The second day of the DKU meeting

Observation:

This was my second day of birdwatching with Thomas, and the fog refused to lift completely. It prefered to envelop the whole of Blavand and hide the distant silhouettes of the scoters, red-throated divers and other delighted birds.
We were still able to count for an hour, perched high on the dunes, eyes glued to the telescope.
We really hope the weather improves over the next few days so that we can return to standard counting methods.
In the meantime, here is today’s drawing (we saw eight of them flying north in the early morning).



Eurasian teal *eurasisk krikand*, by Clara

Today´s observations of observers in the area can be seen here.

Ringing:

When we opened, the it looked like the sun would manage today to break thought the clouds Indeed, we could do our first round under rather clear sky and it was a quite good round. But the sea fog is fast ant Blåvandshuk and unfortunately, the Radar was right. When we left the lab, the fog had captured Denmark´s westernmost point and also the birds thought that this was not a nice weather to fly. So after, rounds were rather slow. We caught another Chiffchaff “Gransanger” today and as the observers needed to cancel observations, Clara followed us on some rounds later in the morning and saw her first birds in hand!

Paula left the station today, we wish her all the best for her next adventures and hopefully she will get some more birds and especially better weather at her next stay.

While we were walking through the fog, DKU continued their meeting today.

At the station: Paula Feuchtmeyer, Clara Delahaye, Thomas Kristiansen, Hanelie Sidhu and DKU