Thank God It's Friday!!

Happy Friday!

Today was a fairly quiet day here at Skagen Fuglestation. We woke up to the sounds of the wind whistling past our windows but decided to see how ringing would go anyway. Before leaving, we said bye to Mara as she heads back to her studies. Tue, Lucas (who arrived back late last night), and I headed out to the ringing site but could only open 10 nets due to the weather. Despite our hopes we ended up catching 0 birds for the first time this season. We still were able to have a nice morning outside though. There were a lot of Chaffinches (Bogfinke) and Bramblings (Kvaekerfeinge) and Simon and I cut down a few more trees and now we have a beautiful view to spot birds from.

Sunrise from Kabeltromlen

The observers (Rasmus and Cora) headed to Nordstrand to count migrating birds this morning. There were a lot of Chaffinches (Bogfinke) and one 2^nd calendar year Iceland Gull (Hvidvinge Måge). They headed to the Cormorant (Skarv) lake on the way back to monitor their breeding. They saw over 100 individuals. They also saw a Peregrine Falcon (Vandre Falk) on the way back.

A nice froggy I saw today

We had a fairly lazy afternoon. No one was super motivated to brave the wind but Tue did make a heroic journey to Netto to buy ingredients for dinner. I spent some time crocheting, I’m working on a gull and hoping to have it finished before I leave on the 15^th. My friend, Isabel, will also be arriving today for the weekend so I’m looking forward to that! Rasmus napped for maybe 4 hours. The weekend starts tomorrow and we’re hoping for at least one bird to hit the nets, the wind looks a bit better so we’ll see!

Ringing Highlights

Enjoying the great outdoors

Observation Highlights

Iceland Gull (Hvidvinge Måge) – 1

Peregrine Falcon (Vandre Falk) - 1

Today’s observations in Dofbasen from observers in the area

People: Cora Köberle, Rasmus Matthiesen-Juhl, Christopher Moser-Purdy, Tue Baaner, Simon Sigaard Christiansen, Knud Pedersen, Isabel Hunter, guests Marianne & Kurt.