Rain then sun

This morning we woke up and saw that it was raining, so there was no migration count and no ringing. We went back to bed. So we had a morning off. We woke up later and did some stuff. I worked on the night recordings from Simon’s garden. Thomas met his family at the lighthouse. We also said goodbye to Søren.

In the afternoon, the sun came out, so we all went for a walk. Thomas and this family went to the tip, then at Stokmilen. He saw some nice birds, like five Snow Buntings (Snevspurv), one Common Tern (Havterne) and one Purple Sandpiper (Sort grå ryle), not the same which we had ringed the other night. So we plan to try to catch it in the next days, if it is still here.

Purple Sandpiper (Sort grå ryle)

Mara and I tried to find the first Pine Grosbeak (Korsnæb) of the season. Mara went to the cormorant lake and finish her walk at the nature center. But she didn’t see many bird, just lots of sand.
I went to the radio station, then to the cormorant lake, and I ended my walk at the tip, where I also mostly saw sand and wind like Mara.

Yellowhammer (Gluspurv) 

This evening, a new volunteer came to join us for one week, Alexander. He comes from Roskilde. We welcome him with a nice dinner cooked by Thomas and this family.

Tomorrow we hope there won’t be too much rain so we can count the birds and go ringing.

People: Thomas Weston, Mara Glane, Emma Fabre, Alexander Nyholm.