An unexpected Obs morning

Today Simon and I attempted to do some ringing, we opened all three nets and flipped the trap and put some redpoll calls on. An hour and a half later I closed the nets after catching . . no birds! It was very strange, but it gave me the opportunity to to go and do some observations. So back down the road I went to look for the marsh tit. Once again I drew a blank, so I think it must have left. I had a pleasant morning though and went home via Batteriscoe where I found a bullfinch, for my Danish year list. Whilst I was out Dante was at North Strand with Knud, they didn’t see much but it was all good migration monitoring. Charlotte walked together shops along the beach to get us some much needed staples. She then worked on the results of her interviews here with all the volunteers and staff. Simon was overloaded with bookings for the apartment, planning a business trip for April and trying to get some more bedding for the season.

When I returned from the field, I had a quick lunch, and went straight upstairs to get on with net fixing, Dante joined me later and we worked on a particularly difficult net for a couple of hours. From there I got straight on with cooking the dinner (my usual, a chilli) cleaning the kitchen, going through yesterday’s ringing records for mistakes, entering DofBasen before finally sitting down at 8pm. We have a rainy day tomorrow according to the forecast so the evening meeting was mostly planning out tasks we could do inside tomorrow. Today was Charlottes last day, so we asked her thoughts on her experiences and take always from her first visit to Skagen.

The path at Batteriscoe, with the flycatcher tree on the right.