A white tailed eagle flying near the lighthouse !

Sunrise at Blåvandshuk. Picture by Xenia

Observation :

There wouldn’t have been much to report on today’s sightings: a few hundred scoters, fewer than a hundred red-throated loons and other ducks...when suddenly Henrik exclaimed that the seagulls had all flown off all of a sudden... That something must have been scaring them. That was when we saw a white-tailed eagle flying off into the distance along the shore near the lighthouse. We were able to watch this magnificent raptor, with its impressive wingspan, for several minutes...What a luck. It is indeed the biggest raptor that breeds in Denmark ! 
Unfortunatly, we do not have a picture but tomorrow there might be a drawing...At least, here is one i've made yesterday : 


Flying common ringed plover [stor præstekrave] by Clara

Todays observations can be seen here.

Ringing : 

While spring seems to reach other parts of Denmark, we only get very short tastes of it here at Blåvandshuk. The passerines seem to feel that, and we do not see much migration. There are very few new birds and a lot of recaptures. Today, it was more recaps than new birds, 12:14. Is it because of the hard winter, the bad weather here or do we just see the biodiversity crisis in our daily work? Sometimes it is quite tough to get up before sunrise every morning to constantly get not much than over ten birds.

Blue Tit "Blåmejse". Picture by Xenia.

Today Morgan and I were joined by Xenia, who had high hopes of ringing some more birds, but experienced another slow day with us.

Live is sometimes not easy – also not wolves, moths or owls last night. Well, we can´t change the weather but it would be great if we could manage to slow down and lower the rate at which species and abundance of individuals are getting less.

In the afternoon, Mathilde left the station but we are hoping to see her soon again.

Now rain and wind is howling outside once again.

At the station: Mathilde Lundt Larsen, Thomas Kristiansen, Henrik Bøhmer, Clara Delahaye, Hanelie Sidhu, Xenia Salomonsen and Morgan Jarmer