Jackdaws and manual labor for our new observer

Morgenobs

Today is unfortunately the last day with visitors in the house and at the observation. We were however still alot of nice and competent people at the obs. The amount of skilled observers combined with a great south-easterly wind gave me plenty of nice birds to note down. WE HAD 647 EIDERS AT THE OBS! That is quite a lot for this area, and we are very pleased with that. Add some ducks, 12 sparrowhawks, five hen harriers 66 buzzards, a red kite, 750 jackdaws, 200 rooks, 2900 bramblings and chaffinches and you've got yourself a recipe for a WONDERFUL day. Even though we did not have a lot of rarities, it have been a really fun and entertaining day at the observations post:)

Later in the day Oliver Laursen arrived at the staion. He is going to be my co-observer til the end of the season in mid november. I look forward to having him at the obs. Oliver has been an observer here for a couple of weeks before, so instead of showing him around we gave him some manual labor straight away and started chopping firewood and clearing out trees that had fallen down and. A great and hardworking day here i Blåvand.

- SDP

Ringmærking

The morning started off not as cold as the day before, but it did get colder throughout the day, which we noticed also within the bird activity around the nets. Most observed birds were enjoying the warm sun up on a cozy tree, rather than hopping around foraging or doing long distant flights. We did however still catch a nice variety of wonderful species and a few flocks of blue tits and great tits with a few single coal tits. The most beautiful bird was this dashing tree Sparrow, always a pleasure!

- Tree sparrow (skovspurv)

Folk på stationen: Lua Koplin, Sverre Dahl Porsgaard, Mathilde Lundt Larsen, Anna Beluga Gade-Jørgensen, Andreas Pedersen samt gæster i forbindelse med Felttræf, Oliver Laursen