Good indoor birding day

We actually expected that it would be raining this morning. But when we got up at 4:30 to check the radar we could see that the rain should come later. So Tue, Lucas and I went out to go ringing. While opening the Nets we saw a Short-Eared Owl (Moshornugle).  We had a slow morning at the ringing, we caught 15 birds. One of them was a beautiful but snappy adult female Blue Tit (Blåmejse), which I got to ring. Also the observers had a slower day.  But they had good numbers of Sandwich Terns (Splitterne) over 300.  When it started to rain many of the Wagtails came down to rest at the beach. Among them there also was a Pied Wagtail (Sortrygget Vipstjert) which was spotted by Andrew. 

Pied Wagtail (Sortrygget Vipstjert)

Because of the rain we stopped our fieldwork earlier. Back at the station we got a little more sleep. Later we cleaned the station and fed our new Mealworms (Melorme). After that we discovered that the table in the meeting room was finally free again, so we started a table tennis tournament. It was nice to play table tennis again.

Knud explaining how to identify a Montegu's Harrier

In the afternoon Knud came by to hold a presentation about determination, aging and sexing of Harriers. Also Simon, Lisa, Anders Boyesen, Morten Christensen came by to join the session. The talk was really nice and very instructive. We were again very impressed of Knuds nice pictures and videos of the Birds.  

Ringing (Kabeltromlen):

Gransanger 3

Rødhals 5

Gærdesmutte 5

Blåmejse 1

Jernspurv 1

Total: 15 

Highlights from the observations:

Pied Wagtail (Sortrygget Vipstjert)

Sandwich Tern (Splitterne) 321

Short-Eared Owl (Moshornugle) 

Today’s observations in Dofbasen from observers in the area

People: Rasmus Matthiesen-Juhl, Cora Köberle, Tue Baaner, Simon Sigaard Christiansen, Knud Pedersen, Mio Brix, Lucas Corneliussen, Andrew Jacobs, Lisa Vergin Anders Boyesen and Morten Christensen