It was raining a bit this morning when Leona and I woke up, prepared to go out to open the nets. But the unstable weather made it a bit risky for ringing so with Oluf we decided that we wouldn't open the nets today. At least we could all enjoy a few more hours of sleep. Manuel still went out in the morning. Unfortunately he didn't see never the Red-breasted Flycatcher (Lille Fluesnapper) or the Bluethroat (Blåhals). He took care of some paperwork and then came the big cleaning session in which we all participated to make the station perfectly clean. He also put the recorder out and cooked dinner, delicious as always !

Robbe worked most of the day on his university project but took small walks and saw a Great northern diver (Islom) over the garden, he went to the secret lake with Hanelie and there they found lots of nice flowers. Leona made scrambled eggs for us in the morning, she was on raptor summary duty, but also got the time to go to the beach. Her parents will be staying in skagen for a few days.

Dof Birdlife tent to the Nature meeting

Sum of the raptors in the area based on observations typed into DOFbasen the same day

People:  Simon S. Christiansen, Hanelie Sidhu, Alice Scalzo, Manuel Tacke, Leona Grottschallesoh, Robbe Cool, Søren Leth-Nissen and Karen Marie Leth-Nissen.

Today started according to the daily routine. Ringing was covered by Julie, Alice and Hanelie while Manuel did the observations. Both were slow but at least, when I arrived, we caught an interesting Acrocephalus in the nets. It was the first marsh warbler ‘Kærsanger’ for this year! We just had the lecture about this genus yesterday, so it felt like Simon could predict the future about the birds we were going to see. Yesterday he made another prediction about the steppe eagle ‘Steppeørn’. He told a birdwatcher of Copenhagen that the bird would show up around 10 o’clock. When the ringing ended, nobody but the guests had enough patience to wait longer. But the oracle of Skagen had spoken and exactly at 10 o’clock, the mastodont flew over. The guests were so amazed, they announced the bird with trembling voice and shaking hands on Zello. Manuel was also happy with the Serin ‘gulirisk’ he had this morning.

Meanwhile, some of us went to Ellekrattet to search the red-breasted flycatcher ‘lille fluesnapper’ that was announced without success. Leona continued her walk from Ellekrattet to the city center to eat a nice pancake.

Around noon we had to say goodbye to Joachim and Elie. It was really nice to have my friends here for some days. They really enjoyed the amazing the birding hotspot and were a great help during the observations. Unfortunately, Julie left as well for personal reasons but will come back later this year.

In the afternoon, Hanelie wanted to take a nap but the zello app boycotted this. She didn’t know the he Danish name of the bird that was announced so it had to be something good. A booted eagle ‘Dværgørn’ was seen by Erik, the rest of the afternoon is history…

Booted eagle (Erik Christophersen)

After some transport issues to the location, we all arrived and most of us could see this beautiful eagle! We saw not less than 5 eagle species. When following the booted eagle, I found 6 bee-eaters ‘Biæder’ and while following the steppe eagle, a black stork ‘sort stork’ . Everyone had his own highlight of the afternoon but everyone was happy! Back at the station we celebrated this with a nice meal and an improvised dessert.

Unfortunately, Simon just took a nap when all the good species were announced. During the day, he went to Michael Ancher to talk about making a new CES-site.

In the evening, we had a little surprise: the first succes with the raptor project. Although it wasn't a raptor we caught but hooded crow 'Gråkrage'.

Hooded Crow

Bird observations of today entered on dofbasen

Sum of the raptors in the area based on observations typed into DOFbasen the same day

Ringing (Kabeltromlen);

Bogfinke: 1

Havesanger: 5

Tornsanger: 2

Munk: 3

Kærsanger: 1

Gulbug: 1

Grå fluesnapper: 1

Løvsanger: 8

Gærdesanger: 5

Rørsanger: 1

Total: 28

People at the station: Simon S. Christiansen, Hanelie Sidhu, Alice Scalzo, Manuel Tacke, Leona Gottschalkson, Robbe Cool, Julie Kokholm, Søren Leth-Nissen and Karen Marie Leth-Nissen, Joachim Pintens, Elie Coremans, Michael Ancher.

