Bad weather day

Morning Observations:

This night very stormy, but luckily it cleared up before Thomas and I went to obs. We were hopeful it would stay dry, but after 5 minutes, it started raining really hard again so we had to go back to the station.
After half an hour, it cleared up again. Thomas and I grabbed our scopes again and went back to our spot. We didn’t have good luck because now the sea was completely covered in fog. But it was dry so we stayed a little bit and did a resting bird count. After that we headed back to the station, when it started raining again.
A morning with some bad luck. Hopefully tomorrow will be better!

Todays observations can be seen here.

 The ringing:

I had the nets in the station garden open for two rounds today, longer was not possible due to the rain.

Ringing totals:

Gransanger 1/0

Musvit 0/1

After the nets were closed and the weather had turned bad, I enjoyed some more sleep and some pages of my new book, then it was time for lunch and a walk in the bog and back at the beach. Highlights were a Bluethroat „Blåhals” and I was happy to see that also the 1K Stonechats ”Sortstrubet Bynkefugl” are already out of their nests. At the Little Tern ”Dværgterne” fence I saw quite a lot of Terns inside the fence, hopefully Joseph will have some interesting observations tomorrow.

In the evening it was time for some datacheck. Tomorrow the weather will be better and we are hoping for some nice birds and moths.

Today the deer was resting under one of the nets in the lighthouse garden. Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

At the station: David Manstrup, Joseph Stephan, Thomas Kristensen, Marit Nillissen, Emma Gray, Levi van den Os and Hanelie Sidhu