Mmm mild og dejlig østenvind

Observationer
Den danske sommer viste sig virkelig fra sit luneste hjørne i dag. Med hele 18 grader og fire meter i sekundet fra øst kunne vi bestemt ikke klage over varmen fra morgenstunden. Vi fik i dag selskab af David. der havde overnattet på stjernen i håbet om at genfinde den blå glente fra i går under morgenobsen. Dagen bød ikke på nogle glente, men startede i stedet stille og roligt ud med 35 strandskader indenfor den første halvetime. Super lækkert, og det fortsatte i samme stil det meste af morgenen, hele 325 strandskader belv det til i løbet af morgentimerne.
Vi havde i dag sat os et andet sted med mere udsigt over land. Dette viste sig at være en god beslutning, da både hjejlerne og dobbeltbekkasinerne valgte at trække derover. Det blev til i alt 130 hjejler og 209 dobbeltbekkasiner. derudover fik vi også fornøjelsen af 13 gule vipstjerter, 12 rørhøge (de fleste ungfugle) og to tårnfalke. et dejligt morgentræk med en flot mængde vadere, hvor vi heldigvis var mange til at få det meste med:)
foruden alle de skønne fugle lå der også en ung gråsæl på stranden, under nøje observation af dens to forældre lænere ude i vandet. Det skal her nævnes at det er helt normalt at unge sæler efterlades på stranden om dagen imens deres mødre søger føde, hvorefter den kommer op så den unge sæl kan die om natten eller når stranden forhåbentlig en gang er fri fra turister.
- SDP

Ringmærkning

Winds last night were just like the night before, so, of course, I was hoping for a good day at ringing again. I opened all the nets in the morning and even though it was not really busy today, there were always just a few birds to ring, so in total I ringed almost as many as yesterday – only I had to close the nets early because suddenly it started to rain.

The species were also more or less the same as yesterday, with again several migrating willow warblers and garden warblers. I also had a whole flock of yellowhammers that must have come to drink or bath in the garden pond, and some of them got caught.

Just before I started closing the nets – and after standard time – an adult wood pigeon got caught. It was quite a task to ring it alone, but I managed alright. They are big and strong, it weighed half a kilo!

In the afternoon I opened the nets again in the station garden and I could ring another garden warbler and also a pied flycatcher. Flycatchers haven’t really been that common during the last few days, even though they must be migrating now. And there would be lots of food for them, as mosquitoes seem to have multiplied recently. So more flycatchers please – also because they are very pretty birds!

In the evening Finn arrived, who will be joining the ringing for the next couple of days. Meaning I am not alone any more.

MH

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