Beach observations

In the late evening, Augustin and Simon went out night catching. No birds were caught. However, they had fun trying out the new thermal binocular whith which they saw bats, a fow, some waders and a seal. This meant a long outing. Ulysses and I woke up to check the weather to see whether ringing would be possible, sadly too much wind meant today we had to miss out on ringing.

Apart from wind, the weather was very nice which meant observations were still on. Augustin and Rosalina headed out at half five to World’s End 3 to meet with Knud. I joined them at half seven. The observations were successful with the usual hundreds of scoters (sortand) and gannets (sule). There was also a surprising number of fulmars (mallemuk) and great skuas (storkjove) out today. Some highlight species were 2 resting ruffs (brushane), 1 black guillemot (tejst) and 2 artic skuas (almindelig kjove). A grey seal was also spotted. I took some time off from observing to take some pictures of birds. The flock of sanderlings were being very tame and photogenic.

In the afternoon, we had a second session on moult, particularly on moult cards and split moults. It was really nice to be able to go through and it be explained in more detail. Ulysse and Rosalina set up two extra nets in reeds in the hopes of attracting sedge warblers (sivsanger) and other reed dwelling birds. Kirsten is making diner tonight and Ulysse is making desert for Augustin’s birthday.

Folk på stationen: Mathilde Ducroz, Simon S Christiansen, Ulysse Reverre, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen and Kirsten Bregn.

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