I dag åbnede Angela og Justine nettene ved Kabeltromlen kl. 7, og blev mødt af Robbie og Charlotte lidt senere.

Vi fik i dag 128 fugle. Blandt dem var 3 vindrosler og en bogfinke og et par dompap. Augustine var ude ved Verdens Ende 1 og observere. Han så bl.a. rødstrubede piber, en dværgfalk, skægmejser og bjerglærker.

Jeg assisterede Simon på en guidet tur for nogle studerende fra Hjørring som læser til pædagog. Efter lidt rundvisning og fortælling om ringmærkningens historie og udførelse, spillede vi et par lege og et etikspil med dem. Det var ret sjovt og satte gang i nogle gode debatter og diskussioner.

Eva og Klaus tog ud og observerede i dag og Eva tog nogle gode billeder af bl.a. en stenpikker og to tårnfalke.

Om eftermiddagen indtastede Justine og Angela data fra de mange fugle, imens Augustin og jeg fiksede stativet til vaderne ude ved Kabeltromlen, hvor vi derefter købte ind.

Billede af Eva Hvelplund

Ringmærkning – Kabeltromlen

Blåmejse - 10

Bogfinke - 1

Dompap - 4

Fuglekonge - 11

Gærdesmutte - 19

Gransanger - 14

Gråsisken - 4

Jernspurv - 16

Kvækerfinke - 2

Munk - 10

Rødhals - 18

Musvit - 5

Rødstjert - 1

Rørspurv - 5

Sangdrossel – 5

Vindrossel – 3

Total - 128

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Robbie Lawler, Angela Di Pumpo, Justine Costa, Charlotte Stewart, Lisa Vergin, Jørn Kabel, Rolf Christensen og Eva & Klaus.

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After some few ringing days, this morning I walked with Justine to World´s End 3 where we joined Knud, who welcomed us with a pretty view over two Horned Larks (Bjerglærke). Unfortunately the wind today was not very strong, which doesn´t make it the best day for migratng Seabirds. It was however a good training day to take notes and improve our bird counts and the number of passerines is better than the past days. Simon came by while we were there and he pointed at 7 Grey Wagtails (Bjergvipstjert) passing over our heads. On the other hand the ringing team consisting of Augustin, Robbie, Charlotte and Oluf was experiencing a good and great variety of birds, which is why Justine went helping them after some hours of observation.  After 3 hours Knud and me decided to walki down the dunes  to take notes of the ringed gulls and two hours after we were happy to see that we had found 21 rings, from Great black-backed gulls, from a Lesser black-backed gull and from Herring gulls.. that is definitely a record!

It was a pretty rich day for ringing as well, as they had 87 birds today and 15 different species. Noteworthy mentioning are the Yellow hammers (Gulspurv), the Bullfinch (Lille Dumpap), the Redpolls (Lille Gråsisken) and a Meadow pipit ( Eagpiber), but the team also heard a flock of Bearded Tits (Skægmejse) and Oluf also spotted a Rogh-legged Buzzard (Fjeldvåge). The guests, Eva & Klaus, went visiting the ringing team today and Eva, who is an art photographer, took great pictures of them while ageing and sexeing birds on the field.

Photo: Eva Hvelplund

Since two school classes were coming to the lighthouse, Rosalina helped Simon by opening the nets in the old lighthouse garden, by extracting birds and taking care of the children which showed great interest in what Simon was teaching them. They will probably become great birdwatchers one day..fingers crossed!

The afternoon went by very quickly. We had a nice lunch, we did some data entry and tonight we will all watch a movie together before another exciting day in the field!

Ringmærkning (Kabeltromlen)

Blåmejse 20

Dompap 1

Engpiber 1

Gærdesmutte 5

Gransanger 16

Gråsisken 1

Gulspurv 1

Jernspurv 1

Kvækerfinke 2

Munk 9

Rødhals 11

Musvit 1

Rødstjert 1

Rørsanger 2

Rørspurv 3

Sangdrossel 2

Ringmærkning (Fyrhaven)

Gransanger 1

Rødhals 3

Gærdesmutte 1

Rødstjert 1

Munk 1 

Total: 84

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Robbie Lawler, Angela Di Pumpo, Justine Costa,  Charlotte Stewart, Knud Pedersen, Oluf Lou, Jørn Kabel og Eva & Klaus.

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This morning myself and Knud went observing and started off the day with a bang with a White-billed diver (Hvidæbbet Lom) early on in the session. The Horned larks (Bjerglærke) from yesterday continued to show well in front of Wold’s End 3 once again, however, the total number of birds dropped significantly after the first hour. Despite the low number of bird we were treated with a couple of Caspain gulls (kaspisk måge) later on in the session.

