Today Frederik, Esben and I went ringing at Kabeltromlen. Simon joind us for the second round. The two first round where very nice with a lot of birds and then it went very slow just in 30 minutes which was very surprising ! With all this bird we had some very nice surprise, in the same round we get, a Crested tit (Topmejse) and Water rail (Vandrikse) and a Greenish warbler (Lundsanger)!!!

The Greenish warbler it the first caught for this species for Skagen bird observatory.

Frederik get to ring his first Jay (Skovskade) today, he will remember of the bite ! We also had the visit of Athena and her very cute dogs, she was volunteers here during the first year of the observatory. We haven’t so much time to observe migration with all this bird today but we still saw Hen Harrier (Blå kærhøg), a Oriole (Pirol) was seem in Ellekratette. The Little Bittern (Dværghejre) was still observe at the Cormorant colony today.

During the afternoon we all had all a good nap after this good morning and then work on the computer.

This evening a new volunteer came, Amandine from France which is going to be there until end of August.

Esben made a very nice Barbecue for all of us and frieds tonight with a special dessert form Denmark that I forget the name of course but was very nice !

Ringing (Kabeltromlen):

                Gransanger        1                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Bogfinke              2                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Havesanger        3                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Tornsanger         5                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Munk                    14                                                                                                                                                                                                          

                Rødstjert             1                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Gærdesanger    1                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Sivsanger             1                                                                                                                                                                            

                Kærsanger          10                                                                                                                                                                                                          

                Rørsanger           11                                                                                                                                                                                                          

                Topmejse            1                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Lundsanger        1                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Solsort                  1                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Sangdrossel        1                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Vindrossel           1                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Skovskade          1                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                Vandrikse            1             

Sum:                      56

Folk: Esben E. Hansen, Simon S. Christiansen, Frederik Johansen, Athena Valentin Jensen, Amandine Dore, Fanny Rey

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Vækkeuret ringede 02.30 hvor vi skulle ud og åbne net, denne gang blev det Martina og Anders. Vi andre kunne sove en time længere.  Første runde var god og sådan var det resten af dagen indtil vi lukkede net kl. 12, hele 81 nye ringmærkede fugle. Hvoriblandt 2 karmindompap.

 Kl 11.00 sprang jeg fra, for jeg skulle hjælpe Niels med en guidet tur rundt i reservatet.

Highlights fra morgenobs var, Rosenstær, pirol og Sortstrubet lom.

Om eftermiddagen blev der tjekket ringmærkningsdata og lavet andre praktiske ting lige indtil der blev meldt en dværghejre ved Skarvsøen, som vi skulle ud at prøve at se.

Rødstjert                2

Sivsanger               2

Kærsanger             9

Rørsanger              8

Gulbug                  10

Tornsanger             6

Havesanger           6

Munk                     19

Gransanger           1

Løvsanger              2

Bogfinke                 5

Grønsisken             2

Karmindompap       2

Dompap                  2

Rørspurv                 1

Gærdesmutte          3

Gærdesanger          1

Sum:                      81

Folk: Martina Hillbrand, Esben E. Hansen, Lars Bo Jacobsen, Anders Brinkmann, Simon S. Christiansen, Niels Eriksen, Fanny Rey, Rune Sø Neergaard.

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This morning we all went ringing again. The migration count is now being done from Kabeltrommeln, so we could all stay together and help in the ringing. Anders is here over the weekend and also helped in the ringing to increase his experience. The morning was not all too exciting for ringed birds. It was not bad but no uncommon species. The only exception was the Eurasian Siskin (grønsisken).

Also a nice surprise in the early morning were two baby blackbirds (solsort) that are probably only just learning to fly and immediately ended up in a net. And then later in the morning again in another one. But it is good to know they are alive and healthy and they are the first birds born this year that we got to ring (apart from the tit chicks we ringed in the nest box).

Raptor migration was a bit more interesting with again a large number of honey bussards (hvepsevåge) and a white-tailed eagle (havørn). A couple red kites (rød glente) and, of course, the by now obligatory steppe eagle (steppeørn) – probably the same that has been here yesterday.

