Mere ro på trækket

Vejr: mest skyet med byger af og til. Lidt blæsende fra omkring vest, omkring 7-8 m/s. Temp. omkring 12 grader. God sigt.

Det blæste lidt, så vi valgte at sætte os i hullet. Der kom enkelte korte og lette byger ind i mellem. Trækmæssigt skete der kun lidt. Kun få rødstrubede lommer, vadere samt småfugle, herunder hedelærker og små korsnæb som det mest bemærkelsesværdige. 2 pibeænder og 2 spidsænder var alt hvad der trak af svømmeænder.

Dagens fugl blev en sodfarvet skråpe opdaget af Henrik Læssøe et stykke ude. Den fløj først mod nord, men kom senere tilbage mod syd; en ung ride kom trækkende mod syd, kom senere tilbage mod nord og så igen mod syd. En almindelig kjove trak mod nord og jagtede en stormmåge undervejs. En 3K kaspisk måge rastede på stranden før den blev skrærmt bort af de mange turister.

Resten af dagen er forløbet rimelig stille roligt, kun David har været ved bl.a. Grønningen.

Felttræffet skal så småt til at begynde, og de første gæster er ankommet til stationen, herunder Henrik Læssøe og Stefan Andersen. Vejret ser ikke værst ud for den næste uges tid med bl.a. skiftende vinde, og enkelte dage ser det ud til at vi får sydøstenvind. Der skal nok komme til at ske løjer.

Til aften har vi spist risotto con zucca à la Daniele.

I morgen står den på svag til jævn vestenvind, og der kommer nok flere byger dagen igennem.

Folk: Bent, Stefan, Henrik, David, Rose, Daniel, Luke, Michael.

It was another windy morning today, so we only opened about 2/3 nets that were more sheltered. It was also another morning of keeping an eye out for showers now we’ve got much more autumnal weather.

In an early round in the lighthouse garden I saw a large bird at the end of one our long 18m nets, and ran down to it in case it escaped: it was another Jay! Daniel was saying how we were having good luck catching large, painful birds (Jay and Woodpecker), just as we turned the corner and saw a second Jay in the net! So we both got to experience the pleasure and pain of taking a Jay out of the net and ringing it (although Daniels was more painful).

Bent arrived and around 1000 was doing a round in the lighthouse garden whilst we were ringing birds from the station garden. He messaged to say he had a lot of Tits and a Yellow-browed Warbler, the third of the season! We didn’t get long to look at it though as had many other birds to get through. The bulk of the tit flock was Great Tits, whereas before it’s mostly been Blue Tits, so that was a nice change.

Other highlights include a couple of Brambling, the third Greenfinch of the season and the first Bullfinch of the season in post-juvenile (Adult) plumage. It was a young female with a lovely muted, sombre plumage. It’s a different subspecies here (europea) to what we have in the UK (pileata) and I could notice the difference with this female being greyish-brown with a pink tinge on the underparts, whereas they have browner underparts back home. It’s really nice to see these regional variations up close.

Young female Bullfinch. Photo: Luke Nelson