Hej allesamen !
Højdeepunktet i ringmærkning var en flot 1k Bjergvipstjert, hans mor kaldte på ham da vi fandet ham i nettet, men hun blev ikke fanget i nettet.Vi har også fanget en 2k+ jernspurv, for nogle fugle er lidt svært til at bestemme deres alder på den tid af året,derfor må man sige 2k+, hvis man er ikke sikker på at det er en 2k eller 3k+ fugl. 

Omkring 06:00 begyndte det at regne, så vi sluttede ringmærkning tildlig. Derefter gik vi til havnen, der så vi en mærkelig Sule i vand og et par Tejster. Vi var bange for at Sulen ikke var sund fordi den var meget passiv. Til sidst fløg den dog afsted, og vi fik taget nogle gode billleder.

Om eftermidaggen, ankom der 3 nye frivillige : Frederik Johansen, Jonathan Pedersen og Oskar Zeeberg Nielsen. Da de ankom, kiggede de gennem nogle af vores biblioteksbøgerne og tog på en lille Tur ud på Grenen. Derefter spiste vi dejlig Pizza med hjemmelavet pizza dej fra Martina.

Ringmærkning :

1 Bjergvipstjert

1 Munk

1 Jernspurv

1 Solsort

4 Tornsanger

2 Gærdesanger

1 Musvit

10 i alt

Folk på station : Simon S. Christiansen, Frank Osterberg, Martina Hillbrand, Taïma Lorentzen, Frederik Johansen, Jonathan Pedersen, Oskar Zeeberg Nielsen, Joern Kabel, Anders Rasmussen, Anna-Mette og Dagmar

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So, after having to move it because of the rain the night before we finally went out with Lars Bo to catch nightjars (natravn) last night. It was the perfect night and it did not take us long to also find the perfect spots to set up nets. While setting them up we heard two nightjars singing already. We had just finished setting up the nets when two guests arrived, Ida and her husband who had stayed in the apartment a while ago but hadn’t gotten to see nightjars so they came back only for this night. They also brought home-made chocolate cake and tea and coffee for us – what a treat!

The mosquitos weren’t quite as bad as expected so it was a fine night really. And it got even better when we were waiting for the first net check and a nightjar suddenly started flying about our heads like a bat. We got a great view of it and it was really only very few meters away. It was little surprise then to find another nightjar in the net at the first check. Even better, we found 2, a male and a female! So that and the cake kept us busy until about 1.30am when we caught the next male. After that, unfortunately, the speakers we use for luring the birds died and so Lars figured it wouldn’t make sense to stay. I didn’t mind getting back early because I still wanted to go ringing in Kabeltrommeln so we packed up the nets and left. Well, before we left we got an even better view of even more nightjars flying around. They are amazing birds, really! Like bats, just better.

Thrushes were already singing when we left so we wouldn’t have stayed much longer anyway and so everybody was happy to go, also to get away from the mosquitos. Little did we know that the mosquitos at Kabeltrommeln were even worse than at Sandmilen today. The mosquitos clearly said it would be raining soon but the weather forecast didn’t and I believed the latter – common mistake committed be tech generation, I guess. Well, so we opened the nets at Kabeltrommeln and we did two net checks with very few birds when suddenly it started raining out of the nowhere and quite hard too. After checking four different weather forecasts we decided to close the nets and not risk anything seeing that we had been catching flocks of young birds lately and there was at least one flock of siskins (grønsisken) moving about the sites where we have the nets – one individual was caught. You don’t want a net full of them when it is starting to rain…

Back at the lighthouse we tried to catch up on sleep lost and then welcomed the new guests in the apartment. Anders, Anna-Mette and their daughter will stay with us for this week and hope for more nightjars.

Finally, Taima and me went to Skarvsøen for the cormorant monitoring. It is good to see that quite a few cormorant chicks are now as big and mobile as the adults and are therefore out of danger of predation. On the other side, we also saw a nest with 4 quite young chicks and a new nest with a female incubating. Unfortunately we do not know if the nest really is new or it has just been missed on the last few visits. It is also very unlikely that juveniles born very late in the year will survive so it is questionable if it is worth the effort but the birds don’t seem to calculate chances like that.