More down to earth there was again a greenish warbler (lundsanger) at ellekrattet this morning, which, this time is most likely really a greenish warbler. Fanny got a very good picture of it.

The board of the bird observatory held a meeting today at the lighthouse.

Ringing at Kabeltrommeln:

Tornsanger – Common Whitethroat – 5

Gransanger – Chiffchaff – 3

Bogfinke – Chaffinch – 2

Havesanger – Garden Warbler – 6

Munk – Blackcap – 7

Sivsanger – Sedge Warbler – 1

Kærsanger – Marsh Warbler – 1

Løvsanger – Willow Warbler – 13

Grønsisken – Eurasian Siskin – 1

Rødhals – Robin – 1

Rørsanger – Reed Warbler- 3

Gærdesanger – Lesser Whitethroat – 2

Gærdesmutte – Wren – 2

Sangdrossel – Songthrush – 1

Solsort – Blackbird – 2

Total: 50

People: Martina Hillbrand, Esben E. Hansen, Lars Bo Jacobsen, Anders Brinkmann, Simon S. Christiansen, Niels Eriksen, Mark Desholm, Fanny Rey, and the board of the observatory

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This morning the weather was very windy and rainy so that means we could not open the nets and the birds won’t migrate as much. Thanks to that fact we had a nice long morning sleep all the three of us and a good rest!

During the morning we worked on the computer, Martina and Esben made movies for social media and I was listening to the sound recording of the night migration helped by Martina. You can find the result of the migration night of the 29 of May here: https://www.trektellen.nl/count/view/2601/20200530.

That was a quiet night compare to the other we had before, but we had a new species that we have heard before on night recording, a common Quail (Vagtel).

During the afternoon Martina and I tried to find the Citrine wagtail (Citronvipstjert) that Hans spotted on the morning. It was a female and he could get a nice picture of it. We unfortunately didn’t find her, next time maybe!

Then we went to the Cormorant colony to do the following of the breeding. Today we saw several chicks and parents who were feeding, it is not easy to see them because the nest is probably very deep but sometimes we see little beck pop up ! You can see on the picture we barely see the little chick! Also, there is still some bird who are incubating. We also heart and saw a Great Reed Warbler (Drosselrørsanger).

During the observation of the cormorant colony, Martina spotted a bird that land just near the border of the lake 20 meters from us and after some discussion and help by Peter an other birder they manage to identify that it was a Little Crake (Lille rørvagtel) ! Hans arrived sometimes after because we called him, we played the song of male and we found out it was a female because of her call when she answer the playing. Then she came out of the reef for some second and we manage to see her perfectly but she was very shy and hide very quickly.

Sometimes after the Zello message was made, many people from Skagen came to see her because it was a first observation for Skagen! The people manage to see her even if she was hiding behind the reef. While we were all looking to find the Crake a Steppe eagle (Steppeørn) flew just over our heads with three White-tail eagle (Havørn) !

We said goodbye to Hans and Birthe today, big thanks for Hans help once again ! We welcomed new guest who will stay at the observatory for the weekend.

People: Martina Hillbrandt, Esben E. Hansen, Mikael Ancher, Lars Bo Jacobsen, Peter Brodersen, Birthe and Hans Christophersen, Mark amd Malthe Desholm, Anders Brinkmann, Johanne, Rune sø Neergard, Mogens Neergaard, Simon S. Christiansen and Fanny Rey

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I dag ringmærkede vi både ved Jennes Sø og Kabeltromlen. Fanny og Martina ude ved Jennes Sø til CES mærkning, her mærkede de 11 fugle heriblandt Skovskade og Topmejse.

Jeg åbnede net før Lars og Troels havde lovet at komme ud at hjælpe med ringmærkningen. vi fik Ringmærket 28 nye fugle.
Hans var også ude imorges, Hvor han fandt en Buskrørsanger som nok er nr. 3 i skagen i år.
Senere var han på rovfugle obs ved pælebakkeklit, her var et stort træk at Mursejler.
Vi så under ringmærkning 3 Rosenstærer. Mens Hans så 6 Ved Batterivej.

