Before sunrise till sunset

Today Esben, Christian and I went to open the nets at Kabeltrommelkrattet. There was a beautiful sunrise that preceded a really good ringing morning with a lot of variety.

It was nice to see 3 cute Treecreepers (Nordlig Træløber).

Not much later, Oluf joined us and we started the journey pending if his boots will be flooded or not during the ringing due to the rising water level at the ringing site after those rainy days. Unfortunately, the one that got wet was Esben.

After that, Simon joined us with a group of students from University College attending a guided tour. They were learning about bird ringing and afterwards, they played some games at the beach.

Meanwhile, Asger was observing at Verdens Ende 1 (seabirds and land birds). Also, Knud was at Verdens Ende 3 observing (mostly seabirds). All the observers in the field had a busy morning.
Some of the highlights of today were 12 Pine Grosbeaks (Krognæb), Pomarine Skua (Mellemkjove), Little Auk (Søkonge), a lot of flocks of Geese (Gæs) and Swans (Savner) and two Orcas (Spækhugger)!
Simon managed to see the Pine Grosbeaks (Krognœb) while we were taking the birds from the nets. He was really excited about it!  During the last days, he was talking about spotting them every now and then during the days.
During all this time, Judith was working with the radar with help of Asger and Christian while they were on the field. After that, she was working mostly indoors.

Then, all of us went back to the Observatory and had lunch before we went out again this time to Sardinekrattet in order to sew the nets before the closing of the site. We managed to repair up to 5 nets so far.

We collected some berries for tomorrow at the ringing site and then we returned back to the Observatory again.

We were doing indoor tasks (mostly on the computer).

Asger also went home during the afternoon.

Then Simon made dinner for us! It tasted really good!

And after that an evening radar session at Birders' Club.

To finish the day, Simon and Christian went out for a short night catch to Fyrhaven where yesterday Esben and I found a rusting Short-eared owl (Mosehornugle) that we saw flying away from us.


Ringmærkning (Kabeltrommelkrattet):

Sibirisk Gransanger - 1
Nordlig Træløber - 3
Fuglekonge - 3
Lille Dompap - 2
Rørspurv - 2
Blåmejse - 2
Munk - 7
Sortmejse - 2
Lille Gråsisken - 9
Gærdesmutte - 8
Rødhals - 5
Musvit - 1
Sangdrossel - 1

Total: 46

People: Simon S. Christiansen, Christian Stolz, Judith Kloibhofer, Laia Soler Iglesias, Asger Lykkegaard Møldrup, Esben Hansen, Rolf Christensen, Alex Sand Frich, Oluf Lou, Knud Pedersen, Jørgen Kabel & Igor