Alice and Manuel went to the observation post at World’s End I early in the morning, for a day with sunny weather and warm air to enjoy during the bird counts. Elie Coremans and Joachim Pintens assisted in the counting. All four had lots of Marsh Harriers (Rørhøg) – started with a nice group of 26 Marsh Harriers that flew up from the reeds at 5 in the morning. Also, a Turtle dove (Turteldue) showed up, and some nice Orioles (Piroler).

Oriole (Pirol) (photo by Søren Leth-Nissen)

The raptors really started showing up around 9. Alice also had a little time for drawing at the observation post.

And tonight, Manuel has an important football match. Hamburg plays against Berlin and Hamburg should win! So, fingers crossed.

Robbe worked on the recruitment video and later, he went out with friends Elie and Joachim to the cormorant lake, where they saw many swallows taking insects over the lake.

Leona and Hanne-Lie opened the nets at Kabeltromlen at 4.15. The first round of checking the nets at 4.45 was scarce, but second round gave a lot of birds. Leona was excited to catch the Sedge Warbler (Sivsanger) and also enjoyed extracting the Wren (Gærdesmutte) from the net.

Hanne-Lie’s highlight of the morning was the recapture of a bird with a Helgoland ring from Germany. It was an adult Blackbird. Julie joined the ringing at little later, and together with Simon, she, Leona and Hanne-Lie ringed 36 birds in total, among them two Tree pipits (Skovpiber). Simon’s high lights of the day was the two Golden Orioles, the Golden Eagle (Kongeørn) and the Steppe Eagle, which we saw after closing the nets around 10.30. We had a great view from Kabeltromlen as it bounced at World’s End at turned back over Grenen, just above out heads.

Steppe Eagle (Steppeørn) (photo by Søren Leth-Nissen)

Today we also released the “cookie monsters” at Kabeltromlen, as we sold homebaked cookies made from a secret Birder’s recipe From the Blåvand Bird Observatory :-) We asked the visitors to Kabeltromlen to donate what they wanted in support of the Skagen Bird Observatory – most did by MobilePay, so we’ll know later how the sale went ;-)

Ringing at Kabeltromlen (photo by Søren Leth-Nissen)

Later in the afternoon, when the weather changed into a fog, Alice, Manuel, and Julie entered data. Leona put in the raptor summary for two days, while Hanne-Lie got some sleep in the afternoon.

Søren and I went on a new adventure today, participating in the pilot project on point counting with a recorder at Sardinkrattet and Ellekrattet, at the lake. We found it a great experience to do to the focused counting for five + five minutes at both observation posts, and we look forward to Simon’s evaluation of our performances. After all, we are just happy amateurs in this field.

I also enjoyed being part of the ringing, taking notes of the ringers work with the birds. Søren took a lot of pictures and enjoyed the company of the other visitors at the Kabeltromlen.

We had a very informative lecture on Acrocephalus (a group of Warblers) in the late afternoon, so now (hopefully) we all at the stationknow the differences between Blyth’s and Reed Warbler. Look for the emargination at the primaries :-)

Learning about Reed Warblers (Rørsangere) IS fun (photo by Søren Leth-Nissen)

Greetings from Karen Marie.

PS. And then, while writing the blog, we had an evening adventure, too. Robbe was on his way to town when he saw a Short Eared Owl (Mosehornugle) close to the road. He called us and some of us ran (or walked very fast) to the spot on Fyrvej. Unfortunately, it was chased away by two angry crows. But walking back to the Lighthouse, we crossed the meadow and found three beautiful Windchats (Bynkefugl), two males and a female, sitting in the shrubs. It was Leona's first of the species! And back at the Lighthouse, Søren saw a Wheatear go into the trap and eat all the worms, and right now we are aging it and next we will ring it and it is just all an adventure. As someone tol dme Monday: Everything can happen in Skagen!