The others went ringing with Oluf and Simon but also didn’t see high numbers. After the session most of us went out to look for some Red Crossbills (Lille Kornsæb) near ElleKrattet and we were rewarded with great views.

Unfortunately, another weak Guillemot (Lomvie) was brought to us today, which we have fed some fish in the hope of release tomorrow; fingers crossed for the best result for the bird.

Another day of ringing and observing awaits tomorrow.

Ringmærkning – Kabeltromlen

Blåmejse – 6

Fuglekonge – 4

Gransanger – 11  

Lille Gråsisken – 1  

Jernspurv – 2

Munk – 5

Musvit – 6

Rødhals – 2        

Rørspurv – 3

Sangdrossel – 1

Total – 41

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Robbie Lawler, Angela Di Pumpo, Justine Costa,  Charlotte Stewart, Oluf Lou og Eva & Klaus.

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This morning Robbie and Carlotte opened the nets at Kabeltromlen for a busy day of ringing, they caught 73 birds in total today, most of them were blue tits (Blåmejse) and the first Siskin (Grønsisken). They were joined by Angela and Simon, Rosalina came by later to give her first guided tour for a group of university college students from Hjørring, she had quite a lot of fun explaining the ringing and the work at the station to them.

While they were ringing me and Justine were observing with Knud and I spotted an adult Pomarine Skua (Mellemkjove) and adult Arctic Skua (Almindelig Kjove), this was very cool! We also saw the first two Horned Larks (Bjerglærke) resting in front of us this morning.

In the afternoon we had a delicious lunch and entered the data from the day. After that we all went out again to go for walks of fix nets at Kabeltromlen. The new guests in the apartment Eva and Klaus went for a walk on the beach to do some birdwatching in town to go shopping today. In the evening we attempt to catch Jack Snipes (Enkeltbekkasin) again.

Ringmærkning – Kabeltromlen

Blåmejse - 36

Fuglekonge - 1

Gærdesmutte- 5

Gransanger- 9

Grønsisken - 1

Jernspurv - 1

Kvækerfinke - 1

Munk - 2

Rødhals - 3

Rørspurv - 3

Total - 62

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Robbie Lawler, Angela Di Pumpo, Justine Costa,  Charlotte Stewart og Eva & Klaus.

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Yesterday during the evening, Angela and Simon went night catching to catch some Jack Snipes (Enkeltbekkasin). After one hour and a half walking in reed bed with a thermal binocular, they finally caught one!

This morning the weather was too bad to go observing or ringing: everyone slept a bit more and had the time to enter some last data. 

This afternoon, we had a session about Chiffchaffs (Gransanger): What species and subspecies can we see here at Skagen, and how can we recognize them. The second part was more about aging Chiffchaff by founding the moult limit.

Despite the bad weather, Robbie, Charlotte and Augustin went out for a walk and do some bird watching!

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Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Robbie Lawler, Angela Di Pumpo, Justine Costa og Charlotte Stewart.

Today we ringed in the morning an hour later than usual due to the bad weather. Augustin, Angela and Justine opened the nets this morning. Angela and Justine talked to Cafe Blink about a deal where the station might be able to get some of the nice leftovers they have a couple times a week. We look forward to that.

Robbie and Charlotte went observing this morning and found a guillemot (lomvie) on the beach. It was very weak, and Charlotte carried it to the lab where we let it rest for a couple of hours. Luckily it wasnt injured or anything when they found it, just starving. A couple hours later, Lisa came with some fish for it and she and Augustine fed it. We let it rest and this afternoon it was very happy and healthy, it ate and bit our fingers which is a good sign. Unfortunately we can’t ring it because we don’t have the correct ring for it. We let it go on the beach behind the lighthouse before sunset, and the guillemot, which we named Guillermo, and it swam away with a belly full of handfed fish :)

We hope it will continue to be healthy and happy.

Ringmærkning – Kabeltromlen

Blåmejse – 1

Fuglekonge – 4

Gærdesmutte – 2

Gransanger – 21

Jernspurv – 1

Løvsanger – 1

Munk – 5

Musvit – 2

Rødhals – 14

Rørsanger – 1

Rørspurv – 3

Tornsanger – 1

Ringmærkning – Jennes Sø

Gærdesmutte – 3

Rødhals – 5

Solsort – 1

Gransanger – 6

Fuglekonge – 4

Blåmejse – 4

Nordlig træløber – 1

Bogfinke – 2

Kvækerfinke – 2

Nordlig gråsisken – 3

Lille Gråsisken – 106

Rørspurv - 2

Total - 190

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Lisa Vergin, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Robbie Lawler, Angela Di Pumpo, Justine Costa og Charlotte Stewart, Pernille Roed.

