Walking, Birding, Ringing

Today was a good day at the ringing station! We had many birds during the first round (about 40 birds) and surprisingly less during the next rounds, but it was a good occasion for Justine to train at ringing.

Rosalina and Angela worked for a fulmar (Mallemuk) project today, looking for dead fulmars from Højen around the peninsula back to the Grey Lighthouse in Skagen. They didn´t find any fulmars but two Gannets (Sule). The goal of the program is to study the gut contents of the fulmars to see if can find some plastic, which could explain how are they are affected by this pollution.

Robbie and Thor also had a great day today observing the migration with Knud. They counted ; around 3000 Common Scoters (Sortand) in one hour; 300 Meadow pipits (Enpiber) in an hour; about 500 resting Eiders (Ederfugel) and two Grey Wagtails.

Ringmærkning –

Kabeltromlen

Blåmejse              2

Bogfinke              1

Fuglekonge         1

Gærdesanger      1

Gærdesmutte     7

Gransanger         15

Jernspurv             13

Munk                    5

Rødhals                25

Rørsanger           2

Rørspurv              1

Tornsanger         2

Total – 75

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Robbie Lawler, Amelie Zeller, Thor, Angela di Pumpo, Justine Costa, Bjarne, Edle, Marianne, Oluf Lou, Jørgen Kabel Michael Fink og Knud Pedersen

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