People at the station: Simon S. Christiansen, Hanelie Sidhu, Alice Scalzo, Manuel Tacke, Leona Gottschalkson, Robbe Cool, Julie Kokholm, Søren Leth-Nissen and Karen Marie Leth-Nissen, Joachim Pintens, Elie Coremans, John Frikke.

Hello dear blog readers!

Today was a very eventful day. Leona, Robbe and Julie went ringing today. They had few birds but some nice species: Wood Warbler "Skovsanger", Bullfinch "Dompap", Tree Pipit "Skovpiber", Sedge Warbler "Sivsanger". Manuel and I went to Worlds End 2 and did the laser shooting. We shot lots of Sparrowhawks "Spurvehøg" and missed many of the cool species seen this morning, Worlds End 2 was not the best observation spot today: A Black Stork "Sort Stork" was seen and a few Red-footed Falcons "Artenfalk", Montegues Harrier "Hedehøg", also three Golden Orioles "Pirol", of which we only saw one. When I went back over Worlds End 1, a Montegues Harrier "Hedehøg" was just seen there, which I also saw very well. Back at the bird station I met Leona and Julie, we had lunch and then I left for Nordstrand, as there were many Red-footed Falkons "Artefalk" being announced on Zello. When I arrived we soon saw a Montegues Harrier "Hedehøg" and a Red-footed Falcon "Artefalk". Soon I was joined by Robbe and Alice and then Manuel. Manuel, Robbe and I stayed on the north beach for a few hours while Alice went on a long and nice walk. At Nordstrand, we saw many Red-footed Falkons "Artefalk", and also Golden Eagles "Kongeørn" and at the end a possible Eleonora's Falkon "Eleonorafalk". It was announced from Worlds End 1 and possibly, we saw it too. When we returned, many birdwatchers were standing on Fyrvej looking for the Eleonoras Falkon "Eleonorafalk".

We went to Ellekrattet to look for it. Without success. So we returned to the bird station. Karen-Marie and Søren joined ringing again today and then went on a tour with Simon. They saw Red-backed Shrike "Rødrygget Tornskade" and Wood Warbler "Skovsanger" and nice Hawfinches "Kernebider".

Hawfinch "Kernebider"

Karen-Marie and Søren also baked and cooked a delicious meal for us today. Now we have a session from Simon about the good birding spots in the world and then bed is calling. Sleep well, tomorrow will be exciting again!

Today’s observations in Dofbasen from observers in the area

Sum of the raptors in the area based on observations typed into DOFbasen the same day

Ringing (Kabeltromlen)

Løvsanger: 2

Gransanger: 2

Rørsanger: 2

Jernspurv: 1

Gærdesanger: 4

Lille Dompap: 1

Tornsanger: 9

Havesanger: 2

Bogfinke: 1

Sivsanger: 1

Skovsanger: 1

Skovpiber: 1

Solsort: 1

Total: 28

Hanelie

People at the station: Simon S. Christiansen, Hanelie Sidhu, Alice Scalzo, Manuel Tacke, Leona Gottschalkson, Robbe Cool, Julie Kokholm, Søren Leth-Nissen and Karen Marie Leth-Nissen, Louis Robeyns, Joachim Pintens, Frederik Johansen

A quiet day at the birdstation.

The morning started out really early for both Alice and Hanelie, who started their day 3:55 with opening the nets. The weather was absolutely beautiful with a clear blue sky, and we had great expectations for the day, after the large amount of birds coming through yesterday.

Karen Marie, Søren, Simon, Oluf and I joined in a bit later, for the first round of birds.

