Prepareation for the ringing season

When we woke up early in the morning, we could not even see the Kattegat due to heavy fog. Without the physicalic possibility to see birds, you can’t count them so we stayed and had a nice after-sleep-nap. Highly motivated as always we decided to set up the first nets at Kabeltromlen. We want to start ringing next week, so some preparation is necessary.

It was still foggy but there was no wind. This brought us some nice birds like two singing Bitterns (Rørdrum), Treecreeper (Træløber) or White Wagtails (Hvid Vipstjert). We did very well and soon we had 120m of nets up. Then some raptors started migrating, too.

In the meanwhile, Simon Sr. collected some samples in nothern Denmark for a cool project.

Looks like he did very well, right?!

In the afternoon, the weather became worse but after finishing „The big year“ and watching an documentary about Twitchers we went for one more walk to the beach. After a nice dinner (thanks to Johanna and Magnus) we finished the day with some data entry.

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: Mira Kieckbusch, Isis Khalil, Magnus H. Lauritsen, Simon Kiesé, Johanna Veentjer, Simon S. Christiansen.