storm at the beach

It is still stormy and of course we took the chance to go out with the handnet last night in the hope to catch birds on the beach. But first we played "Turnstone" or "turn stone". Then Thomas and Simon sr. left. After about an hour they came back and brought back an unexpected bird. A female horned lark! Oha how cool! The females are a bit plainer in the face, but still have the yellowish colouring. The feathery ears are only partially visible, which also gave it the name "ear lark" in German.

Look at this beauty!

I spent the whole evening writing the rarity report of the Eastern Yellow Wagtail and doing a lot of research on the taxon and subspecies. A really confusing but super exciting topic. Since I was in the flow, I kept going and actually finished at 01:30am. After that I went to bed. In the morning I started with the Saturday cleaning and finally played some guitar.

Meanwhile, the others were in the storm at Grenen. There they were surprised by a wide variety of weather, but luckily there was more shelter from the wind today than yesterday. Several beautiful species flew by and even a Manx Shearwater (Almindelig Skåpe) flew out of the Kattegat. It's really impressive that it seems to have made it against the 20 m/s wind without any effort.

In the afternoon we looked at the ageing of some birds with Simon and then we went outside. Even if it was windy, some nice birds or in Gustavs case adders could be found.

Ringing (Jennes Sø):

Total: 7

A link to today's observations from volunteers and local observers.

People: Hayley Land, Gustav Nyberg, Simon Kiesé, Thomas Weston, Kirsten Bregn, Simon S. Christiansen.