Ready for the spring season!

Hello from Blåvand Fuglestation! I arrived on Monday evening at the station, a few days before the start of the season to help setting up the nets in the lighthouse garden which we took down over the winter end of the last season. On Tuesday morning, Bent came to the station and together, we set to work. We set up all of the standard nets in the lighthouse garden. Just the four nets at Krattet, which do not count to the standard nets were left, but we saw that some old trees were fallen in the net lines and left this work for today.

Me setting up a net.

So this morning, we sawed up the trees and took them away and set up the last nets. Bent had showed me a new knot to attach the rope on the pole the day before and although I do not remember dreaming of it all night, as Bent said, I remembered it very well this morning. Bent helped me to take out the moths trap from the station, I will again catch moths with UV light this spring.

It was very foggy yesterday and today the whole time. But the military area was open and I wanted to use that to go for a walk after Bent had left. There were some Wrens “Gærdesmutte” and Skylarks “Sanglærke” – the Skylarks are a great sign that spring is starting – but else it was rather quiet. I also went into some bunkers, last autumn I had discovered some moths resting there, the same species were still there, Scoliopteryx libatrix “Husmoderugle” and Alucita hexadactyla “Kaprifoliefjermøl”.

Scoliopteryx libatrix "Husmoderugle" and mosquitos in a bunker.

When I started thinking that it was not so fun to walk in the foggy soup, I found a bat in one of the bunkers which cheered me up. I was inside quite many bunkers, also last year quite late in the season and I was wondering, why I had not found any bats, so that one was a nice surprise.

The bat.

Back from my walk, it was already afternoon but I opened the nets by the house just for two hours. It was not so bad, the Blackbirds “Solsort” are coming back, I had three new and one new Bluetit “Blåmejse”.  

The Bluetit "Blåmejse" would give a more coulerful picture but I decided for the Blackbird "Solsort" as you can see how foggy it is on this picture. In the background is the lighthouse.

People: Bent Jakobsen, Hanelie Sidhu