After a nice dinner made once again by our amazing chef from England, Frank, we went to bed early to be a little bit fresher for ringing tomorrow. See what the next week will bring!

Ringmærkning (Sandmilen):

Natravn 3

Ringmærkning (Kabeltrommeln):

Grønsisken 1

Tornsanger 3

Munk 2

total: 9

Folk: Frank Osterberg, Martina Hillbrand, Taima Lorentzen, Lars Bo, Anders Rasmussen, Anna-Mette og Dagmar

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The day started with high expectations as after a stormy few days and quite some rain today there was almost no wind and it was promising to be a real summer day – well, with the local humidity, 26 degrees is literally tropical weather.

The birds apparently also decided to take it easy on such a warm day and the only thing flying in the morning was hundreds of mosquitos. We went to Grenen early to open the nets but came back empty-handed from the first net check. Simon decided that the ringing was too boring and went to go sea-watching instead. We were in the middle of a not so bad net check when the phone was ringing and he called to say he could see orcas close to shore. Seeing that bird numbers were still low and you don’t get the chance to see orcas every day I told Taima to go to Simon and I did the birds on my own for that time. After ringing them, I tried to see the orcas from Kabeltrommeln and I did! Three of them suddenly came up out of the water and just after I saw another one. Simon also took a video through the scope that you can find on our Facebook page.

As for the ringing, very much like yesterday it did speed up later in the morning with lots of juvenile birds. While yesterday it was newly hatched lesser whitethroats (gærdesanger) we mainly caught, today we had several families of whitethroats (tornsanger). It is really good to see that all the effort the parents put into defending the territory pays off! In the meanwhile we are still waiting for the first juvenile reed warblers to stop by our nets. They have definitely been singing a lot too!

Jørgen and Igor hadn’t visited us for a while but they came today to see the orcas and to tell us that the dipper (vandstær) had actually been sleeping in their carport this night. I guess the habitat it chose might not be quite what it was looking for. We can only hope that it will find a spot where it feels more at home. It hasn’t been seen since so hopefully it already went to look for a more suitable habitat.

The warm weather was good for raptors, even though migration should be over by now, honey buzzards (hvpsevåge) are still moving about and we see them almost every day. Today some more than on other days and one had been sleeping just next to one of our nets. We flushed it on the first net check.

Lisbet and Bent already had to leave today since that had a family gathering to attend to. We hope to see you again next year! On Sunday our next guests will arrive.

Since this night looks clear we will go for nightjar catching tonight. Wish us luck – we will need it (maybe more so than the Danish football players)! We will write about our success or lack thereof tomorrow.

Ringmærkning (Kabeltrommeln):

Bogfinke 1

Gransanger 1

Kærsanger 1

Rørsanger 4

Gærdesanger 1

Tornsanger 13

Musvit 1

total: 22

Folk: Frank Osterberg, Martina Hillbrand, Taima Lorentzen, Simon S. Christiansen, Erik Christophersen, Jørgen Kabel and Igor.

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Hello all!

With over 40 birds in the mornings ringing, it was a busy session! at around 07:30 we had 24 birds in the period of one round, mostly consisting of juvenile first years which, apart from the odd rare and migrant, is what we hope for this time of year. With families of whitethroats, common and lesser (Tornsanger/ Gærdesanger) and Great tit (Musvit) along with some lone first years it was nice to see them be so successful and all in good condition. After the mandatory power naps, me and Taima did some data updates for the freezer list with Simon and went up to the juvenile Dipper (Vandstær) that had been found feeding in the ditch along Bøjlevejen. Luckily, it was very inquisitive coming very close on some occasions watching it feed along the sides of the bank.

Bent and Lizbeth went up to the cormorant (Skarv) colony and saw the nesting birds including the nesting red-necked grebes (Gråstrubet lappedykker) then they went for stroll around Grenen and into town for a coffee for a relaxing last day here at Skagen, they also then joined us for their last meal and provided the ice cream. Martina cooked dinner, a Potato, leek and spinach Strudel which was very nice and we're thankful for the extra portions which will be used the following day!

Ringing totals; 40

Solsort 2

Munk 2

Gulbug 2

Musvit 10

Blåmejse 2

Rørsanger 4

Kærsanger 2

Grå Fluesnapper 1

Tornsanger 5

Havesanger 1

Gransanger 2

Løvsanger 1

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Godaften ! 

