Festive meal after an adventurous day

Hey there!

Today, we all got the privilege to sleep a bit longer. Although we could use this sleep, Hanelie was too triggered to watch birds and joined Knud in the morning observations. She finally saw some bearded reedlings “Skægmejse”. Other nice species were the rough-legged buzzard “Fjeldvåge”, sandwich tern “splitterne” and black guillemot “tejst”. In the meantime, Alice and I woke up and stretched our legs for a short walk. Simon told us about a mysterious bunker so we set our goal today to find this bunker. Unfortunately we couldn’t find it although we had an adventurous walk through some mangrove-like forests with our waders. Back at Kabeltromlen, we checked the nets together with Simon, tightened them a bit and set up the tent.

For Simon, it was a short night because he had to a give a guided tour earlier this morning and heard a green sandpiper “svaleklire”. When we were finished, Hanelie arrived from the observations. She joined us with our second attempt to find the bunker. With the good indications of Simon, we found it this time. While exploring, Hanelie found her roots by disguising as a German soldier.

Back at the station I finished the nocturnal night call recordings of last week which you can find in this link:

https://trektellen.nl/count/view/2601/20220315

Among other things, I had a nice call of a wood lark "hedelærke", a long call of a coot "blishøne" and the nocturnal flight call of the waterrail "vandrikse".

Marion was already busy with cooking for tonight. We finally got to meet everyone working at the lighthouse (restaurant, exhibition and bird observatory). But therefore, we had to make a big meal for fifteen people. We cooked the whole afternoon for a big festive meal.

After his meeting about transect counts with recorders, Simon went to the shop to buy the drinks for the evening. All our dishes were just finished on time and we were ready for a lovely evening. Everyone was in a good mood and we all enjoyed the food and each other company. We couldn’t make it too late because tomorrow is the first day we are ringing, although I have to wait until Wednesday. See you tomorrow with our first ringing data!

Robbe

Today’s observations in Dofbasen from observers in the area

Sum of the Raptors in the area based on observations typed into Dofbasen the same day

People: Simon S. Christiansen, Robbe Cool, Hanelie Sidhu, Alice Scalzo, Marion L'Huillier-Hunsinger, Knud Pedersen,