Rosalina and Ulysses opened the nets this morning at Kabeltromlen for a fun morning of ringing in the morning light. We caught our first Goldcrest (Fuglekonge) of the autumn, what a colorful little beauty! After closing the nets, the volunteers went back to the station to get a little bit of rest and to say goodbye to Ulysses, this was his last morning at the Bird Observatory, he will return home and begin is second masters degree in Zurich, Switzerland. We all wish you the best for your future studies and a lot of fun when hopefully visiting the Antarctic for your PhD. It was nice to have you here you will be missed!

In the afternoon Rosalina went to Grenen to hand out some flyers to some tourists for the Grå Fyr Museum and advertise the station while I was out at Kabeltromlen to sew some nets. In the evening the two of us and our guest Ellin set up the nets on the beach again for a new night of catching Storm Petrels (Lille Stormsvale). After that me and Simon drove to a field near Skagen to see if we could find a Great Snipe that has been seen there earlier, unfortunately we didn’t find any birds. As we were about to head to another field, we got a call from Anders and Ib, they came from Kopenhagen to watch the nets during the night for us, with the exciting news of a Storm Petrel in the nets! So we immediately drove back, on our way back to the station we picked up Lisa and I got to ring my first Sorm Petrel! It was a male from the third calendar year with similar measurements to the first one we caught a week ago.

Ringmærkning – Kabeltromlekrattet

Jernspurv – 3

Rødhals – 2

Rødstjert – 5

Rørsanger – 2

Gærdesanger – 2

Tornsanger – 3

Havesanger – 1

Løvsanger – 3

Fuglekonge – 1

Blåmejse – 1

Lille Gråsisken - 1 

Ringmærkning – Jennes Sø

Gærdesmutte - 1

Rødhals - 1

Rødsjert - 4

Solsort - 2

Rørsanger - 3

Tornsanger - 1

Gransanger - 7

Lævsanger - 5

Fuglekonge - 3

Topmejse - 1

Lille Gråsisken - 8

Ringmærkning – Grenen

Lille Stormsvale - 1

Total – 61

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Ulysse Reverre, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Ellin, , Henrik Rask Aders Wiig Nielsen og Ib Jensen.

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I dag ringmærkede vi ved Kabeltromlen og deriblandt var der sæsonens første rødhals :). Derudover forberedte vi  fællesspisningen til i aften, hvor vi spiser  sammen med Det Grå Fyrs personale og venner af fuglestationen.

Ellin har været ude og købe ind med Ulysses og Augustin og de har afleveret pant for 295 kr! Og så har hun set den fine udstilling i fyrhuset.

Ulysses skal desværre hjem i morgen og har været i gang med at pakke og lave mad til i aften. Augustin har været i gang med at ringmærke og skal også lave mad til i aften

Simon hørte at Henrik Rask havde set en tredækker i industrikvarteret på Minkvej. Vi prøvede også at fange en lille stormsvale i nat, men uden held.

Ringmærkning – Kabeltromlekrattet

Rødstjert – 9

Rørsanger – 2

Gærdesanger – 1

Tornsanger – 5

Havesanger – 1

Munk – 3

Løvsanger – 2

Engpiber – 1

Skovpiber – 1

Rødhals – 1

Gulspurv – 1

Broget Fluesnapper – 1

Total – 28

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Ulysse Reverre, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Ellin, Søren Skov, Henrik Rask og Lars Grøn.

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We went ringing today and it turned out to be a successful day at Kabeltromlen. We caught 54 birds in total, a juvenile Water Rail (Vandrikse) in the last round wich was a nice surprise when we were closing the nets and 15 Redstarts (Rødstjert), this is a short period where these beautiful Passerines are the dominant species at the ringing. Rosalina practiced her extracting and ringing skills and mastered the Steel ring closing on the Water Rail on her first try! Simon found  beautiful Camberwell Beauty (Sørgekåbe) butterfly. Our guest Ellin also joined the ringing and was very interested in our work, in the afternoon she went to a local history museum in Skagen.

In the afternoon me and Simon helped the bike mechanic to get all our broken bikes to fix them. Simon visited Jorgen Kabel, he has a butterfly feeder in his garden to watch them while they are feeding. We all got a bit of rest so we are fit for another night of trying to catch Storm Petrels on the beach.