Due to more than 100 birds coming through the ringers’ hands yesterday, we hoped for one more exciting and busy day, but the capturing was a bit slower today. Unfortunately the amount of birds didn’t come near yesterday’s high numbers.

Fortunately every cloud has a silver lining, and due to the low amount of birds, Hanelie and Simon got time to teach me a lot about the ringing process and how to properly identify and age birds.

My beginner-license hasn’t arrived yet, so I can’t handle the birds, but until it does, I will listen and learn from a distance.

We mostly had Willow Warblers (Løvsanger), Robins (Rødhals) and Whitethroats (Tornsanger) coming through today, but also had a few Spotted Flycatchers (Grå Fluesnapper) and Blackcaps (Munk).

In the meanwhile, Robbe went to Nordstrand to do obersavations, but unfortunately also at Nordstrand the birds weren’t many.

Even though there weren’t many birds, Robbe was lucky and got to see 4 Black-throated divers resting at the coast.

Our last two team members Leona and Manuel were also out early to do todays laser-shootings. They were super lucky to see the Bee-eater (Biæder) as they arrived at Verdens Ende 2.

A bit more was happening at the laser-shooting, but not much. Manuel and Leona saw a few Honey Buzzards  (Hvepsevåger) and a few Cranes (Traner) that came really close.

As we decided to pack up at Kabeltromle and move home around 9.45, the raptors started coming out and Søren got some amazing pictures of two White-tailed eagles (havørn) playing and fighting mid-air.

(Photo by Søren Leth-Nissen)

When we arrived at the birdstation, we put in the data from todays observations and ringing, and took a nap. Leona and Manuel arrived a bit later.

Simon went to a meeting, and as he left the station he saw a group of Yellow Wagtails (Gul Vipstjert) right outside our door.

After the nap, Robbe and Alice moved out to see some plants and butterflies in the Nature Reserve and Hanelie joined up.

Julie and Leona stayed at the station, while Manuel went to Batteriskoven to see if he had any luck with the Red-breasted Flycatcher (Lille fluesnapper), unfortunately he didn’t.

Søren and Karen Marie went shopping and our day ended with a good meal and a visit from a Viper(Hugorm), right outside our front door.

We are all looking forward to tomorrow, we have heard the weather is going to be amazing and we hope to have some exciting things moving over Skagen tomorrow.

Today’s observations in Dofbasen from observers in the area

Sum of the raptors in the area based on observations typed into DOFbasen the same day

People at the station: Simon S. Christiansen, Hanelie Sidhu, Alice Scalzo, Manuel Tacke, Leona Gottschalkson, Robbe Cool, Julie Kokholm, Søren Leth-Nissen and Karen Marie Leth-Nissen, Louis Robeyns, Joachim Pintens, Elie Coremans, Hans Christophersen, John Frikke and Lars Bo Jakobsen

Ringing (Kabeltromlen)

Løvsanger: 15

Rødhals: 3

Gærdesanger: 2

Grå Fluesnapper: 2

Tornsanger: 3

Munk: 1

Total: 26

The early morning was a bit foggy but the sun broke through during the ringing hours at Kabeltromlen. The day was warm and brought many nice birds to Grenen. The ringing was good and the team ringed around a 100 birds, with Garden Warbler (Havesanger) as the most common, but we also had Flycatchers (Fluesnappere) and Blackcaps (Munk). Leona went out early ringing with Hannelie and Simon.

Søren and I had our first day at the station this year and joined the ringing team at Kabeltromlen for a nice morning with a lot of catches. We had great surprises like the Bee-eater (Biæder) and the Steppe Eagle (Steppeørn) (11th in Skagen), as well as a Golden Oriole (Pirol), and the only 18th Black Woodpecker (Sortspætte) in Skagen ever. We also had a few Great Northern Divers (Islom).

When they closed the ringing at 12, Hannelie and Leona found a special butterfly (Eyed Hawk Moth) Aftenpåfugleøje which sat on a rubber boot.

