Reward after cold observation morning

This morning we all four volunteers started again together with Knud the observation at Grenen. While yesterday was a nice, warm and sunny day, today the weather was cold and windy. However, we had a good number of Razorbills (Alk), Guillimots (Lomvie) and Gannets (Sule). Furthermore, we had relatively many Jackdaws (Allike) and other Corvidae migrating, so that the count of these species got quite overwhelming. A bit later Simon joined us at Grenen to try catching the Snow Buntings (Snespurv) again. They reacted very well on the corn we put out, though, we didn´t managed to catch them. The trap mechanism was slightly to slow for the fast reacting birds. But next time we gonna use another trap and then hopefully with more success. After Simon and our guests, Mette and Jesper, already left the morning observation, we stayed a bit longer in the unfriendly observation weather. And we got rewarded by a Puffin (Lunde) passing the tip a bit further distant. That was a great observation and a Lifer for Laima and me!

Simon trying to catch Snow Buntings

In the noon Mette and Jesper took Laima and me to the Cormorant (Skarv) colony. We were checking, if they already started breeding, but only a few birds were around and none of them showed signs of breeding. Later in the afternoon we put up the final nets and prepared everything needed for the ringing start tomorrow. We all are really looking forward. Also, we will be perfectly prepared now with the freshly made bird-bags from Oluf and Majbritt. Thank you so much for the bags! The first bird we transported in one of the bags, when we opened the nets at the Lighthouse this afternoon, was a House Sparrow (Gråspurv). A bird not that often caught by the Station and also the first bird for me,that I could ring this year. Later this evening we had a nice Pizza-Dinner together with Mette and Jesper.

Bird bags from Oluf and Majbritt

Klik her for at se dagens observationer indtastet i Dofbasen af observatører i området

Klik her for at se opsummeret observationer af rovfugle i Skagen

Ringing (Fyrhavn)

Gulspruv – 1

Gråspruv – 1

Sum: 2

Folk: Simon S Christiansen, Knud Pedersen, Oluf and Majbritt Lou, Mette and Jesper, Michaela Berduogo, Laima Bagdonaite, Jonas Pedersen og Daniel Bloche