Sooty Shearwater and Yellow-browed Warbler

The sun had not yet risen today as me and Rosalina were cycling to open the nets under the moonlight, but a bright light and a wonderful view welcomed Justine, Simon, Robbie and Charlotte when they joined us for the first round. Even though we didn´t catch many birds today, we had a great time. I feel it helps sometimes to be able to take some extra minutes to carefully look at the birds and improve our measurements under Simon´s supervision. And while we all gathered there at the Kabeltromle a Great Egret Heron (Sølvhejre) flew by, leaving us excited and speechless.

Augustin, on the other hand, was having a good time observing at Grenen with Knud and, lucky enough, they saw another Sooty Shearwater (Sodfarvet Skråpe). I am saying «another» because yesterday Robbie spotted one while observing and Knud took a great video of it flying ad dancing with the waves. If you would like to see the video, it is available on our Youtube channel (click here). But that´s not it! Here below you can also see a picture taken by Augustin of a Reed bunting (Rørspurv) chilling on the dunes’ vegetation.

And while on a walk today afternoon, Simon spotted a Yellow-browed Warbler (Hvidbrynet Løvsanger) at Højen Fyr. What a day!

Last but not least, Augustin uploaded today the recent notcturnal migration counts. If you want to see the numbers from the the 20th of September click here, and click here for the night of the 15th of September .

Blåmejse 8

Dompap 1

Fuglekonge 1

Gærdesmutte 5

Gransanger 5

Jernspurv  1

Munk 7

Musvit 2

Rødhals 4

Rørsanger 2

Rørspurv  4

Total      -  40

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Robbie Lawler, Angela Di Pumpo, Justine Costa, Charlotte Stewart, Knud Pedersen

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