In the afternoon Leona and Hannelie tried to take a nap and afterwards Leona entered data, before they both went to do raptor field work at 16 with Simon. They did not see a lot of raptors, though, but both got new species for their lists. Coming back at 19, they sat up the Wheatear (Stenpikker) trap with worms outside the lighthouse.
 
Simon went to sweep the area and saw a Black Redstart (Husrødstjert) in the Industrial area where he also found a temporary little pond with a Common Sandpiper fouraging.

Alice had set the alarm early to watch the moon eclipse but due to the fog missed what should have been a blood moon. She went to place the bird call recorder in Ellekrattet, and then joined the team at Kabeltromlen and helped ringing. She and Manuel did the laser shooting at World's End II from 11-17, laser tagging between other birds three Ospreys and some Honey Buzzards cooperating with Jesper from Aarhus University project with the radar in the lighthouse garden (now you know that one is for :-)) Walking to World's End II they both saw the Bee-eater (Biæder) really close. During the laser work, they observed 1070 swifts and two nice Dotterels (Pomeransfugl) at Grenen Beach. Coming back, Alice started cooking nice dinner for us, while Manuel entered the data in the database.

Going back to Skagen, Robbe was stuck in Aalborg yeaterday, because trains did not run in the evening to get him back to Skagen and he arrived around noon. He went to World's End II to help out and also saw the many swifts. Robbe's Belgian friends Louis Robeyns, Joachim Pintens, and Elie Coremans are around these days and big thanks! helped out on observing the migrating birds. They saw a Quail (Vagtel) and two Mediterranean Gull (Sorthovedet Måge) .

Julie, a new member on the team, went birding in the morning with her father. They were hunting the Steppe Eagle (Steppeørn) and found it, and later she settled into the station where she will be for the next two weeks. Afterwards, she also went to World's End II where Manuel and Alice were laser tagging.

People at the station: Simon S. Christiansen, Hanelie Sidhu, Alice Scalzo, Manuel Tacke, Leona Gottschalkson, Robbe Cool, Julie Kokholm, Søren Leth-Nissen and Karen Marie Leth-Nissen, Louis Robeyns, Joachim Pintens, and Elie Coremans

See you for a another great Skagen Day tomorrow. I can't wait :-)

This morning Hanelie and Manuel went to Verdens Ende 1 to do the morning observation. They had nice company of birders there and a good variety of species. They saw at least 2 Great Skuas, 2 Black Guillemots, 3 Great Northern Divers and a Citrine Wagtail. 

I went to the beach because it was really warm outside, while Alice continued to send out applications for universities. Around ten the both of us worked on methods to catch and ring Raptors. Around this time we said goodbye to our guests Lisbeth and Vilhelm, we had a nice time with them. :)

- Alice happy to be outdoors

- The Wren I took a nice picture of

- Me at Batteriskoven with my camera

Afterwards Hanelie, Alice and I decided to use this quite free day to go to Batteriskoven and took the cameras with us. We saw a lot of different butterfly species, lizards, frogs and of course birds. I went after a Wren(Gærdesmutte) to get nice pictures of it. After that I got to see my first Golden Eagle and Crested Tit! We also saw a White tailed Eagle and a Pied Flycatcher.

Some time later Manuel joined us and we decided to try to find the Great Reed Warbler at the Cormorant Lake. We couldn't see it but Manuel said that he heard it.

At 5 pm our new guests Søren and Karen Marie arrived and helped Hanelie with the cooking.

Have a nice evening,

Leona.

