Windy but nice

I woke up at 4:20 today and could hear the wind howling outside our room. I was doubtful we’d have a good morning ringing but Mara, Janna, and I went out and set up the nets. We could only set up 9 out of 22 due to the high winds. Despite this it ended up being a fairly good morning! We caught 10 birds including recaptures, the majority were Blackbirds (Solsort) and Robins (Rødhals). We also got our first Great Tits (Musvit) – a male/female pair that decided to take a romantic trip into the net together.

A wren getting his new jewelery

Lucas, Cora, and Rasmus headed to Nordstrand to do the morning migration count. The morning started out fairly busy and then petered out as the day continued on. They got some high passerine numbers - 6000 Chaffinches (Bogfinke),  and a few hundred Brambling (Kvækerfinke). Also some interesting raptors with 3 Rough-legged Buzzards (Fjeldvåge) and a Peregrine Falcon (Vandrefalk).

In the afternoon I went on a walk to the beach and learned that there are starfish here!!!! That was very exciting. I came back and walked in on the Germans listening to 99 luftballoons on full blast, I’m assuming this is something that happens every day in Germany. We took the rest of the afternoon to clean the house and organize a few things.

Starfish!

The weather looks very windy for tomorrow so we aren’t expecting to do any ringing but hopefully the observations will be nice!

Observation Highlights

Chaffinches (Bogifnke) – 6000

Rough-legged Buzzard (Fjeldvåge) – 3

Peregrine Falcon (Vandrefalk) – 1

Ringing (Kabeltromlen)

Gærdesmutte – 1

Rødhals – 2

Solsort – 2

Gransanger – 1

Total – 6

People: Lucas Corneliussen, Cora Köberle, Janna Ouedraogo, Mara Glane, Rasmus Matthiesen-Juhl, Christopher Moser-Purdy, Henrik Møller Thompson

Link to todays observations in Dofbasen from the Skagen area