Skovpiber

Efter Frokost har den stået på rengøring. Fanny og Martina var ude at hente data fra radiomodtagen, fra rødhalse projektet.

Ringmærkning: (Kabeltromlekrattet+Jennes Sø)

Sivsanger         1 
Kærsanger       5 
Rørsanger        4 
Havesanger     3 
Gærdesanger  2 
Tornsanger      5 
Løvsanger        1 
Munk                15
Skovpiber         1
Skovskade       1
Topmejse         1 

Sum: 39

Folk: Martina Hillbrand, Fanny Rey, Esben E. Hansen, Lars Bo Jacobsen, Troels Esk Ortvad, Hans Christophersen og Knud Pedersen

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During the night winds have turned south and we can immediately notice that in the songbird migration. Although yesterday was not bad, today we had one of the best days of the season again: 66 birds ringed! And although almost a third of them were blackcaps the morning was not boring at all. We ringed a total of 17 species!

After hoping for it for so long, Fanny could finally ring a cuckoo that Esben managed to scare into the net.

Also, after the first one a few days ago, we caught two more Red-breasted flycatchers today.

Redpolls are moving around in small groups and today we caught a really pretty adult male, shown by the pink on his breast.

As the seabird migration comes to an end a lot more people start hanging out at Kabeltrommeln rather than at World’s End, both for the better company and in the hope for rare birds in the net. We saw several golden orioles fly over and a short-toed eagle next to many finches, rose finches, kites, falcons and bussards again.

Also another Blythe’s reed warbler was recorded again today in Skagen.

Ringing at Kabeltrommeln this morning:

 Gransanger – Chiffchaff - 4

 Lille Fluesnapper – Red-breasted Flycatcher - 2

 Bogfinke- Chaffinch - 1

Tornsanger – Whitethroat - 6

Havesanger – Garden Warbler - 6

Munk – Blackcap - 18

Rørsanger – Reed Warbler - 2

Lille Gråsisken – Redpoll - 3

Kærsanger – Marsh Warbler - 3

Løvsanger – Willow Warbler - 8

Rødhals - Robin - 2

Gærdesanger – Lesser Whitethroat - 4

Gulbug - Icterine Warbler - 2

Rødstjert – Redstart - 2

Gærdesmutte – Wren - 1             

Solsort  - Blackbird - 1

Gøg – Cuckoo – 1

Total: 66

People: Martina Hillbrand, Esben E. Hansen, Lars Bo Jacobsen, Hans Christophersen, Knud Pedersen and Fanny Rey

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Today we went ringing at Kabeltromlen, now the mornings are very worm witch is nice and pleasant. We had a pretty nice first round with several birds and then it went slowing down but we had in total 40 birds which is nice! With some nice species, a Meadow pipit (Engpibe) and a Eurasian Jay (Skovskade), the species we caught the most is the black cap (Munk) as yesterday. Today we had more Marsh Warbler (Kærsanger) than the previous day.

We were in a good company today with a lot of observer at Kabeltromlen, that was very nice and Hans and Lars were counting passerines and raptors migration helped by the other observers. Thanks again to them for they very useful help. We had again some nice bird in migration today with Golden oriole, Ring ouzel, big folk of Red kite, several Black Kite and good number of Honey buzzard flying very low, amazing spectacle as we love them.

We received an answer from the ringing center about the recapture from yesterday of the Reed warbler (Rørsanger)! It was ringed in august 2019 as a 1 calendar bird near Stockholm so this bird was doing is first spring migration this year!

During the afternoon Hans was observing raptor migration and saw a close White tail eagle (Havørn) and took a very nice picture !

Martina and I went to the beach to try to find breeding Ring plover (Stor præstekrave) and we succeeded, we found at least 3 birds who were incubating, we haven’t seen any chicks yet. They are not easy to see and are very well camouflage with all the rocks around. We will come back in few days to not miss the hatching time because the chicks will move quickly from the place where the nest is after hatching to found food.

We said good bye to Jøgen Hulbæk today who went back to his home, it was very nice to spend some time in his company and we thanks him for his help in the migration counting!