People at the station: Simon S. Christiansen, Hanelie Sidhu, Alice Scalzo, Manuel Tacke, Leona Gottschalkson, Søren Leth-Nissen, Karen Marie Leth-Nissen, Joost Van Duppen

The wind was to strong today to allow us to open the nets, so this morning only Manuel and Leona got up, courageous enough to face the weather and sit at grenen for morning observations. Migration was quite slow once again, on land and sea, but they saw a few Fulmars (Mallemuk) far at sea, and Gannets (Sule) quite close to the shore. But it was good training for Leona, she got to recognise a few birds, and participated in clicking them for the first time. She also saw a Turnstone (Stenvender) for the first time. Hanelie and I woke up a bit later, we enjoyed a nice night of sleep and were up for some computer work. Hanelie worked on the picture archive and sent a few emails, meanwhile I sent a few applications for university.

Saturday is cleaning day, so in the late morning we all cleaned thoroughly the apartment. We had lunch, and we sat in the conference room with Simon to check a few pictures from ringed birds. Leona and Simon revised the ringing data, I sent one more application, Hanelie went out to make a phone call, and Manuel entered data.

Sum of the raptors in the area based on observations typed into DOFbasen the same day

People:  Simon S. Christiansen, Hanelie Sidhu, Alice Scalzo, Manuel Tacke, Leona Gottschalkson.

As always, when the wind is not too strong, we open the nets for ringing in the very early morning. Today Alice and Leona got up at half past three to have everything ready before sunrise. That is the standardised monitoring procedure. As the sun rose over the Kattegat, Simon and Hanelie joined for ringing and Manuel stared counting the usual four hours right at Kabeltromlebakken today.

During the morning, quite a few people joined to the "meeting point" Kabeltromle: birding, exchanging news, being surprised what is retrieved from the nets. Today some rarer guests came to the table in the cloth bags and are ringed, measured and weighed: A Wood Warbler Skovsanger, two Barn Swallows Landsvale, Spotted Flycatcher Grå Fluesnapper, Grey Wagtail Bjergvipstjert and the first Icterine Warbler Gulbug found their way into the nets. A nice variety of a good ringing morning.

Some beautiful species passed by the site while observing, too. A Golden Eagle Kongeørn is always a great species to see, otherwise you would have to travel several hundred kilometres, two Great Northern Diver Islom right over our heads were great to watch and a Spoonbill Skestork is not seen here every day either. A male Golden Oriole Pirol made a brief appearance on the tree tops of Ellekrattet and was great to see for a few observers, a real splash of colour.

Our guests Lisbeth and Vilhelm also stopped by the ringing site on their morning walk, get a close-up look at some Lesser Whitethroats Gærdesanger and also take a walk to the "tip".

For BirdLife Denmark we take our sound recorders out to different places at different times and record "soundscapes". Unfortunately, one of our Olympus recorders disappeared this morning near Grenen car park and we need it back. If anyone has seen it, please contact us!

The afternoon we spent indoors resting, entering data and making lunch. Robbe took the time to enter some data from a recorded night out at Kabeltromlen from 25th to 26th of April, which you can find here. Remarkable is that we managed to find a screeching Barn Owl Slørugle - a nice spring record. You can listen to it on Xeno Canto. 

Ringed Birds at Kabletromle:

Løvsanger: 18

Gærdesanger: 9

Broget Fluesnapper: 4

Landsvale: 2

Grå Fluesnapper: 1

Skovsanger: 1

Tornsanger: 1

Gulbug: 1

Rødstjert: 2

Bjergvipstjert: 1

Munk: 5

Havesanger: 3

Bogfinke: 2

Solsort: 1

Gransanger: 3

Total: 54

Hi everyone!

Before I started writing this blog, I ate a few joke biscuits (German: "Scherzkeks") to make my work go more smoothly.

So let's start with today's adventures of your five brave volunteers. There was no ringing today due to the strong wind. Nevertheless, Alice and I took over getting up early and headed for the morning observation at Verdens Ende 3. On the last stage of our walk to the observation point came the sign that would change the course of the rest of the day: While Alice and I walked fearlessly side by side towards the end of the world, Alice had an appearance: God showed himself to her.

