Lots and lots of rain

Morning observations:

Today was my second time with the morning observations. Yesterday the vision was way too bad to actually see anything. This morning however we had great vision, able to see the windfarms in the distance. It was quite rainy however, but nothing a couple of umbrellas couldn't fix. The migration was a bit busier today compared to Tuesday with a decent amount of scoters “Sortand” and gannets “Sule”. There were also a couple of large flocks of common/arctic terns “Fjordterne/Havterne” and we spotted a white-tailed eagle “Havørn” flying by.

Todays observations can be seen here.

A rainy morning at the obs. Picture: Thomas Kristensen

The ringing:

When my alarm woke me up today, rain was drumming against the window. The weather forecast did not look so good, a lot of rain during the morning. But the rain stopped and one hour delayed, Anne and I were opening the nets. We were expecting that we might shut down the nets soon and that was right, we had two dry rounds, then we had to put them down again. But after less than 45 minutes, the rain stopped again. We saw new rain coming on the radar, but there was enough time to close the open the nets in the station garden again for one round, but we closed the lighthouse garden properly and after that round also the station garden and we were just in time before we were hit by the new rain front.

Antonia with her last Chiffchaff "Gransanger" ringed at the station for this time.

The moths:

Twelve different moth species today plus one sp., I caught Saturnia pavonia again but another individual that was not as worn as the last one and very beautiful. There were also two new ones for the season, which are in bold in the table.

News of the station:

Today was a big departure day, Antonia left back to Germany and also Joseph and Frida left, but Joseph will be back in a week.

At the station: Antonia Greil, Anne Hjortlund Hansen, Marit Nillissen, Emma Gray, Levi van den Os, David Manstrup, Hanelie Sidhu, Joseph Stephan and Frida