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Observation

After quite a few days with guest observers, Sverre and I were once again just the two of us for todays morning observation. It was a day that had enough bird action to keep us on our toes, but not enough to really challenge our observational skills. To our surprise, we avoided any rain, contrary to what the weather forecast had predicted. The wind came from the southeast, blowing at 6 m/s with a temperature of 17 degrees. The bird of the day is the grey heron (fiskehejre), which we observed 43 of today. Many of the grey herons will stay for the winter, but some do migrate to western Europe, especially the young birds. These birds will spend the much milder winters in countries such as Spain, France, Holland and few even in notheren africa. The birds staying in the north will go to the coasts to fish if the freshawater lakes freeze over. Other than the grey heron, we managed to spot a common murre (lomvie) swimming around and diving for fish. We ended the day with going to the beach and watching the sunset with Mathilde and Lise.

Fiskehejrer.

Sverre, Mathilde og Lise i solnedgangen. 

- GBJ

Ringmærkning

Dagens ringmærkning var mere et eventyr end forventet. Det blev til en dag med flere arter (12) og antal fugle (75) end forventet ud fra vejret - der alligevel viste sig gode forhold til ringmærkningen. I stedet for den forventede regn, fik vi forholdvis vindstille forhold, der bragte både mængder af fugle og nogle særlige. 

Endnu en gang ankom en invasion af sortmejser i fyrehaven, denne gang med hele 36 individer, de fleste på en netrunde kl. 9, da der pludselig sad mindst ti et af nettene - et net, jeg efterhånden kender som mejse-nettet. 

Sæsonens første sangdrossel.

- MLL

Folk på stationen: Sverre Dahl Porsgaard, Mathilde Lundt Larsen, Lua Koplin, Lise Mastrup, Gustav Brandt Jelert