Thrush Nightingale

For another sunny day, Mathilde, Augustin, and Sander opened the nets at Kabeltrolen whilst Ulysse and Frank settled on the dunes for morning observations. The observations did not lead to any particularly rare species: 2 common guillemots (lomvie), a razorbill (alk) and a velvet scoter (fløjlsand) floating amongst more than 1400 hundred common scoters (sortand).

Augustin rung his first bird here in Skagen: a Yellowhammer (gulspurv). A lucky start: let’s hope it continues like that for the next three months he’ll be staying at the lighthouse. The rare bird of the day came in one of the later round: a juvenile Thrush Nightingale (Nattergal), a first for all the volunteers. In the final round we captured our first juvenile marsh warbler (kærsanger) of the year, safe travels to it. The entire ringing session was calm with the birds spread evenly throughout the ongoing morning, a total of 26 over 5 hours.

Unfortunately, the juvenile kestrel (Tårnfalk) rescued after being hit by a car yesterday did not survive the night.

NocMig recorder sadly stopped working in the middle of last night and only caught one migrating birds’ call: a golden plover (hjejle).

Tonight, Augustin and Frank will try and look for the eiders (ederfugl) this evening and figure out their complex schedule for a future night catching session.

Dinner consisted of a deliciously cooked salmon with potatoes and cream prepared by our guests Thomas and Pia: the whole team (except Frank and Augustin of course) is ready to recover from our early morning with an early slumber.

Tomorrow we will all go ringing with Knud and hope for a bird-full day.

Ringmærkninge – Kabeltrolen

Tornsanger – 7

Munk – 2

Nattergal – 1

Gulspurv – 1

Musvit - 1

Gærdesanger – 3

Rørsanger – 7

Kærsanger – 1

Gransanger – 1

Havesanger – 2

Total - 26

Folk på stationen: Mathilde Ducroz, Frank Osterberg, Simon S Christiansen, Ulysse Reverre, Sander og Augustin.

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