Migration at the Odden: It was cold and windy at the tip this morning. I (Théophile) decided to stand inside the building for shelter. The duck migration was pretty good during the first two hours, with lots of teals, wigeons and mallards. It’s really nice to see them migrating, because in France it’s the most common duck and most people think it’s a local bird that doesn’t migrate. But they're wrong ! Once, in the Jardin des Plantes in the middle of Paris, someone took a photo of a mallard that had been ringed in Russia !

At around 8:30, after seeing a black-throated diver, another diver appeared, a larger bird with big legs, a strong bill, and the typical black-and-white contrast on the neck. It was a Great Northern Diver, the third of the season, a nice one.

Between 8:30 and 9:00, I saw a nice little rush of passerines, with around ten species, including a very late barn swallow and a few minutes later, a snow bunting. A rough-legged buzzard also appeared; it was the first I had seen in a few days.

Rough-legged buzzard (Buteo lagopus) Foto Théophile Fontaine

Between 9 am and 11 am, the ducks continued to migrate in large flocks of wigeons, red-breasted mergansers, common scoters and a few whooper swans.

Whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus) Foto Théophile Fontaine

The last hour was very slow, but at least, I enjoyed the sunshine.

Tomorrow, we will be with Ole at the tip, hoping for some smew !

Nyt fra fuglestationen: Søndag 16.11.2025 har vi haft møde i Gedser Fuglestations styregruppe. Vi kiggede grundigt på regnskabet for i år og budgettet for næste år. Det er sparetider i DOF/BirdLife Danmark, og vi er hårdt presset på fuglestationen. Lige som alle andre med en opsparing, kan vi dække underskuddet i budgettet ved at tage af formuen til blandt andet topbeskæring af haven og nye maskiner til at holde haven, men sådan kan vi selvfølgelig ikke køre i mange år.

 

Styregruppen i stationens mødelokale. Foto: Ole Friis Larsen/GFU

 

Desuden diskuterede styregruppen generationsskifte i ringmærkningen, planlægning af arrangementer, og hvordan vi kan få plads til en elev mere.

 

På det faglige plan viser vores nye registrering - et elektronisk 'øre' som optager lyd fra fugle døgnet rundt, året rundt - ud over ringmærkningen og træktællingen en fantastisk overensstemmelse mellem nu tre 'spor' vi vores bidrag til overvågningen og forståelsen af fugletræk.

Se dagens observationer fra Gedser Odde i DOFbasen.

Folk på stationen: Anne Marie Reith, Tina Elley, Mads Elley, Bo Kayser, Gert Juul Jeppesen, Hans Lind, Søren Myging, Théophile Fontaine, Ole Friis Larsen