Little Auks and fixing nets

One more day without wind means one more day with nice late autumn/early winter weather. At the End of the World four tough counters sat, equipped with their clickers to count the passing birds. Fitting to the fresh weather a total of 8 Little Auks (Søkonge) passed by and made the observers happy. This cute and tiny Auk species has had strong days here, but we did not expect to see so many now, since the cold nothern wind is already gone. Many Greylag Goose (Grågås) used the leck of wind to migrate too. The last hour of the count was slower. This is kind of expected, because the most birds have already finished their migration here. In anyway, there are still many birds around and now some nice winterly species like a Rough-legged buzzard (Fjeldvåge) at the lighthouse arrived.

In the meanwhile the ringing team was at Kabeltromlen. We were still tired, because we went nightcatching last night. Unfortunately this time the Woodcocks (Skovsneppe) were jumpy, but we managed to handcatch a Fieldfare (Sjagger) and a Blackbird (Solsort). Both were sleeping on the ground in the wet scrubs near Ellekrattet. This morning at KAB there were not super many birds, but two Fieldfares (Sjagger), a new Firecrest (Rødtoppet Fuglekonge) and a recapture Firecrest were nice. Since it was not busy, we had enough time to finally fix all the big holes in the nets from this season. Luckily the nets were in good conditions. It took some time, but now all nets are fixed. The morning was very productive and I’ve got wet feet the fifth day in a row. This time because I’ve probably got a hole in my waders when we caught the Blyth’s Pipit (Mongolspiber). But it was definitly worth it!In the afternoon (which is now very short, because the sun sets early) we went to our raptor trap in order to get higher chances to catch one in there. Then we entered the data. October is always a super good month for birding, so I was much outside and had less time to do indoor and „office“ tasks. Now I’ve finally got the time to finish the last rarity report or write the article for the year report.

Ringing (Kabeltromlekrattet):

Total: 22

Ringing (Ellekrattet):

Fieldfare (Sjagger) - 1

Blackbird (Solsort) - 1

Total: 2

Overall total: 24

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

People: Mathilde Ducroz, Gustav Nyberg, Simon Kiesé, Thomas Weston, Knud Pedersen, Jacob, Poul, Ib, Simon S. Christiansen.