The appearance

And he did not show himself to me, who was only a few meters away. You will see what drastic effects this had later in the day. But first, we took up our position and looked through the telescope at an empty sea. For 3 hours we waited without highlights and could observe more Common Terns "Fjordterne" than usual. In the third hour, we were joined by reinforcement: despite our warnings of a slow obs, the intrepid Manuel came with his telescope. Four observers also took up their posts a few meters from us. Among them Michael from Naturbutikken. They had observing success on their side and saw a Red-footed Falcon "Aftenfalk"! Unfortunately, we heard about it a little late and did not see it. Alice and I went back after three hours while Manuel took the fourth hour and saw some Fulmars "Mallemuk". Robbe meanwhile checked the nets in Kabletromle, as we hadn't ringed today or the last few days and it was so windy. When Alice and I arrived at the station, we met the first person who had been blessed with a present from God today: Leona had stayed at home this morning and had had a ten-hour night's sleep! This is a real rarity at a bird observatory and is considered by us to be the first gift from God of the day after Alice's revelation in the early hours of the morning. Full of energy Leona now set off to Ellekrattet. Robbe soon returned and we went through some videos of our most daring adventures for this autumn's recruitment video. Undaunted, I then sat down in front of the laptop to start entering the sheer mass of data we had collected today at Verdens Ende 3. But then a visitor knocked on the door: Mogens presented Manuel Gods' second stinking gift of the day in a plastic bag: He had most likely found wulf "Ulv" Shit!  A little later we told Simon the good news on the phone, who told me to put the plastic bag with the valuable contents in the freezer so that Aarhus University could check the DNA to see if it was really from a wulf "ulv". When I came out of the lab, the others had also gathered in the yard, because we were planning to have brunch in town today and finally try out Danish Smørrebrød. While four of us stood and talked, waiting for our full team to be ready to leave, Robbe got the third gift from God tucked into his jacket pocket. An unknown generous donator, who we would like to thank once again, slipped a grant for our Smørrebrød brunch into the pocket of the befuddled Robbe and praised our work. Thank you, we like to hear that and a little praise also encourages us. So the five of us cycled into town against the wind blowing straight at us and had delicious Smørrebrød and desserts in the Smørrebrød Cafe.

Manuel, Leona and I then went grocery shopping. In the afternoon, Robbe had a meeting for University and Alice got the fourth of Gods presents from a local: A dead viper for the Raptor-Catching Project. Thanks! When Manuel, Leona, and I came back from the supermarket, I took the three Kilos of potatoes we had bought out of my backpack. The fact, that these turned into at least eight Kilos of potatoes when I opened the storage cupboard is, I think, not due to Gods goodness, but to our mismanagement in doing groceries, at least concerning potatoes. We spent the rest of the day mostly inside with data entry, picture archive, nocmig and napping for some of us. Two friends of Robbe arrived in Skagen and they found a Great Reed Warbler "Drosselrørsanger" at the Cormorant lake! And Lisbeth and Vilhelm reported seeing God in the third figure, in form of a White-tailed Eagle "Havorn", very close at Batteriskoven. They also saw Black Kites "Sort Glente" and a Spotted Flycatcher "Grå Fluesnapper". Afterwards, they visited Skagen Odde Museum and had lunch in Skagen Bryghus.

And the end of the story: I am now the only black sheep in this house among all these enlightened people, who did not receive a gift from God today. However, I come to the conclusion, that I have also benefited from Gods goodness and so I decide that I am not completely abandoned by God after all and can also go to bed with peace in mind. I hope, you come to the same conclusion.

In any case, I wish you a good night!

Hanelie

Today’s observations in Dofbasen from observers in the area

Klik her for at se opsummeret observationer af rovfugle i Skagen

People: Simon S. Chistiansen, Hanelie Sidhu, Alice Scalzo, Manuel Tacke, Robbe Cool, Leona Gottschalkson, Lisbeth Drassech, Vilhelm Michelsen