A warm welcome and a white-tailed eagle

Observationer

The north-western wind strikes again! Another day with sharp winds from the great northwest meant roughly the same amount of birds as usual. Today i had just 25 oystercatchers, 8 turnstones, and 12 dunlins. All in all a very slow morning with just me at the observation post. I did however have four arctic skuas, one i defenitely recognised from yesterday. They were however quite docile today, hardly chasing the terns. In the early i enjoyed looking at more than a thousand scoters migrating north. The best moment today was definitely when an older white-tailed eagle flew over my head and roamed the area for a couple of minutes. What a nice looking bird, with its wonderful white tail! Another great, but slightly dull, morning in Blåvand! :)

In the evening Lise arrived at the station. We have been looking forward to her joining us at the station. Lise has been at the station in the spring, so she is already experienced in the area and will help Lua with the ringing for the next month. She is a doing a Danish triple. which means that she will be going for one month at Blåvand, Skagen and Gedser birding observatory. We look forward to working with her and sharing a daily life at the station:)
- SDP

Ringmærkning

As the weather conditions have slightly improved we have opened the nets in the morning and got a nice mix of species. The morning started with recaptured robins, two handsome male black-caps and one humble yellowhammer! The yellowhammer had two healed wounds on both of his wings, they looked like small porfurations, as well as a few growing feathers, a potential cat attack that this lucky bird managed to escape from! The last birds of the day were a bunch of young bullfinches that provided a really wholesome observation.

Two of the finches had been caught in the same net close together. After processesing and releasing the first individual, it decided to perch still in eye site watching my every move very closely. As soon as I was ready to release the second bullfinch, its friend was still loyaly waiting at the same spot. The second bird flew into the closest tree and as soon as it had landed, the first one joined immediatly! After resting together for a couple of moments, both flew off into the same direction, ready for more joined adventures!

Folk på stationen:
Lise Mastrup, Lua Koplin and Sverre Dahl Porsgaard