A blue and black day again!

Morning Observations

The birds are back! The southwestern oriented wind is bringing us birds and warmth. we were treated quite well by the birding gods today! Thomas joined us for the first hour of the obs and found us a nice great northern diver (islom), just as he left we had a little auk (søkonge), and another one later! Besides from those nice rarities i enjoyed the great and wonderful comeback of the ducks. We had wigeons, northern pintail and even a goldeneye (Pibeand, spidsand, hvinand). To top it all of i spotted a short eared owl (mosehornugle) flying just above the water, it took plenty off time along the horizon so we enjoyed the view. Also no rain! A great day in blåvand, and hopefully tomorrow will be just as exciting:)

- Short eared owl at the obs

- SDP

Ringing

In full Oktober spirit, every good day lately has started about the same: we all say "today is going to be a bad day..". We are not able to open all the nets due to unsure weather condition, nervously starying at the clouds, whispering "I smell rain." And then the rain does not come, but the birds do, so, we had another great day in terms of numbers, with over 80 blue tits (blåmejse)! Every ringers best friend! Besides these blue little bundles of joy, we also caught Blackcaps(munk), Goldcrest(fuglekong) and a fair number of Blackbirds( solsort)!

Yesterday, when it did indeed rain for most part of the day and we decided to have a cozy day inside, each of us individualy, like true birders, stared at every bird outside and we all tried to see which of the blackbirds happily hooping around in our garden in the rain had been ringed before and which havent. So today we made sure to look at every caught blackbird and decide if it was one of the unringed of the day before, which Im pretty sure they all were! 

-LK

Folk på stationen: Lua Koplin, Sverre Dahl Porsgaard, Mathilde Lundt Larsen, Oliver Laursen