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We got a bit more sleep than usual today because we decided not to go out observing this morning due to the bad weather. After our breakfast Michel Ancher came by to say hello and pick up some sheets for his ringing site at Jennes Sø. After that we had a lot of time to clean the bird observatory in the morning, we all helped each other out so we were done by lunchtime. Then we prepared a delicious lunch and went grocery shopping in the city.

When we came back Angela showed Charlotte and Justine how to make gluten free banana bread! While they were baking i went out to watch some birds around the lighthouse, and Rosalina drew some birds on the sofa. Angela is preparing te dinner tonight and after that we will plan the interantional birdwatching day wich is tomorrow with Simon.

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Robbie Lawler, Angela Di Pumpo, Justine Costa og Charlotte Stewart.

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There was no ringing today on account of the poor weather, that didn’t stop us getting out into the field and seeing some great birds though. Augustine, Justine, and Angela went observing today and saw 3 great skuas (Storkjove) and a few hours later saw 2 Jack Snipe at Strandengssø (Enkelbekkasin). There was a small session of ringing this afternoon in the lighthouse garden.

Charlotte and I started off a walk at Højen and walked back along the beaches to the lighthouse looking for any washed-up seabirds so they could be sent for examination to better understand the causes of death. On the walk we spotted some interesting birds; including a Raven (Ravn) which showed quite well as it flew off; a very close Black-throated diver (Sortstrubet Lom), and a Snow bunting (Snespurv) as we passed Kattegat bunker. We also spent some time looking for a Yellow-browed warbler (Hvidbrynet Løvsanger) which was seen by Simon yesterday, unfortunately, we weren’t so lucky.

Brent Goose (Knortegås)

Ringmærkning Det Grå Fyr          

Gærdesmutte – 1           

Total – 1

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Robbie Lawler, Angela Di Pumpo, Justine Costa, Charlotte Stewart og Rolf Christensen.

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The sun had not yet risen today as me and Rosalina were cycling to open the nets under the moonlight, but a bright light and a wonderful view welcomed Justine, Simon, Robbie and Charlotte when they joined us for the first round. Even though we didn´t catch many birds today, we had a great time. I feel it helps sometimes to be able to take some extra minutes to carefully look at the birds and improve our measurements under Simon´s supervision. And while we all gathered there at the Kabeltromle a Great Egret Heron (Sølvhejre) flew by, leaving us excited and speechless.

Augustin, on the other hand, was having a good time observing at Grenen with Knud and, lucky enough, they saw another Sooty Shearwater (Sodfarvet Skråpe). I am saying «another» because yesterday Robbie spotted one while observing and Knud took a great video of it flying ad dancing with the waves. If you would like to see the video, it is available on our Youtube channel (click here). But that´s not it! Here below you can also see a picture taken by Augustin of a Reed bunting (Rørspurv) chilling on the dunes’ vegetation.

And while on a walk today afternoon, Simon spotted a Yellow-browed Warbler (Hvidbrynet Løvsanger) at Højen Fyr. What a day!

Last but not least, Augustin uploaded today the recent notcturnal migration counts. If you want to see the numbers from the the 20th of September click here, and click here for the night of the 15th of September .

Blåmejse 8

Dompap 1

Fuglekonge 1

Gærdesmutte 5

Gransanger 5

Jernspurv  1

Munk 7

Musvit 2

Rødhals 4

Rørsanger 2

Rørspurv  4

Total      -  40

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Robbie Lawler, Angela Di Pumpo, Justine Costa, Charlotte Stewart, Knud Pedersen

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Angela and Robbie went observing this morning. The weather was really nice and Angela could train herself identifying gulls and count Eiders (Ederfugl). All the observers had the chance to observe pretty well a Sooty Shearwater (Sodfarvet Skråpe) at the tip (see our youtube video) and two Caspian Gulls (Levantmåge).

Augustin and I opened the nests this morning. Rosalina came for the first round and we all trained at ringing and applied the lessons that we had on Saturday to age the birds by founding the moult limit. The last round was one of the busiest with a group of Blue Tits (Blåmejse) and two Lesser Redpolls (Lille Gråsisken). 

During the afternoon, we went to observe and recognize birdsongs with Simon. We saw our first Snow Bunting (Snespurv) of the season! A really good observation for the end of the day !

Ringmærkning - Kabeltromlen

Blåmejse -7

Fuglekonge - 6

Gærdesanger - 1

Gærdesmutte - 5

Gransanger - 5

Lille Gråsisken - 1

Havesanger - 1

Jernspurv - 10

Munk - 6

Rødhals -5

Rørspurv - 4

Sangdrossel - 1

Tornsanger - 1

Total - 54

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Robbie Lawler, Angela Di Pumpo, Justine Costa, Charlotte Stewart

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