Field trip!

Dante, Gitte and Hebe were up and out at Grenen by 6.15 or so this morning. Today was looking like the least windy day of the week so I opened some nets in the morning, and tried some crossbill calls for an hour on the off chance , but quickly changed it to redpoll. I caught a few birds, mostly redpolls, with one male blackbird and a great tit. Jens joined me most of the morning, before working on the bike I’d punctured the day before and changing the seat on it. At some point I assume he’s going to relax and actually have a holiday! We’re very grateful for both his and Gitte’s efforts though.

I had a bit of a kip after this, as the others made their way home. Hebe started work on the diary post, whilst Dante entered DOFBasen. Later in the afternoon a golden eagle was reported in Skagen so Dante and I dashed outside for a bit, I may have seen it briefly, but I think I got onto a white tailed eagle instead. Dante then went into the newsroom to chat to visitors, whilst I helped Hebe with entering the blog in the correct location on the Obs computer. Gitte took over the kitchen early afternoon, cooking and cleaning the kitchen as she went. At 3pm Knud turned up to take Dante, Hebe and I to look for Bewick’s swans. Whilst we sadly didn’t see any of those, we had a great afternoon with peregrines, white fronted geese and cranes in some flooded fields.

When we returned Gitte and Jens had laid on a fantastic spread with quiches and a fantastic danish cake. We devoured it all which saw the cake getting less attention than it should have done because we were so full! 

 People: Peter Denyer, Hebe Denny, Dante Shepherd, Jens Peter, Gette

The field trip team! 

Sangsvane, blisgås, grågås and Sølvmåge.