BLÅ GLENTE!

Som vi siger på jysk: det var vældigt!

Observationer

Vinden var skiftet til øst og selv om der ikke var så meget af den, skulle det gerne give flere fugle end vi havde set de foregående dage. Det det gik da også ret godt med vaderne. Der var god diversitet og morgenen udmærkede sig ved en stak store præstekraver. Faktisk hele 268 trækkende denne morgen, hvilket er et af de højeste tal fra Blåvand nogensinde. En flok på 8 sortklirer og i alt 77 dobbeltbekkasiner var også i den høje ende. Da der fortsat kom vadere efter standardtiden, valgte vi at blive siddende og det var et rigtig godt valg. Kl. 9.32 opdager jeg en fugl der kommer lige efter en rørhøg og ser med det samme at det er noget helt andet. Få sekunder senere basker den lidt med vingerne og det går op for mig at det er en BLÅ GLENTE! Den kommer lige mod os og drejer lige nord for obsposten mod SV, men tager lige en rundte over os. Vi fik den så at sige lige i smasken. Der bredte sig en vild stemning på obsen, hvor vi stod 6 personer og mens den trækker ud over havet forsvinder den mod SV. Få minutter senere finder vi den så igen, lige nord for fyret og den tager endnu en runde lige syd for obsposten inden den trækker aktivt ind mod byen inden den forsvinder af syne. Det var en syret oplevelse med en art vi kun har turde håbe på i Blåvand.

Både lidt over 11 og omkring kl. 12 ligger den igen i området omkring stationen, men ses derefter ikke mere.

Blå glente er en ny art for Blåvandshuk. 

Med til dagens observationer hører også 28 trækkende rørhøge og over 600 trækkende hættemåger.

I morgen er vinden fortsat østlig, så vi forventer igen en fornuftig dag på hukket.

Ringmærkning:

We had low easterly winds all night and all day, so we expected a lot of migrating birds in the nets this morning. The winds will blow them towards our end of the country and before they will end up over the water they would land here.

For once, we weren’t disappointed. The day started off with only a few birds which made me open the shrub nets after all (I hadn’t opened them at first for fear of getting overwhelmed). First thing after I opened those nets, I had a net check with 10 birds in total (that’s really a lot considering what we caught lately). I was already wondering if I overdid it, but a good part of it was willow warbler and garden warbler which can be processed quite quickly.

Of course, after that it died down quite a bit, but I ended up ringing more birds than we have had this season so far. Next to rather many migrants – among which a garden warbler with fat 7 – I also had a few cool local birds: a woodpecker, a woodcreeper, and a nuthatch all in one day!

Apart from that, just the usual suspects, but since it was good, I opened the nets of the station garden again in the late afternoon - because you never know.

Nothing happened at first, because it was still too hot. I closed the nets at 8pm, because I wanted to go to sleep and suddenly had 4 birds in one net check! They added a few new speices to today's list: a greenfinch and two crested tits. But most of all there was a great tit - new species for the day.

Now, a great tit in itself is not all that amazing, but this one was! It was ringed already but it wasn't just any ring. It had been ringed here in Blåvand - in 2020! That was a really great recapture.

MH

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