Goodbye Ulysses hello Storm Petrel

Rosalina and Ulysses opened the nets this morning at Kabeltromlen for a fun morning of ringing in the morning light. We caught our first Goldcrest (Fuglekonge) of the autumn, what a colorful little beauty! After closing the nets, the volunteers went back to the station to get a little bit of rest and to say goodbye to Ulysses, this was his last morning at the Bird Observatory, he will return home and begin is second masters degree in Zurich, Switzerland. We all wish you the best for your future studies and a lot of fun when hopefully visiting the Antarctic for your PhD. It was nice to have you here you will be missed!

In the afternoon Rosalina went to Grenen to hand out some flyers to some tourists for the Grå Fyr Museum and advertise the station while I was out at Kabeltromlen to sew some nets. In the evening the two of us and our guest Ellin set up the nets on the beach again for a new night of catching Storm Petrels (Lille Stormsvale). After that me and Simon drove to a field near Skagen to see if we could find a Great Snipe that has been seen there earlier, unfortunately we didn’t find any birds. As we were about to head to another field, we got a call from Anders and Ib, they came from Kopenhagen to watch the nets during the night for us, with the exciting news of a Storm Petrel in the nets! So we immediately drove back, on our way back to the station we picked up Lisa and I got to ring my first Sorm Petrel! It was a male from the third calendar year with similar measurements to the first one we caught a week ago.

Ringmærkning – Kabeltromlekrattet

Jernspurv – 3

Rødhals – 2

Rødstjert – 5

Rørsanger – 2

Gærdesanger – 2

Tornsanger – 3

Havesanger – 1

Løvsanger – 3

Fuglekonge – 1

Blåmejse – 1

Lille Gråsisken - 1 

 

Ringmærkning – Jennes Sø

Gærdesmutte - 1

Rødhals - 1

Rødsjert - 4

Solsort - 2

Rørsanger - 3

Tornsanger - 1

Gransanger - 7

Lævsanger - 5

Fuglekonge - 3

Topmejse - 1

Lille Gråsisken - 8

 

Ringmærkning – Grenen

Lille Stormsvale - 1

 

Total – 61

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Ulysse Reverre, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Ellin, , Henrik Rask Aders Wiig Nielsen og Ib Jensen.

Klik her for at se dagens observationer fra Dofbasen af fugle i Skagen