A beautiful morning with a Woodcock

Sunrise at Blåvandshuk. Picture: Marit Nillissen

Morning Observations:

Around 06:30, I was ready for the new morning observations. It was a bit foggy this morning, so I couldn’t see the wind farm in the sea. The first two hours there were a lot of Common scoter “Sortand” and Red throated divers “Rødstrubet lom” migrating. I also saw a lot more Northern gannet “Sule” then yesterday. Eventually the migration started to slow down and I went back to the station.

Todays observations can be seen here.

The ringing:

Songthrush "Sangdrossel". Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

It was warmer than some of the last mornings when I opened the nets this morning. But still, there was icy frost on the poles and some of the nets. But it promised to become a nice morning. It was not as sunny as yesterday, but we still had some sun. It felt like there were even more Songthrushes “Sangdrossel” singing than the last days, so I was thinking that today, I would have one in the nets. I was right, it was even two. And it got a really nice morning for ringing. Apart from one zero round, I always had some birds in the nets and something to do. And some nice species that we always have around the house at the moment but that do not often go into the nets did us the pleasure and got caught: A Starling “Stær”, a Treesparrow “Skovspurv”, some three Greenfinches “Grønirisk” and a Woodcock “Skovsneppe”!

Starling "Stær". Picture: Marit Nillissen.

I kept the nets open a little longer than standard time, until 13.00, but at 12.30 it was just one new Goldcrest and a recapture Blackbird “Solsort” and at 13.00 the daily Lesser Redpoll “Lille Gråsisken” (it is everyday different birds of course) was in the net behind the pond, so it was okay to close.

It was a sunny afternoon, but I used it to make a list of which rings we have in stock, and which need to be ordered and checked how many nets of different lengths we have in reserve.

A good bird to end the blog: Todays Woodcock "Skovsneppe". Picture: Marit Nillissen

At the station: Marit Nillissen and Hanelie Sidhu