Bird news from Blåvand and other parts of the country

Morning observations:

Thomas at the morning obs. Picture: Marit Nillissen

Thomas joined me today for the morning observation! I was hoping that the morning observation was going to be more interesting then it was yesterday. But unfortunately, it was even more quiet. But, in the last hour of the observation, we saw a pretty big flock of Velvet scoters “Fløjlsand”. A flock of 30 ducks were migrating south which was so nice! Usually we only see two or three of these species, so this was a nice surprise. We also saw again quit some Sandwich terns “Splitterne”, it looks like everyday will be more.

Todays observations can be seen here.

The ringing:

I had company in the ringing today by Anne, who arrived at the station yesterday evening and who is taking a three weeks break from her studies in Copenhagen to stay with us at the Bird Observatory! The ringing experience can just improove in these three weeks, today it was prettz slow, we had three new birds in five hours. The notheasterly wind had changed to northwest in the morning and it was a little more windy. But tomorrw looks better, so let´s hope for some more birds in the nets.

Songthrush "Sangdrossel". Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

The moths:

It was six different species of moths in the traps this morninig. No new for me and no new one for the season. But there can´t be every day...

I will show Alucita hexadactyla "Kaprifoliefjermøl" in the blog, a small moths which I think is actually quite pretty, as it looks like its wings are set together of feathers.

Alucita hexadactyla "Kaprifoliefjermøl". Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

Bird news from other parts of the country:

 At 16:09 a White-tailed Eagle ”Havørn” chick hatched at the Fugleværnsfondens reservat in Saksfjed-Hyllekrog. It is possible to watch the chick and its parents on the nest 24 hours a day live on ØrneTV. This was our evening TV for today and we got some quite nice vies on the chick and the patents.

White-tailed Eagle ”Havørn” chick hatched at the Fugleværnsfondens reservat in Saksfjed-Hyllekrog. Pictures: Ørne TV

It is worth to have a look at it! We wish the young White-tailed Eagle ”Havørn” and its patents the best luck!

At the station: Thomas Kristensen, Anne Hjortlund Hansen, Marit Nillissen, Joseph Stephan and Hanelie Sidhu