American Black Scoter Spotted AGAIN, Bottlenose Dolphin and a Common Tern Resight

This morning I got up early to do the bird migration count at Worlds’s End Three on my own whilst Simon and Hayley were out bird ringing in the morning at Kabeltromlen. They did not catch very many birds to ring but they still ringed some nice birds, including a young Chiffchaff (Gransanger). The migration count started off a little slow, however, there were 460+ gulls roosting along the shore in the first hour. Within the second and third hour there were 60+ Gannets (Sule) diving, lots of Common Scoter (Sortænder) and the lovely Black Scoter (Amerikansk Sortand) which was also spotted on yesterday’s migration count. Their bill colour stands out very brightly during sunrise, which makes it easy to spot. The last hour was very slow with 6 Cormorants (Skarver) feeding and 100 + Gulls roosting. Some of the locals reported a flock flock of probably Bottlenose Dolphins.

Young Gransanger (Chiffchaff): Simon S. Christiansen.

After the migration count, I went back to the station to make some breakfast and input data from the morning count into the database. I then made some sea buckthorn marmalade with the guests Stig and Grethe which was enjoyable, and it tasted amazing too.

In the afternoon around 12:30pm, me and Hayley went to do the Cormorant (Skarver). The weather was nice and sunny, which made for good counting conditions. There were no fishing boats at the nets for the duration of the count which was a little unusual. There were also many gulls at the nets and many feeding and roosting Cormorants.

Once the count was completed Hayley went to get some food from the supermarket and I went home to input data from the count today.

Some exciting news… a colour ringed adult Common Tern (Fjordterne) read by Knud at Grenen on the 11th August turned out to be ringed by dutch ringers in Senegal on the 29th March this year!

In the evening Gustav returned to the station and then we sat down to have the nightly meeting with Simon and the others, then Hayley made a nice dinner. Hayley, Simon, and Gustav set out the Nightjar nets, but we unfortunately did not catch any to ring as the rain started and it was best to close the nets.

Tomorrow we will hopefully be going to ring some Great Snipes (Tredækker) in the morning, which will be exciting!

Ringing - (Kabeltromlen);

Munk (Blackcap) - 2

Tornsanger (Common Whitethroat) – 4

Rørsanger (Reed Warbler) - 2

Løvsanger (Willow Warbler) - 4

Gransanger (Chiffchaff) - 2

Gærdesmutte (Wren) - 1

Grå Fluesnapper (Spotted Flycatcher) - 1

Blåmejse (Blue tit) - 3

Broget Fluesnapper (Pied Flycatcher) - 1 

Total; 20

People: Hayley Land, Gustav Nyberg, Simon Kiesé, Rebecca Cheape, Simon S. Christiansen, Lisa Vergin, Knud Pedersen, Stig and Grethe.