Martina vågenede tillidt i morges for at tage op på Grenen og tælle Terner, desværre var der ikke så  mange som hun havde håbet. Næste gang vil vi prøve at tælle Terne en sen aften, måske er det bedre. Bagefter, reparede hun vores cykler, det er vi rigtig glæde for, mange tak Martina !

Herefter åbnede vi nettene i fyrets have, vi håbede vi kunne få nogle fugle i nettene før regnen komme, men desværre kom der ingen fugle i nettene. Da regnen kom besøgte Frank og jeg  oplevelsescenteret i fyret, det var rigtigt oplysende og godt lavet. 

Lisa Vergin tog til Batteriskoen og fik set en Vandstær i dag ! Her er et flot billede af Thom Kongerslev :

Ingen ringmærkning i dag.

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Folk på station : Lisbeth og Bent , Simon S. Christiansen, Frank Osterberg, Martina Hillbrand, og Taïma Lorentzen

It has been an interesting morning at Jennes Sø where we do the CES ringing once every 10 days. The goal of the CES is to have a monitoring of breeding birds which includes the breeding success. Today we saw the first signs of such a success as we did have several juvenile birds (born this year) in the nets. The best treat, of course, was a net full of blue tits (blåmejse), 4 juveniles with their mother.

Besides that, we also had the first juvenile blackbird (solsort). For all of these the juvenile plumage is quite different from the adult plumage so it is easy to identify them as juveniles. In other birds, like most of the warblers (e.g. gransanger, havesanger, kærsanger, rørsanger) this is not so easy. With experience you can still age those birds as well and today we had 3 chiffchaffs (gransanger) from this year, along with two adults but they were in the nets at different times so probably not one family. Seeing the many chiffchaffs singing everywhere you would also expect a lot more of them.

Just as we closed the nets for the day we also saw a family of crested tits (topmejse) but we did not manage to catch them. Looking at them was fun too, though.

Taima and Frank went to the cormorant colony later for the monitoring at Skarvsøen. The remaining birds are doing well and will probably start to fledge over the next few weeks. When you see all the cormorants flying back and forth and realize just how many weeks it takes for them before their offspring is ready to feed for themselves, songbirds do seem quite lazy in contrast because it usually only takes them about 4 weeks to raise their chicks. On the other hand, many of the songbirds do make use of the time saved by starting another clutch. A female blackbird that we caught today and who was obviously carrying an egg is proof for that. The first brood must have left the nests already and she just started the next right after that. Here is a juvenile we caught today:

When we got back we took the time to look at the moths we caught in the mothtrap during the night. There were some pretty ones, among them this:

Aftenpåfugleøge

In the afternoon Frank and I went out to fix the remaining nets at Kabeltrommeln in order to be prepared for autumn migration when it starts. For now, however, the winds picked up quite a bit during the day and will stay strong throughout tomorrow so there will not be any ringing tomorrow. We have other work to do for now and hope for better weather from Friday onwards.

Ringmærkning (Jennes Sø):

Blåmejse 5

Gærdesmutte 1

Gransanger 5

Munk 1

Kærsanger 1

Gærdesanger 2

Tornsanger 3

Solsort 3

Sangdrossel 1

total: 22

People: Frank Osterberg, Martina Hillbrand, Taima Lorentzen, Simon S. Christiansen, Bent and Lizbeth Sorensen.

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Godaften !

This morning was a good day for ringing! it was Martina's first ringing session back here in Skagen, we caught a good diverse range of species with some rung less often at Kabeltromen as well as more of this year's juveniles so that's always nice to see. We had a small family of Gærsanger with 2 adults and 2 first years, other highlights were an adult male sisken (Grønsiskin), two first-year Nuthatches (spætmejse, mørkbuget), and a juvenile crested tit (topmejse) along with the usual more common birds which are always a pleasure to catch. whilst between checking the nets I also found a bee-eater (Biædere) flying directly above the site and Simon spotted a spotted redshank (Sortklire) also flying over earlier in the morning and a wood sandpiper (Tinksmed) along the shore. so overall a productive and interesting morning. During the ringing, we were visited by our current guests next door Bent and Lisbeth, where we demonstrated how the nets are used and when we capture a bird how they're processed which they found very informative. We were also joined by another small group where Simon gave a small introduction to ring marking and showed up close the birds in the hand and also around some nets. 

