Store terner og en hvid præst

Observationer

Vi (Henrik Böhmer, Thomas Kristensen og jeg) havde egentlig ikke de aller største forventninger for dagen, da vindretningen endnu en gang havde bevæget sig mod vest og ovenikøbet ikke var særlig stærk, blot 4 meter per sekund. Morgenobsen starter nu først kl 06, så vi havde god tid til at finde os til rette oppe i klitterne. Men allerede i de første par minutter kom der syv rovterner trækkende mod nord! Så var det eller frem med notesblokken så vi hurtigt kunne få dem noteret. De var store og flotte, men lyset var desværre ikke helt endnu til at vi kunne se de vilde detaljer. Men noteres skulle de dog, da de er en lokal sjældenhed. Den første halve time var i grunden bedre en forventet da vi foruden nogle få vadere også fik besøg af en rodstrubet lom og en lækker flok på 32 trækkende storspove samt en 1k ride. Derefter har vi nogle halvstille timer kun afbrudt af strandskader, 338 totalt for dagen, samt lidt andre småflokke af ryler. En enkelt 1k sorthovedet måge kom også forbi hukket, men den fik jeg desværre ikke set så godt. Der kommer dog uden tvivl flere. 
Så kl 08.17 kvikkede vi lidt op igen da der kommer en flok på ni store præstekraver. Nej den ene så dog lidt lys ud og med brudt krave. Inden længe har Henrik kaldt Hvidbrystet præstekrave som vi når at se kort inden den fortsætter mod syd. Alt i alt endnu en dejlig morgen:)
- SDP

Ringmærkning

After the wind turned west yesterday evening, we expected a slow day today and that's what we got. It was interesting to observe how different the species composition was suddenly.

What was also interesting, was to see, how some blackcaps were obviously already on migration, while others were still in their juvenile plumage - definitely local birds - and seemed a long way from getting anywhere near even thinking about whether they should spend the winter somewhere warmer. Considering how Blackcaps have changed their wintering quarters within only a decade or so, it does somehow make sense but it is still strange to see it.

Apart from that the notable absences of today were the larger numbers of willow warblers and garden warblers, meaning the main migrants were passing us again tonight (probably to be found on the East coast these days). And in general not such a great diversity today. However, it was good to see that Finn was still happy with some of our regulars, as he rings in a different habitat at home. He had never before had a bullfinch before and was very happy with yet another couple of juvenile bullfinches. And he took a picture of one of them:

MH

På stationen; Thomas Kristensen, Henrik Bôhmer, Martina Hillbrand, Finn Wijnands og Sverre Dahl Porsgaard