The first 1Ks are on their wings and in the nets!

Morning observation:

Today, unfortunately, there weren’t many observations, and it wasn’t even because of a slow migration day that the numbers were low. When Marit and I got up to the observation spot, everything was really fine, with okay visibility and even an incredibly warm wind that made it pleasantly warm from the morning. So we hoped that this would be a good day with both nice weather and a good number of birds.

It was now the 20th of May—the day when you’re supposed to have the best chance of seeing the most species in Denmark. But after 20 minutes of morning observation, the fog came rolling in over us almost without warning, and within 10 minutes we couldn’t see anything. We hoped it would disappear just as quickly as it had come, but unfortunately, that wasn’t the case.

After a little while, we decided to go back to the station and wait for it to clear up. Just before 6 o’clock, we went back up again full of hope—both because there had been a fairly big clearing, and because we need a minimum of 2 hours within the 3-hour time window to call it standard. So we hoped we could just make it.

But even though there was clearly some clearing, we could still only see about 500 meters out over the sea. We waited there a bit and walked around to see if we could find a spot. But eventually, we gave up and went back to the station.

So in the end, it didn’t amount to more than 20 minutes of morning observation and a count of resting birds on the beach today.

Today´s observations can be seen here.

The ringing:

Not many birds today but a little surprise in first round: The first 1K Song Thrushes "Sangdrossel" were in the nets today! They were the first 1K birds this year that we ringed, it is rather early that they are already out of their nest I think. During the morning, I could sometimes see them flying around.

1K Song Thrush "Sangdrossel". Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

The moths:

Not as many moths as yesterday but still a good number. Scotopteryx mucronata “Junimørkvingemåler” was new for me and is not so common.

Scotopteryx mucronata “Junimørkvingemåler”. Picture: Hanelie Sidhu

At the station: Thomas Kristensen, Emma Grey, Levi van den Os, Marit Nillissen, Joseph Stephan and Hanelie Sidhu