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Morgen observation:

Obsen i dag mindede meget om i går. Vinden var nordlig, stort set fra samme retning og med samme hastighed – og det betød selvfølgelig endnu en utrolig sløv dag.

Men af en eller anden grund føltes dagen i dag endnu værre end de tidligere. Næsten ingenting trak. Kun nogle få strandskader kom forbi på afstand, og ud over dem var der ganske få andre fugle at se i luften.

Hele morgenen igennem var der kun meget få rastende fugle på stranden, og efter de første turisters ankomst stod der blot syv hættemåger tilbage.

Der var dog stadig en del rastende fugle ude over havet, og den store flok sortænder lå som vanligt på plads på vandet – men ellers var der desværre ikke meget at berette fra obsen i dag.

De næste par dage ser ud til at blive noget blæsende, og måske med lidt SV og V i vindretningen – så det kunne godt blive spændende. Men vi må se, om vejret holder – eller om de gode vinddage regner helt væk...

THK

Ringmærkning:

It was yet another day like all the others today – with one little difference: we didn’t have a lot of recaptures. Does that mean that even the local birds are already abandoning us? Or have they only learned, where the nets are? In any case, we have yet another sign to prove that migration is really on: A Reed warbler (first of the season). But that’s about it with signs of migration for now.

Well, we also caught a blue tit – first of the season. But it was not on migration…

On the positive side: less time ringing gives us more time to mend nets so when (if) finally migration turns up its volume all the nets are ready.

Oh, and we caught another special bird today (although not a migrant): a wood pigeon – it was still veeery young, the wing was only half grown and the feathers looked more like nestling feathers than fledgling:

Big fluffy baby

As for the rest: Estelle and I are now alone at the station, awaiting the big storm and rain tonight and tomorrow morning, hoping that maybe we can open the nets for a few hours tomorrow in the evening, although which birds would be blown on shore in this weather, we don’t know.

MH

Folk på stationen: Estelle Cumin, Thomas Kristensen, Martina Hillbrand