   We then came home and had a short nap before Taima and Martina went back to Kabeltromen to do some net maintenance until we regrouped later also joined by Niels for a nice vegetarian lasagne prepared by Bent and Lisbeth which was very nice, we then enjoyed some cake and coffee brought by Niels which was also very enjoyable, later on this evening will be the Nightjar guided tour organized by Niels which Bent and Lisabeth will be attending so we hope they see and hear plenty of nightjars which we will update in tomorrows blog. 

Ringmarking (kabeltromen):

Topmejse 1 

Spætmejse, Mørkbudget 2

Bogfinke 3

Gransanger 3

Kærsanger 1

Rørsanger 3

Gærdesanger 5

Tornsanger 3

Grønsisken 2

Solsort 2

Havesanger 1

total: 26

People: Frank Osterberg, Martina Hillbrand, Taima Lorentzen, Simon S. Christiansen, Lars Bo, Niels Eriksen, Bent and Lizbeth Sorensen.

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Hi everybody !

The day started with goodbyes to Jonas and Michaela. They will be greatly missed, thank you for all of what you have done at the station.

We then went to Buttervej to find Red backed Shrikes (Rødrygget Tornskade). We saw a meadow pipit (Engpiber) some green finches (Grønirisk) and some pretty flowers, and finally only saw one Red backed shrike. 

skov-gøgelilje , Platanthera chlorantha

Kragefod , Comarum palustre L. 

We went back through the city to treat ourselves to hot-dogs, then picked up Martina with Simon at the train station. We hope to learn a lot about bird ringing from Martina in the next few weeks. 

No ringing today. 

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People : Simon S Christiansen, Martina Hillbrand, Michaëla Berdougo, Taïma Lorentzen, Frank Osterberg, Lisbeth og Bent og Jonas Pedersen .

Ja d'herrer og de damer. Så kom dagen.
Mit første blogindlæg var den første marts og det var også dagen efter jeg ankom. Da jeg kom havde jeg udsigt til 4 måneder med mange fugle. Og det var lige netop det jeg fik. Det har været et fantastisk forår, måske det største nogensinde???

Der var langt mellem de gode perioder, men da de slog til var det ketchup effekt så det vil noget, hold kæft nogle dage, og hold kæft nogle fugle.

Det er vel meget passende med en lille opsummering af månederne. Michaela har allerede lavet et resume af foråret. men jeg vil da glædeligt byde ind med mit eget.

Marts var en overraskende måned for mig. Jeg havde overhovedet ikke forventet det havfugletræk som var i vente. Ekstremt mange tal og nogle stressende dage hvor kliktællerne gløede. Trækket bestod mest af alkefugle, suler og sortænder. Af rariteter kan nævnes de mange fine topskarver, bla. rekordflokken på 20 styks, den største i Danmark nogensinde. Udover det, de to hvide måger, henholdsvis gråmåge og hvidvinget måge. Selvfølgelig kongeørn, islom og en sjat lunder, en art jeg selv var særligt glad for.

(Foto: Knud Pedersen)
April var igen en stor måned med mange tal, der var dage med træk som jeg aldrig nogensinde har oplevet før og som jeg bestemt håber på at opleve igen. Det største var klar de mange finker der trak lige i midten af april, jeg var overhovedet ikke klar over opgaven som jeg fik da jeg skulle tælle dem alle. Hold da kæft!!!
Udover det var der jo nogle spækhuggere som fyldte en hel del, det var godt nok en oplevelse. Arterne der fyldte mest var, Høgeørn, (Steppevåge), hvidnæbbet lom, steppehøg og på en eller anden måde fyldte den sortbrynede albatros som Alex Sand Frich fandt. Jeg så jo ikke selv fuglen, men den fugl er noget af det mest legendarisk jeg kunne forestille mig, og at vide at den har været så nær mig var også stort.

