Skovhornugle, Vindrossel, Almindelig kjove og Storkjove

Hi folks!

I really hope you had a great week and are now looking forward to the weekend ahead! :)

This morning was extremely exciting for us!
Laima and Daniel left to open nets at 4:50 am as sunrise was at 6 am. Jonas and Rasmus woke up at 5:20 am, and I tried to sleep in as I had the day off. I woke up very confused to Rasmus waking me up, telling me that a Long-eared Owl (Skovhornugle) had been caught at Kabeltromlen! Since they didn't have the rings and Jonas had to bring them, I had about 10 minutes to get ready and go to see it, and it was the best thing ever!! She was a very calm, lovely second-year female.
Now a bit of a backstory: Daniel flushed a bittern while opening the nets on the south side, and activated the reed trap. Once he opened the last net, he saw a big bird in the first net on the north side. Because it was dark, thinking it was a Woodcock (Skovsneppe), he ran towards the net but failed to see the rope holding the pole up, tripped over it, and faceplanted in the mud. The bird was still in the net, and after that fall, he was super excited to see it was a Long-eared Owl (Skovhornugle)! He got caught by her talons though, but succeeded in the extraction. :)
Long-eared Owl :))))

Daniel practicing wing measurement on a bigger bird

While Laima ringed the owl, Daniel went on the next round and actually came back with the first Redwing (Vindrossel) of the season!! What a great start to the day. :)

After the Redwing got processed, Jonas and Rasmus left for Nordstrand to meet up with Knud for morning observation, I went back home and started sorting the 1 000 pictures I took with the station's camera.
The day slowed down in the ringing area with a total of 17 birds ringed. Marianne and Kurt came to see the ringing, and so did Oluf, Jorgen, and Igor.
After closing the nets at 10:30, Laima and Daniel got surprised by flushing a really closeby Bittern (Rørdrum), and that was the first ever for Laima; and a Great-grey Shrike (Stor tornskade) was hanging around the nets. :) They then set the two new nets up, making it a total of 23 nets.
Jonas and Rasmus came back at 10:30, with highlights such as a total of 12 Arctic Skuas (Almindelig kjove) and 1 Great Skua (Storkjove).

Simon is a brand new man as he got his hair cut and his beard trimmed. He went to meet Michael Ancher at Jennes Sø this morning and caught 3 Redpolls. Here you can see a comparison between Mealy Redpoll (Stor Gråsisken) and Lesser Redpoll (Lille Gråsisken).

Mealy and Lesser Redpolls

Marianne and Kurt went to Frederikshavn to see the harbour.

After lunch, Jonas left to see his nephew, his sister and her partner as they are here to visit for a week, and in the meantime, we all took a nap. Daniel entered Data, Laima worked on preparing the lecture video we had the other day, Rasmus then went to Storsig and saw two Black Kites (Sort Glente) and an Osprey (Fiskeørn)! He then prepared dinner with Laima, while Daniel and I went for a walk and failed at taking pictures of Sandwich Terns (Splitterne) feeding really close by. We did get to see a Long-tailed Duck (Havlit), and Common Eiders (Ederfugle) displaying.

As the days are getting longer, we will soon be going to bed! Have a lovely evening and talk to you soon. :)

Ringing (Kabeltromlen):

Skovhornugle 1
Gransanger 1
Fuglekonge 1
Rødhals 4
Jernspurv 6
Gærdesmutte 2
Musvit 1
Vindrossel 1

Sum 17

Ringing (Jennes Sø - Nordstjernevej):

Jernspruv 1
Rødhals 3
Solsort 1
Fuglekonge 2
Musvit 3
Bogfinke 5
Nordlig Gråsisken 2
Lille Gråsisken 1
Grangsanger 1
Kvækerfinke 1

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

Folk: Simon S. Christiansen, Michael Ancher, Jørgen Kabel, Igor, Knud Pedersen, Oluf Lou, Marianne and Kurt, Rasmus Matthiesen-Juhl, Laima Bagdonaite, Jonas Pedersen, Daniel Bloche og Michaela Berdougo.