Birds: “We hope you counters are awake and ready!”

During the last week, the team has found a good way to split the different tasks between them in a way, so everyone is happy. Simon (SK) woke up at 05.30, to have breakfast and prepare for the day to come. We headed to Worlds End 1, where we positioned ourselves on the dune, closest to kattegat.

From there we had a good overview. Maybe a bit too good, in the way, that there was an overwhelming amount of birds in the air, which had to be clicked at once. In the first hour, there was an astonishing amount of migration, which sadly went down pretty quickly, and completely stopped during the third hour of counting, which also were the reason why we quitted the observations an hour early.

The best species of the count was Arctic Skua, 6 (almindelig kjove, 6).

In the ringing it was all the same. They closed the nets at the same point, and we all went back to the lighthouse. We had a nice luch, before SK and I shortly after went out, looking for raptors during the afternoon. We headed towards Kapka Tagung, in the hope of seeing an Osprey.

On our way there, we accidently flushed eight Song Thrush, which shortly after became seven, due to a Sparrow Hawk (Spurvehøg). We counted eight Sparrow Hawks (Spurvehøg), 54 common buzzards and one Red Kite (rød glente). Unfortunately, we didn’t see any Ospreys, but noticed the big numbers of scoters (sortand), which were roosting close to the shore, next to the lighthouse.

We checked more than 2000 scoters (sortand), but whithout finding any rarities.

The rest of the day was spent indoors, due to the rain.

 

Ringing (Kabeltromlen):

Wren Gærdesmutte 3 RI

Dunnock Jernspurv 3 RI

Robbin Rødhals 2 RI

Blackbird Solsort 3 RI

Song Thrush Sangdrossel 3 RI

Chifchaf Gransanger 2 RI

Goldcrest Fuglekonge 9 RI

Bullfinch Dompap 1 RI

 

Ringing: (Jennes Sø):

Robbin Rødhals: 1 RI

Blackbird Solsort: 1 RI

Goldcrest Fuglekonge: 1 RI

Redpoll Nordlig gråsisken: 7 RI

Redpoll Lille gråsisken: 2 RI

 

Ringing: (Nordstjernevej):

Dunnock Jernspurv: 1 RI

Robbin Rødhals: 1 RI

Great Tit Musvit: 2 RI

Chaffinch Bogfinke: 1 RI

Redpoll Nordlig gråsisken: 3 RI

Total: 46