Skråpe-dag blev til stormsvale-dag

Morgen observation:

Vejret og datoen taget i betragtning, burde vi denne dag have set flere skråper. Sådan gik det ikke, men vi fik andre fede arter i bogen. Vinden var fra tidlig morgen VNV 13 m/s og efter mere end et døgns blæst, forventede vi flere fugle i dag end vi så i går. Dagen begyndte ret godt med en stor kobbersneppe der kom trækkende i en flok med strandskader lige ved ankomst til sabinebunkeren. Kort efter ses en lille stormsvale kl. 6.10 og da der kom pænt med vadere, var det en underholdende start. Der var også lidt flere suler i dag, men vi måtte lede forgæves efter skråper på trods af meldinger om skråper på andre vestjyske lokaliteter. Til gengæld blev vi beriget med endnu en lille stormsvale lidt over 9, en 1k odinshane, 2 sortgrå ryler og 7 almindelige kjover. Så vi var ikke lige så heldige med havfuglene som på lokaliteter længere mod nord, men det var helt bestemt en godkendt dag!

I morgen aftager vinden og går i ren SV. Den lander på 7 m/s, hvilket i princippet godt kan blive godt efter et par dage med blæst.

HBØ

Ringmærkning:

The wind this morning was still too strong for standard ringing, but after it had died down a little bit by around 7 am, we opened some of the more sheltered nets anyway, just to know if we were missing anything. It didn’t take long to find the answer to our question: no.

We had two recaptures, remarkedly of migrating birds we had ringed before the storm started. And as much as it would be nice to think that they were staying, because they like it so much here at Blåvand, as all the tourists do, for these birds it merely means that the weather had been so unfavorable these past two days, that they just didn’t dare to continue their journey southward. This, then, is also the reason why we wouldn’t get any birds coming from further north. Where the chiffchaff came from, I don't know, but one had been calling around the nets for several days now. But it might also be a local bird.

So, we really hope for better weather soon – to allow for the safe passage of birds. But also because we really want to catch some numbers finally. The first week of August is almost over and still we have barely seen any migration happening. With the winds forecasted to die down tonight, we can only hope that tomorrow finally we get some real work to do in the ringing.

MH

Folk på stationen: Estelle Cumin, Sverre Dahl Porsgaard, Martina Hillbrand, Henrik Böhmer, Thomas Kristensen