Kraftigt regnvejr over det vestjyske

Morgen observation:

Jeg fulgte min plan fra i går: Uanset hvor dårligt vejret blev lovet over Blåvand, ville jeg lige tage en tur derud forbi. Allerede på vej ud af døren føltes det dog som en halvdårlig idé, da det indebar at løbe gennem et mindre skybrud for at komme ud til bilen.

Turen til Blåvand foregik også i regn hele vejen – fra smådryp til utrolig kraftige byger.

Da jeg kom ud til stationen, tog jeg en lille runde på parkeringspladsen. På det tidspunkt regnede det faktisk ikke så meget, så jeg fandt mobilen frem og tjekkede diverse vejrtjenester for at se, om det virkelig kunne passe, at obsen ikke var mulig i dag. De var dog alle ret enige: Det ville blive en våd fornøjelse.

Jeg overvejede kort, om jeg skulle udnytte det tørre øjeblik og løbe mod Sabinebunkeren og tage obsen derfra. Men før jeg nåede at tjekke, om militærområdet overhovedet var åbent i dag, begyndte det at regne igen – og denne gang tog det til. Hurtigt.

Så regnen tog beslutningen for mig.

Jeg rullede væk fra parkeringspladsen og kørte lidt rundt i regnvejret, inden jeg besluttede, at det ikke blev til mere fuglekiggeri i dag – og satte kursen hjem igen.

THK

Ringmærkning:

With heavy rains and storms, it was really cozy to sleep in this morning, hearing the roar of the wind and the waves sounding almost like the Atlantic. I got up in the morning, hoping to start the ringing as soon as the rain stopped but instead it just kept building more and more and it wasn’t before 1 pm that we could finally get to work. That, of course, is the worst time of the day to try to catch birds under normal circumstances, but just after a very windy and rainy morning we thought that maybe birds needed to feed as soon as the weather improved so we tried our luck, nonetheless. We opened all the nets but soon found out that there were lots of birds moving in the dunes but none in the station garden so we closed the nets there, seeing that there was no standard ringing anyway.

This meant we had to chill up at the lighthouse, enjoying the sun with our books, and check the nets every half hour to take out the various whitethroats. There weren’t all that many birds we could catch but at least we seem to have caught a new family of common whitethroats (an old female and 3 juveniles). Probably they are from the area, if the female belongs with the juveniles. No migration yet. But this night looks very good for migration to finally start – although it is currently much warmer in Norway than it is here, so maybe the birds just decide to stay there for now…

MH

Folk på stationen: Estelle Cumin, Thomas Kristensen og Martina Hillbrand, Kim and Maria