Ringmærkning – Kabeltromlenkrattet

Vandriske – 1

Jernspurv – 3

Rødstjert – 16

Kærsanger – 1

Rørsanger – 9

Gærdesanger – 3

Tornsanger – 3

Havesanger – 1

Munk – 3

Gransanger – 4

Løvsanger – 2

Blåmejse – 1

Total – 47

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Ulysse Reverre, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen og Ellin.

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I dag var vi ude og observere på Grenen. Det var en meget smuk morgen og vi så en sælunge ligge og gasse sig i morgensolen på stranden :)

Derudover var der hundredvis af små søstjerner liggende i strandkanten.

Observeringen var ikke så begivenhedsrig i dag, men jeg fik skabt lidt turisttrafik på Grenen ved at dele brochurer ud. Det viser sig at jeg vist har et gemt talent for at sælge :)

Og så fik Ulysses og Augustin repareret spejlnettene ved Kabeltromlen. Det var der trang til.

Ellin var med ude og observere og var også meget fascineret af den smukke morgen og har været på Kystmuseet i dag inde i Skagen.

Ringmærkning - Fyrhaven

Rødstjert - 1

Total - 1

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Ulysse Reverre, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen og Ellin.

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Today everyone went out observing at world’s end 3, the last dune before the tip of Grenen. A few skuas (skarv) and a lot fewer common scoters (sortand) than usual: while the numbers often amount to a few thousands, today we only observed less than 150 throughout the 4 hours.

We took the opportunity to rest during the afternoon and catch up on shopping. Bringing kilograms of pasta sauce, canned goods, and beverages back on bikes with a strong headwind was our achievement for the day!!

Lisa and Simon went to the summerhouse of Simons family at Saltum, but late evening they went for another try to catch more Great Snipes (Tredækkere) at Lindenborg. It was succesful! With two birds caught! They where joined by Hans, Esben and Niels.

Ringmærkning - Lindenborg, Himmerland

Tredækker - 2

Ringmærkning - Fyrhaven

Rødstjert - 1

Total - 3

Folk på stationen: Simon S Christiansen, Ulysse Reverre, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Lisa Vergin, Esben Sloth, Hans Christophersen, Niels Eriksen og Elin.

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I dag gik turen til Jennes Sø da vi skulle ringmærke fugle ifm. projektet CES. Vi ringmærkede to adulte rødstjerter og én masse andre. Jørgen og hunden Igor kom forbi og sagde hej, og så fik vi også selskab af Rie og Andreas fra DOF. Simon og jeg tog afsted om formiddagen ud til Skiveren for at livestreame en fugletur hvor vi var på jagt efter at se den sortstrubede bynkefugl. Det var en succesfuld tur, og vi så to hanner og en hun.

I dag har vi budt velkommen til Ellin, den nye gæst, som kommer fra Svendborg og skal bo hos os til på søndag.

Augustin har været ude og dele flyvesedler ud på Grenen, og på hjemvejen så han en flok gravænder.

Ringmærkning – Jennes Sø

Rødstjert – 6

Rørsanger – 1

Gærdesanger – 6

Havesanger – 1

Munk – 2

Gransanger – 7

Løvsanger – 16

Broget Fluesnapper – 1

Grå Fluesnapper – 6

Ringmærkning - Fyrhaven

Kærsanger - 1

Total – 47

Folk på stationen: Simon S Christiansen, Ulysse Reverre, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Jan Spieierman, Lisa Virgen og Ellin

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Ulysses, Rosalina and me opened the nets at Kabeltromlen this morning although the wind was kind of strong. We were joined by Lisa, Simon, Jan, Grethe and Stig with the ringing. The board of Birdlife Denmark visited us today on the first two rounds at Kabeltromlen and Simon showed them a bit of our ringing work. Rosalina extracted her first birds from the nets and handled her first bird a beautiful male Munk and ringed her first birds, and Jan also ringed his first bird at the Station today, a lot of firsts today! We ringed quite a good number of birds today even though the weather conditions weren´t perfect, the highlight was a juvenile Spotted Flycatcher (Grå Fluesnapper) in one of the later rounds, also the first one I ever ringed.

Our guests Grethe and Stig went to the harbour in the afternoon but unfortunately the didn´t see any special birds. After the ringing we helped our guests from Birdlife Denmark a bit with cleaning the dishes and preparing coffee. The Volunteers were invited for dinner in the Blink restaurant at the lighthouse by the board of Birdlife Denmark for a delicious dinner in the evening.

