First ringed cormorant for the station!

Still very windy days now, between 15-20 meters per second but a little slower than yesterday that was vert strong. So this morning we split, Christian and Judith went for observation together with Knud Pedersen on the tip and I was walking on the beach from the observatory going north by foot trying to find some passerines and taking some photos. After yesterday was kind of slow day for birds, today was a little better with some nice movement of Red throated diver and nice numbers of Fulmars.

While I was walking on the beach I didn’t find many birds but I did see some nice Rock pipits feeding on the beach together with some Golden and Grey plovers.

After we all finished the observations, we went to the ringing sites to check if the strong winds have done any damage to the nets and our equipment. We had one net that needed fixing in the new ringing site but other than that our nets standing still and ready for ringing when the winds will slow down!

Then in the afternoon we all had some very needed sleep after long morning field work, Chris and Judith went for the daily swim and I stayed for some indoor work. Later we went shopping had a nice dinner tnx to Christian and had our evening meeting with our lovely neighbors Erik brodersen and Lis Krag that decided to join us after the meeting for night catching on the beach.

Soon after the meeting we left ready for some walk on the beach looking for roosting birds.

Almost instantly me and Judith spotted something weird on the rocks. It was very weird looking and wasn’t really moving while the waves hit it. I climbed on the rock and got very close to the bird that didn’t really care from me and very first I caught the first Great cormorant for the station!

We came back to station in less than 10 minutes with a bird! we took some measurements and ringed the bird that after some discussion we decided it’s a 3^rd calendar female.

After we finished with the bird we let it go back on the rocks and it flew to the same spot that we caught it.