Low winds and special birds in and above the net

Morgenobs
The wind died down! We are now down to a mere one meter per second from southeast! Thats exciting as it brings new birds to the area. The day started off great with a BEAUTIFUL peregrine falcon (vandrefalk) eating a meal mid air! What a sight, suvh a graceful animal devouring another bird without even landing.. Next up we had some golden eyes and mallards (hvinand og gråand) along with teals, pintails and wigeon (krikand, spidsand, pibeand) and almost 200 eiders (ederfugle)! Not a bird day for the diversity of the duck species. I heard on the grapewine (the walkie-talkie app zello) that Henrik Bøhmer and the ringers saw a KINGFISHER over the lighthouse garden. That is incredibly rare out here and only the fifth find for the area, the fourth being earlier in the season. The most exciting bird of the day was a beautiful great northern diver (islom) flying north over us. It looked enormous with its clumsy feet sticking out from behind, definetely a first for me. What a day at the obs. Nice with a busy day before its back to the north western wind tomorrow.

After the obs, Henrik, Thomas and i went further down the beach to look for rare scoters like surf scoter or american scoter. We did'nt find anything worth mentioning, but fun none the less.

Later in the day the youth part of DOF arrived to the area. I was on a wonderful camp in the spring, with these young an talented birders. I met a lot of cool, experienced and kind birders and i look forward to seing them again in the coming week. You can easily spot the young birders in Blåvand, as they tend to bike around at full speed with a scope flinged around their back;)

- SDP

Ringmærkning

Today was a very exiting day! It started a few thrushes, including 2 beautiful red wings (vindrossel)! Then after getting a few flocks of goldcrests (fuglekonge) we had our first fire crest (rødtoppet fuglekonge) of the morning, which we were able to show to a nice sized group of enthusiastic birdwatchers! After a lot of busy rounds we ended up getting 3 greater spotted woodpeckers (stor flagspætte) and then our second fire crest! As the day dragged on, as a last bird of the day we had my(Lua) first Red Crossbill! A wonderful young female! And after a busy day of ringing, we ended with over 200 birds! What a great Autumn day!

- a Female red crossbill (lille korsnæb)

- LK

Folk på stationen: Lua Koplin, Sverre Dahl Porsgaard, Mathilde Lundt Larsen, Anna Beluga Gade-Jørgensen og Andreas Pedersen