Ringmærkning – Kabeltromlenkrattet

Rødstjert – 2

Solsort – 1

Rørsanger – 3

Gærdesanger -1

Tornsanger – 4

Havesanger – 1

Munk – 1

Grandanger – 6

Løvsanger – 11

Grå Fluesnapper – 1

Total – 28

Folk på stationen: Simon S Christiansen, Ulysse Reverre, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Jan Spieierman, Lisa Virgen, Grethe & Stig.

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The weather was unforgiving this morning… Lots of wind that made observations rough and with sand flying everywhere. Augustin, Rosalina, Jan and I had to hide behind a bunker to keep our scopes protected. With these windy conditions, we saw several great Skuas, foraging and harassing gulls for fish.

Simon and the rest of us have been preparing for the arrival of the members of the board of BirdLife Denmark (Danish Ornithological Society ó DOF in Danish). They joined us in the evening and held a board meeting. They will stay for the weekend and join us for the different activities.

We look forward to the wind settling down in the next few days so we can resume ringing at Kabeltromlen and Jennes Sø. In the meantime, our attempts at night catching have been unsuccessful, the ringed plovers (stor præstekrave) and dunlins (almindelig ryle) are way too elusive for our primitive catching technique.

Folk på stationen: Simon S Christiansen, Ulysse Reverre, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Jan Spieierman, Grethe & Stig og Sigrid Andersen.

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Som det blev nævnt i sidste opslag, var vi på nattur til Støvring og fik fanget og ringmærket den sjældne Tredækker! Vi kom dog først hjem kl. 3 om natten og fik derfor lov til at sove længe i dag. Grundet den kraftige vind og den lange aften i går har dagen på stationen stået på rengøring og forberedelse til fredag hvor der skal holdes bestyrelsesmøde. Sigrid Andersen, direktøren for DOF, og Niels Eriksen, bestyrelsesformand for stationen, kom med frokost til os ifm. et møde. Det blev vi meget glade for. Og så har vi næsten tømt glasset med Grethes hjemmelavede havtorn- og æblemarmelade!

Grethe og Stig har været en tur forbi Jennes Sø på blomsterkig og museumsbesøg i Skagen.

Vi har i eftermiddags haft en lille fotosession i mødelokalet hvor vi gennemgik forskellige fugle vi har ringmærket og diskuterede lidt frem og tilbage om fuglenes alder, køn og fældning, etc.

I nat skal Ulysses og Augustin på natfangst igen, denne gang er målet at ringmærke en Islandsk Ryle.

Folk på stationen: Simon S Christiansen, Ulysse Reverre, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Lisa Vergin, Grethe & Stig, Niels Eriksen og Sigrid Andersen.

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In the morning Rosalina and Ulysses went out for observations at Nordstrand with Jan Speiermann but strong winds and bad weather conditions unfortunately didn´t allow for a lot of bird sightings. While they were out me and Simon checked the stations bikes and prepared them for the bike mechanic to pick them up and repair some of them. The guests cooked some delicious Havtorn and apple marmalade yesterday and gave two glasses to us today, thank you very much Grethe and Stig! When Rosalina and Ulysses came back Simon checked some of the recent ringing data with Ulysses, after that Simon helped me with identifying and entering the voices from the night recorder I put out in the last nights to record some nocturnal migrations. We found some Golden Plovers, Grey Herons and Dunlins but nothing uncommon yet.

Click here for overview of the recording on the night between the 22nd - 23rd of August at Trektellen.

Click here for overview of the recording on the night between the 23rd - 24th of August at Trektellen

In the afternoon Ulysses baked a apple cake and Simon bought some sausages for a barbeque dinner at Simons fathers house in Støvring . After that we dove to a field nearby and  caught a Great Snipe (Tredækker), only a handful of those has been caught in Denmark so far. We got some help with the catching from Lars and Lars. This has been a very nice and successful trip to the South.

 Ringmærkning (Lindenborg, Himmerland)

Tredækker  - 1

Folk på stationen: Simon S Christiansen, Ulysse Reverre, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Lisa Vergin, Grethe & Stig , Lars Bo Jakobsen, Lars  Grøn, Jan Speiermann.

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