Little highlights on the day before the storm

Morning observation:

When Thomas and I left the station, we noticed the already high amounts of winds of the coming "storm" tomorrow. This didn't break our spirits though, as we bought some nice new comfy chairs for the station and we sat in a more secluded spot away from the wind.
We started the observation off slow with only three different species in the first time interval, but this quickly changed and after Henrik joined, the migration was going along in a nice pace. While we didn't have large numbers, apart from the higher amount of scoters "Sortand", we had quite a bit of variation. We saw a nice amount of common guillemots "Lomvie" and also a couple of arctic terns "Havterne" flying by.

Overall a very windy and not very exciting day, but a very comfy one in the new chairs :).

Today´s observations can be seen here.

The ringing:

I could just open a few nets due to the wind today. These caught nice birds though: In the first round I had a 1K Redpoll “Gråsisken”, another one was following in a later round.

1k Redpoll/ Gråsisken. Picture: Levi van den Os

I had two nets at Krattet open and caught a Ring Ouzel “Ringdrossel”. As there were not many birds and I had a lot of time, I brought the bird to the happy observers.

Ringouzel/ Ringdrossel. Picture: Thomas Kristensen.

Later in the morning, a Barn Swallow “Landsvale” was in the net. The other had newer seen one in hand and were quite amazed.

Barn Svallow/ Landsvale. Picture: Marit Nillissen

All in all, it was a slow ringing day, but it had some nice highlights.

It is very windy outside now and tomorrow morning, even windier weather is forecasted. That means, the nets will stay closed (unless the wind decides to magically stop during the night, I will wake up at opening time anyway and check).

The moths:

Due to the wind, there were not many moths in the traps today. I will show Charanyca trigrammica “Firestreget ugle”. It is a rather common but quite nice one, I think.

Charanyca trigrammica “Firestreget ugle”

At the station Henrik Böhmer, Bent Jakobsen, Marit Nillissen, Emma Gray, Thomas Kristensen, Joseph Stephan, Levi van den Os and Hanelie Sidhu