Ringing (Kabeltromlen):

Engpiber – 1

Gransanger – 1

Gærdesmutte – 2

Gulbug – 1

Rødhals – 1

Skovskade – 1

Rørsanger – 4

Gærdesanger – 1

Tornsanger – 3

Havesanger – 1

Munk – 12

Kærsanger – 3

Løvsanger – 3

Grå Fluesnapper – 2

Bogfinke – 1

Sum:40

People: Martina Hillbrandt, Esben E. Hansen, Lars Bo Jacobsen, Hans Christophersen, Jøgen Hulbæk, Knud Pedersen and Fanny Rey

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Martina og Pernille åbnede net. Fanny kom ud til første runde, Simon og jeg var lige gået ud ad døren da vi fik meldingen om denne sæsons sjældneste fugl i nettet. En lille Rørsanger. Det var ikke kun den lille rørsanger der gjorde 1. juni til en spændene dag i ringmærkningen der var nemlig flere arter vi ikke fanger så tit, heriblandt karmindompap, Bjergvipstjert og en Rørsanger fra Sverige.Karmindompap Foto: Søren PoulsenLille Rørsanger Foto: Hans Christophersen

Det gik også godt ude på Verdens ende, hvor Henrik og Nicole havde morgenobsen, her kom der både Pirol, Rosenstær, Biæder og Sortstrubet Lom.Biæder restende ved kabeltromlen Foto: Søren Poulsen

Vejret var virkelig flot og så klart at man kunne se en luftreflektion af Sverige. Foto: Hans Christophersen

Vi havde nettene åbne til 11:30 før vi tog hjem. Efter frokost stod på lidt praktisk, Fugleposerne blev vasket, der blev handlet indk og også fundet tid til en kort dukkert i Kattegat.

Hans var om eftermiddagen ude og tælle trækket af rovfugle, på damsted klit og saftevandsbakken, hvor han så den lille skrigeørn højt ude over Kattegat, der var også Hvepsevåger, kongeørn, havørn og sorte glenter i luften.

Vi sagde også farvel til Henrik, Nicole og Pernille.

Ringmærkning: (Grenen)

Skovpiber – 1

Bjergvipstjert – 1

Gærdesmutte – 1

Jernspurv – 1

Rødhals – 2

Lille Rørsanger – 1

Rørsanger – 4

Gulbug – 2

Gærdesanger – 3

Tornsanger – 4

Havesanger – 5

Munk – 25

Gransanger – 3

Løvsanger – 5

Grå Fluesnapper – 1

Sortmejse – 1

Karmindompap – 1

Sum:61

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Folk: Fanny Rey, Martina Hillbrandt, Esben E. Hansen, Henrik Böhmer, Nicole, Michael Ancher, Lars Bo Jacobsen, Igor, Jørgen Kabel, Agnete, Birthe og Hans Christophersen, Simon S. Christiansen Jøgen Hulbæk og Pernille Roed

Esben og Fanny åbnede nettene ved Kabeltromlen kl. 3.30. Jeg stødte til dem kl. 4.30, og lidt senere kom Simon også. Det blev en stille dag med få fugle, så vi lukkede nettene tidligt. For mit vedkommende blev dagens ringmærkning en helt speciel oplevelse, eftersom jeg ringmærkede min første fugl - en havesanger! 

Michael var ved Jennes Sø, og han var så heldig at ringmærke 2 lille korsnæb.

Lille Korsnæb som fik en fin ring på af Michael.

Imellem runderne ved Kabeltromlen blev der set dobbeltbekkasin, lærkefalk, sølvhejre, hvepsevåge, tornsanger, gærdesanger, rørdrum og gulspurv mm. 

Imens vi andre ringmærkede, klarede Martina morgenobservationen sammen med Henrik og Nicole. Sortand, sule, lom, storkjove, strandskade, alk og lomvie var nogle af de arter, der blev set. 

I dag fik vi nye beboere i lejligheden, idet Birthe og Hans kom. De brugte det meste af dagen på Flagbakken, hvor de var så heldige at se den 2k slangeørn, som var blevet meldt ud på Zello. Udover slangeørnen så de mange hvepsevåger - hele 150-200 stk. Det må siges at være det bedste dag med hvepsevåger i år!

