Hvid Vipstjert and still many Blackbirds in the nets

Observation : 

Today was a truly wonderful day for bird migration!
We counted over 4,000 scoters migrating northwards. We also spotted numerous velvet scoters, which are easily identifiable by the white patches on their wings.
The sandwich terns have definitely arrived too, with more than a dozen spotted near the shores of Blavand today ! 

Todays observations can be seen here.

Ringing :

This morning we were joined in the ringing by Morgan, who is from Northern Zeeland and has so far ringed at a CES Site. He will stay with us for one week.

In the ringing lab. Picture by Mathilde

Spring migration is still not much visible in the nets and it is mostly Blackbirds “Solsort”, that we are catching. Two more “spring”-birds were a White Wagtail “Hvid Vipstjert” and a Chiffchaff “Gransanger”.

White Wagtail "Hvid Vipstjert". Picture by Mathilde.

We are getting quite many recaptures these days, while yesterday, nearly half of the birds we caught were recaps, today it was 1/3. The weather looks nice the next days, so we are hoping they will continue their journey, and we will get some new birds!

After ringing we had some lunch and then climbed the lighthouse together.

For this evening, we have a wolve trip planned! We hope to get off something of Henriks luck, who already so often saw the wolves. We will keep you updated in tomorrows blog, if we succeed.

At the station: Mathilde Lundt Larsen, Clara Delahaye, Hanelie Sidhu, Henrik Bøhmer, Thomas Kristiansen and Morgan Jarmer