Invasivt besøg fra Egypten

Morgen observation:

En dejlig lun morgen med 15 graders varme og kun fem sekundmeter fra vest gav roligt vejr til obs, men desværre utroligt få fugle. Endnu en smuk morgen i Blaavand. Morgenen startede godt med en del sortænder trækkende mod syd, men morgenens første fornøjelse var uden tvivl da en flok på ca. 1000 stære lettede og fløj over os. Det var lige ved at være dagens højdepunkt da der ikke var meget gang i trækket. Men omkring kl 6.30 fløj en ordentlig flok skarver over os og videre sydpå, og sørme om der ikke var en nilgås iblandt dem! Nilgåsen lever egentlig i Egypten, men der er etableret en levedygtig bestand i nordvesteuropa som anses som invasiv. Foruden nilgåsen blev vi underholdt af to rastende tårnfalke, en enkelt trækkende og en trækkende ung rørhøg:)
- SDP

Ringmærkning:

Since Estelle left in the early morning, it was me to do the ringing on my own today. The wind was low and conditions should have been good, so to be on the safe side I did not open the extra bush nets in the morning. I had a nice start with two garden warblers and a redstart. A clear sign that migration is not a myth and that it is actually on – we just don’t see much of it but today we saw some of it.

It was nice to actually have some migrating birds for a change and when the next net check was empty I decided to open the bush nets after all, thinking birds arriving might be hiding in the shrubs once commotion starts around the lighthouse. It did not help much.

What seemed to help a lot more in the catching was Sverre and Thomas deciding to join me in the ringing after they finished observations. Suddenly there were birds again – although for the most part local birds. Bullfinch must have had a fantastic breeding success this year since we seem to be catching an endless supply of juveniles.

And in order to scare Sverre off a little bit – who had just managed to take his first bird out of the net – we caught a woodpecker. This one can actually hurt a bit, not like most other birds we catch, so I didn’t let him handle it, so as not to frighten him too much. He was starting to learn quickly but then even the local birds disappeared and we closed the nets.

Great Spotted Woodpecker (juv)

 Still, it was a reasonable day after all with 9 different species and finally some migrants too.

MH

Folk på stationen:
Martina Hillbrand, Sverre Dahl Porsgaard og Thomas Kristensen