Og som om det ikke var nok, så Troels en 2k hvepsevåge, hvilket er specielt, idet de unge hvepsevåger plejer at blive i Afrika om vinteren. Det er kun de gamle fugle, der trækker nordpå. Det vil i så fald være første gang,  det er dokumenteret i Danmark. 

Søren Poulsens billede af den fine meget lyse slangeørn. 

Over middag tog Martina og jeg ud til Skarvsøen for at overvåge kolonien. Det så ud til, at de første unger er udklækket nu. I flere reder observerede vi små næb blive fodret. Det var en stor oplevelse af følge med i. På vejen ud til Skarvsøen så vi 6 musvåger. 

Aktivitet i rederne i skarvkolonien

Hjemme på Det Grå Fyr var Esben var i gang med at lave en video, imens den stod på haveabejde i  “annekset” hos Simon. Han har sikkert Skagens flotteste have nu ;-) 

Dagen sluttede med spændende undervisning i brug af sociale medier. 

Ringmærkning (Kabeltrommelkrattet og Jennes Sø):

Blåmejse: 1

Rørsanger -  2

Munk - 2

Havesanger - 2

Tornsanger - 2

Solsort - 2

Bogfinke - 1

Lille korsnæb - 2

Grønsisken - 2

Sum: 16

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Folk: Fanny Rey, Martina Hillbrandt, Esben E. Hansen, Henrik Böhmer, Nicole, Mikael Ancher, Søren Skov, Lars Bo Jacobsen, Igor, Jørgen Kabel, Agnete, Birthe og Hans Christophersen, Simon S. Christiansen og Pernille Roed

Today all of us were ringing at Kabeltromlen, the mosquitos are definitely here and we have to share the space with them for the first hours but when the sun is warming up the are gone which is nice! This morning was a quiet morning in the nets with around 25 birds but to make a good day we only need a good one... And that was happened and not just one but two actually! We had a Red-breasted flycatcher (Lille fulnaspper), a very cute 2 calendar bird that we could not sex because it is a young one. Martina was very happy because she was expected it for some days now and she will have a jump in the sea for it later in the afternoon!

The second interesting bird of today was a Reed warbler with an old ring and we found out it was ring here in 2014 ! So the bird is at least 7 years old ! It is very interesting to have data like that from our ringing so we can see that the bird are coming to the place they have been before and how old they can get.

During the afternoon Pernille arrived to spent the week-end with us. Simon made a session about the Acrocephalus and all the possible bird of this family we could caught here. It was mainly about Reed, March and Blyth’s warbler. It was very interesting and now we are more them ready to have the Blyth’s warbler in the nets in the next few days, one was actually caught at Blåvand an other ringing station in Danmark today.

Tonight, we had a nice barbecue in the lighthouse garden with some friend who came to share this time with us with the nice last sunshine of the day !

Ringing (Kabeltromlen and Jennes Sø):

                Lille Fluesnapper - 1                                                                                                                                                         

                Gransanger - 2                                                                                                                                                                    

                Munk - 3                                                                                                                                                                               

                Havesanger - 2                                                                                                                                                                    

                Tornsanger - 5                                                                                                                                                                    

                Rørsanger - 4                                                                                                                                                                       

                Gærdesmutte - 5                                                                                                                                                               

                Løvsanger - 3                                                                                                                                                                       

                Rødhals - 2                                                                                                                                                                           

                Sangdrossel - 2

                Sivsanger -1                                                                                                                                               

                 Musvit- 1                                                                                                                                                  

                Topmejse - 1                                                                                                                                                                       

                Bogfinke - 2                                                                                                                                                                          

                Solsort - 1           

Sum: 37

Folk: Simon S. Christiansen, Martina Hillbrandt, Esben E. Hansen, Henrik Böhmer, Nicole, Jørgen Hulbæk Christiansen, Karin Krogstrup, Pernille Roed, Knud Pedersen, Inge, Hanne & Jens Eriksen, Lars Bo Jacobsen, Mikael Ancher and Fanny Rey

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