Soaring high and going strong like a white-tailed eagle

Morgenobservation
Great day at the obs today. Thomas, Kristoffer, Andreas and I (Sverre), went to the obs point. It was a bit more southern wind today with a wonderful 13 degrees. We were quite busy as we had pippits and passerines overhead and geese and dabbing ducks at sea. I am were happy that we were four people, otherwise i would have probably missed a bird or two (to say the least). We had 158 brant geese (knortegås), 68 barnacle geese (bramgås), 128 greylay geese (grågås) and even 5 lesser whitefronted geese (blisgås)! As for the ducks we accumulated 79 eiders (ederfugl), 1230 scoters (sortand), 9 velvet scoter (fløjlsand), 634 wigeons (pibeand), 44 pintails (spidsand), 50 teals (krikand) and 29 red-breasted merganser (toppet skallesluger). And thats just the geese and duck species!
In total we had almost 50 species throught the observation. Definetely not a bad day! The most interesting for me was the two red crossbills (lille korsnæb) we had flying straight overhead. That and a total of 31 little gulls (dværgmåge). Oh and we also had two merlins (dværgfalk), a hen harrier (blå kærhøg), a white-tailed eagle (havørn), sparrowhawk (spurvehøg) and some kestrels (tårnfalk). As a cherry on top we had a potentiel yellowbrowed warbler calling from a bush just beside us. I have a sound recording i need to polish and work on, but it should be good enough. Man what a day. As always a great day here in Blåvand, looking forward to more to come!

My mother also left the station, after joining me at the obs for a couple of days, I enjoyed having her here a lot and showing her my place of work in the dunes. Around 13, just after the morning obs, Mathilde came back to the station, after a couple of days in Copenhagen. We went for a small birding trip in the heath and saw some stonechats (sortstrubet bynkefugl). Good to be back to our normal four-man-team here at the station. But now we're just waiting for some more rare birds now that the season is starting to peak:)

- SDP

Ringmærkning
Dagen i dag var præget af Fuglekonger. Efter en lang flyvning havde de små fugle brug for et velfortjent hvil. Vi så og hørte mange fuglekonger, både i Stationshaven og Fyrhaven, og naturligvis gik der også en del i vores net. De små fugle, med farverig top, var også et stort hit blandt stationens gæster. At fugle kan være så små, var omdrejningspunkt for mange af dagens samtaler. For os ringmærkere og fugleelskere, er det en fornøjelse at arbejde med fuglene hver dag. Men det bringer et ekstra drys af taknemlighed, at dele denne glæde med udefrakommende gæster- både dem som ved meget om fugle, og dem som ved lidt.

Ellers bød dagen på Gærdesmutte, Rødhals, Sortmejse, Gransanger, Sangdrossel, Blåmejse, Musvit, Jernspurv og Rødstjert. Vi troede ellers at vi havde sagt på gensyn til den sidste rødstjert, da det efterhånden er længe siden vi har fået dem i nettet sidst. 

I løbet af dagen fik vi også tid, til at lave lidt havearbejde. Med grensaks og muskelstyrke, trimmede vi de grene, der snart ville skabe problemer med vores net. 

Det er ikke kun fugle vi finder i vores net. Både sommerfugle, biller og guldsmed forvilder sig til tider ind i nettets folder. Her har jeg (Anna Beluga) hjulpet en Admiral ud af nettet. 

- AB

Folk på stationen
Lua Koplin, Sverre Dahl Porsgaard, Anna Beluga Gade-Jørgensen, Andreas K.P., Kristoffer Hansen, Bjørn Frikke, Thomas Kristensen, Mathilde Lundt Larsen og Anna Belugas familie.