The wind must change

Morning observations:

Today we were with 4 people at the morning observation because Henrik had joined us. It was a very quiet morning with not that much migration. Most of the birds were resting, such as the Sandwich terns “Splitterne” and Northend gannets “Sule”. Even though it was quiet, we did see two Arctic skua’s “Almindelig Kjove” flying by! Other than that, we also saw some Collared dove’s “tyrkerdue” migrating, which was nice to see.

The weather forecast of tomorrow doesn’t look that promising as it says that it will be foggy. But we are hoping that it’s going to be better!

Today’s observations can be seen here.

The ringing:

Today we just had twelve birds in total, six new and six recaps. One of the Willow Warblers “Løvsanger”, that we caught was first caught and ringed here at the station last year in spring. It is impressive to see that this little passerine flew all the way to Africa to its wintering grounds and now came back to breed and raise its chicks here in Denmark.

Robin/ Rødhals. Picture: Anne Hjortlund Hansen

The moths:

I did not have many moths species today, my favorite was Pachycnemia hippocastanaria “Mørk hedemåler”, which has a very pretty and filigree pattern on its wings if you look at it closer.

Pachycnemia hippocastanaria “Mørk hedemåler”. Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

In the afternoon Levi went out to take some pictures of the birds in the area. Here a Linnet male/ Tornirisk han. Picture: Levi van den Os.

Yellowhammer/ Gulspurv. Picture: Levi van den Os.

At the station: Henrik Böhmer, Levi van den Os, Marit Nillissen, Thomas Kristensen, Anne Hjortlund Hansen, Emma Gray and Hanelie Sidhu