Some spring birds in the bog!

Morning observations:

Gulls and Sandwich Tern "Splitterne" on a sandbank. Picture: Marit Nillissen

This morning, the weather looked good again. The visibility was good, so Thomas and I could luckily go to the morning observation! The migration was way better than the other days this week, we saw around 2000 Common scoters “Sortand”! The variety in species was also pretty good. We even saw a Short-eared owl “Mosehornugle” flying to the station’s garden! I was hoping it would fly into the nets, so Hanelie and Anne could ring it, but unfortunately that didn’t happen. During the morning observation, Hanelie and Anne had caught a Collared dove “Tyrkerdue” and asked me if I wanted to ring it and of course I wanted to. So I went down to the stations garden to ring the Collared dove. It was a new ringing species for me and the biggest bird I ever ringed.

Today’s observations can be seen here.

After the morning observation, Thomas and I had joined the ringing for the last two rounds, but no birds in the nets. But it was nice to have a walk through the gardens.

The ringing:

Today’s ringing meant walking a lot without catching many birds. Nevertheless, Marit got a new handspecies, which was another Collared Dove “Tyrkerdue”. She was observing today but we called her so she could also ring one. The other new bird was a blackbird. Today there was no highlight in the recaps.

Todays Collared Dove "Tyrkerdue". Picture: Marit Nillissen

The moths:

It was quite windy during the night, but I still caught some moths, although it was just three different species today.

Xylocampa areola/ Gedebladugle. Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

(Bird-) news from Blåvand:

In the afternoon, Anne, Marit and I went to the opening of the new exhibition of the lighthouse museum for the 125^th anniversary of the lighthouse. Now there are some information plates, also about birds around the lighthouse.

In the afternoon, I went two the bog. It was rather quiet but I had a great highlight just before I wanted to go back: I saw four Ring-Ouzels “Ringdrossel”. After dinner, David also went to the bog to go birding in the last light and had a possible Bluethroat “Blåhals” singing! Would be great to have one of these in the nets!

At the station: Joseph Stephan, Marit Nillissen, Anne Hjortlund Hansen, Thomas Kristensen, Hanelie Sidhu, David Manstrup