(Blue) TITS!

Morning obs:

Once more the vind was in northwest, meaning our expectations were low. The birds however showed up regardless of the wind. The usual suspects: Little auk, little gull, kittiwake and TITS made the apperance, but the first skua in the last two weeks showed up, with a rather strange flightpattern. The parasitic skua at first site actually gave the impression of a sparrowhawk, it flew with fast wing-beats followed by a sudden stop, and repeat. Regardless it was a skua as pointet out by HBØ. The bird of the day, i am sort of split on. We had another common loon today, but also its the first skua we have had in a while. Soon the parasitic skua will be less common than some of the rarer skuas in denmark, as they switch in abundance here on the west coast. So i would like to put the parasitic skua as the bird of the day, folowed closely by the common loon, that came close to the beach towards south. Other exiting birds are to mention: the two snow buntings southwards and the long-tailed ducks, where two of them were swimming in the waves and another two flying south. 

Ringing

The morning started quite calmly and soon the sun came out for a bit, and so did the tits! Today was the biggest day of blue tits we have had this season. What started with joy of catching a few blue tits in the Helgoland trap, soon became all hands on deck with Mathilde, Bent, Henrik, Sverre and myself( Lua) knee-deep in taking out these angry little blue monsters for hours.

All in high spirit and a positive attitude, of course! After all the action calmed down a bit, we did get a little sweet treat at the end of the day, in the form of this beautiful female firecrest!

-LK

Folk på stationen: Lua Koplin, Sverre Dahl Porsgaard, Mathilde Lundt Larsen, Oliver Laursen, Thomas Kristensen, Henrik Böhmer, Bent Jakobsen