. Michael mærkede imens ved Jennes Sø

Frederik tog ud for at træktælle i morges og fik set steppehøg og to islommer!

Efter fællesrengøringen i eftermiddags, tog Sverre og jeg os en sidste dukkert i havet og tager i aften videre mod Lille Vildmose og takker af for et fantastisk ophold her på stationen <3

Ringmærkning (Kabeltromlen + Jennes Sø) :

                Havesanger         4                                            

                Munk                    3                                                                                         
                Gransanger          1    

                Rørspurv             1                                            

                Tornsanger          1                                            

                Gærdesanger      4  

                Rødhals               3                             

                Løvsanger           2

                Musvit                 2 

                Bogfinke              1     

                Dompap               2

Sum: 24

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Folk: Sverre Schou, Nina Ali, Frederik R. Johansen, Fanny Rey og Michael Ancher

Today Nina, Sverre and I went at Jennes sø for the CES second session of ringing. During this session we caught 14 birds with one Eurasian Jay (Skovskade), the second of the season! We also had a very nice observation of the Cuckoo (Gøg). A school class of second grate from Skagen visit us and we had time to show the children a little Willow wabler (Løvsanger). We had to stop the CES ringing at 10.30 but Michael kept going the ringing and get some more bird with 2 more Jay and one Crested tit (Topmejse), lucky guy !

 Frederik went observing the migration at Grenen. There were more migration today then the past days and he get to do a very nice observation of an Artic Skua (Almindelig Kjove)hunting and roasting close to the beach !  And I learned from Fredrik that they are mostly eating other birds ! and sometimes fish.

This afternoon we finished to analyze the sound form the night migration recording of the 28 of April and we put the data on Trektellen, you can see the numbers and species with this link : https://www.trektellen.nl/count/view/2601/20200429

Ringing (Jennes sø) :

                Havesanger         1                                             

                Munk                    2                                                             

                Musvit                  2                                                             

                Rørspurv             2                                             

                Tornsanger          2                                             

                Gærdesanger      1   

                Rødhals               2                             

                Løvsanger           4                             

                Skovskade          3             

               Bogfinke              1

              Topmejse            1   

              Blåmejse             1                                                                                                                    

Sum: 22

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People: Sverre Schou, Nina Ali, Frederik R. Johansen, Mikael Ancher and Fanny Rey

I dag startede Fanny og jeg med at åbne nettene. Der var ikke mange fugle i nettene i dag, men tilgengæld fik vi en stor beløning i form af en Pungmejse!! En han endda. Den sad nede ved Verdens Ende, i toppen af nogle buske i kanten af Grenen Engsø. Den sad fint frit fremme og kaldte. Super fed fugl!!

Påvej hjem sad der en dejlig Rødrygget Tornskade tæt på Det Grå Fyr.

Nina og Esben tog ud og observerede i dag. De var også så heldige at se den fine Pungmejse:)

Senere henpå eftermiddagen, togen Fanny, Nina og Sverre du til Jennes Sø, for at sætte net op til CES ringmærkning i morgen.

Ringmærkning (Kabeltromlen):

Gærdesmutte - 1

Rødhals - 1

Tornsanger - 4

Munk - 2

Gransanger - 3

Løvsanger - 5

Sum: 16

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Folk: Fanny Rey, Sverre Schou, Nina Ali & Frederik R. Johansen.

Dagens ringmærkning startede godt med en gøg kukkende i baggrunden mens den første runde blev gået mellem nettene. På trods af den stærke blæst gik der alligevel 31 fugle i nettene, som stille og roligt blev lukket en efter en i løbet af formiddagen som vinden tog til. Dagens store højdepunkt var ringmærkningen af en spurvehøg han som til sin overraskelse pludselig fandt sig selv fanget i et af vore net.

Frederik, der var suset ud mellem klitterne på morgenobservation, gik desværre endnu engang glip af en spurvehøg i nettet, men fik i stedet observeret lidt forskelligt, blandt andet et par mallemukker og en enkelt islom.

Eftermiddagen gik med et besøg til Skarv-kolonien hvor der skulle genobserveres. Resultatet blev små 60 voksne fugle med omtrent 30 liggende på reden og en dejlig udflugt mellem klitterne.

Vi blev naturligvis også nød til at lægge vejen fordi Skagen havn, hvor vi dog ikke fandt den topskarv vi søgte, men i stedet et par tejster, hvilket der var udmærket tilfredshed med.

I alt fangede vi 26 fugle, og heraf to genfangster:

Munk: 7

Tornsanger: 5

Havesanger: 2

Gærdesanger: 3

Rødstjert: 1

Spurvehøg: 1

Gransanger: 1

Løvsanger: 3

Spurvehøg: 1

sum: 26

Vores kære Rita havde været forbi med en lykønskningsgave i anledning af fuglestationens 3. år på vingerne som blev nydt om aftenen til afslutning på endnu en dejlig dag i toppen af Danmark.

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Folk: Fanny Rey, Sverre Schou, Nina Ali & Frederik R. Johansen.