Humes for lunch

Morgenobs

The weatherforecast did not hold up today. We were promised small and fragile winds but enden up with upwards to 9 meters per second from west-southwest. Not a bad windredirection. We were nine people at the obs today, so everything was covered. Not a lot to see though. Bird of the day (from the obs at least) is a single little aulk flying south before resting for a bit on the water. Besides from that we saw some goldeneyes (hvinand), long tailed ducks (havlit), wigeons (pibeænder), teals (krikand), pintails (spidsand) and ofcourse scoters. We enden up with 66 species in total throughout the day, not a bad day at all!

Around middat Anders Myrtue found a nice Humes warbler (himalaya sanger) that we all went to see. That is definitely a new species for me, and also for Oliver who might have just hit number 300. Congratulations! What an amazing milestones. We all got to see it and i am currently working on a sound recording of the rare bird to act as proof. Thank you to Anders Myrtue and also thanks to my parents who have been here for the last day and drove us to the Humes warbler! What a thrilling day in Blåvand:)

- SDP

Ringmærkning

Tonight we probably had some of the heaviest rainfall that I (Lua) have witnessed during my time here and it dragged on untill the early morning hours. Therefore we opened the nets a bit later and had a slower day compared to what we have had lately. It started with one beautiful redwing(vindrossel) who's beauty also impressed Sverres mother who came to visit.

Then we had this adorable goldcrest couple, a few blue tits(obviously) and the bird of the day, two wonderful firecrests!!

As we had some time in-between we decided to do some maintanence on a few nets and clean the labs windows! Great fun! And with a couple of coal tits as well as a pair of great tits, our day ended with Mathilde and I joining Sverre and Oliver to go twitch a leaf warbler at Tipmosen!

- LK