I Maj kunne jeg fornemme at antallet af fugle fald, men antallet af rariteter steg kraftigt. Jeg nød måneden med mange fuglekigger og mange sjældne fugle. Der er her mange arter at nævne men den største var selvfølgelig den gulnæbbede glente som Michaela fandt og fotograferede og som jeg efterfølgende bestemte ud fra billeder. Det er (hvis godkendt(please SU)) ny art for landet, og den sjældneste fugl jeg nogensinde har set i Danmark. Udover det var der en fantastisk oplevelse da den længe ventede prærietrane trak ud over grenen med retning mod Norge, disse øjeblikke glemmer jeg aldrig nogensinde. 

(Foto: Jørgen Kabel)

Efter en maj måned hvor jeg tror alle havde forventet lidt mere kom Juni, og denne juni var det vildeste jeg nogensinde havde oplevet. Jeg havde overvejet at forlade Skagen omkring den 15 men det var godt jeg ikke gjorde dette.
Der var nogle vilde store dage. Bla den første juni da jeg lavede Skagens 40 fund af Citronvipstjert, en pisseflot han. Den anden juni stod den på østlig rødrygget svale, førstefund for landet samt spækhugger, (formentlig korttået lærke) pomeransfugl og meget mere. Vi bliver ved og den tredje står den på Bjergløvsanger som vi efter den ummidelbare feltobs fanger og ringmærker. Den fjerde står den på adskillige buskrørsangere og en masse aftenfalke, samt begyndelsen på rosenstære-invasionen.
Den femte var dagen, en dag så stor at den forevigt vil stå i historiebøgerne. Vi starter stærkt ud med Silkehejre, rosenstær, aftenfalke, citronvipstjert, lunde, biæder, pirol, kongeørn, buskrørsanger, sort glente. Og da man troede morgenen var fin blev bomberne smidt. Høgeørn, Lille skrigeørn(3?!?!), Gåsegrib!?!??! og sort f*****g stork. hvad sker der lige. Det bliver ikke glemt, nogensinde.

(Foto: Erik Christophersen)

og udover det var juni jo spækket med andre sjældne fugle og store oplevelser som bonapartemåge, atlantisk skråpe, kejserørn og sidst men ikke mindst en rosenterne.

(Foto: Oluf Lou)

Ulven udeblev... men den må jeg se en anden dag, måske når jeg kommer tilbage til skagen??

Nå! Nu er det tid til dagens strabadser og jeg efterlader fortiden som den var.

Idag sov nogle af os længe og andre knap så længe. Michaela og jeg fik gjort lidt klar med nogle af de sidste hængepartier.
De andre stod op lidt efter, Michaela pakkede og bookede en flybillet så hun kan komme hjem til la france. Jeg skrev de sidste SU-rapporter, så venter vi jo spændt på at SU godkender dem:) 
Jesper og Anne tog afsted, i har været mega fede at have på besøg, tak for jeres energi!!
om eftermiddagen gik vi alle en tur, men med 4 forskellige destinationer jeg kørte til buttervej og her skulle jeg nok have haft Frank med da jeg havde nogle fede rødryggede tornskader som han ikke har set ufatteligt mange af
Han så tilgengæld en duehøg og vil forsøge sig med tornskaderne imorgen.
Michaela gik på stranden og fotograferede nogle bette præstekraver, her mødte hun også vores tidligere gæster Anders og Dorte, og ja det er selvfølgelig Ander som havde os med på oceanariummet, tak for det!
Simon var også kommet tilbage fra København, han ville gerne se rosenterne, men de var uden succes. tilgengæld vandt vi i fodbold og det var han glad for, og han havde haft en fin tur i københavn

Til eftermiddag kom dagens højdepunkt, vi skulle ringmærke slørugleunger på en gård syd for Skagen og det var fandme fantastisk. Lars Bo kom og hentede os og Knud og andre stod klar nede ved gården
Det blev til to unger, et forholdsvist lille kuld, men det giver god mening efter et koldt forår.

Vores nye gæster Bent og Lisbeth kom også med til ringmærkningen efter en 6 timers lang køretur.

Til aften stod den på carbonara a la Taima og det var bare godt. Så tog vi også en tur i fyrtårnet og fik lidt at drikke på Blink.

Nu vil jeg sige farvel, det er selvfølgelig trist og jeg ved at i kommer til at savne mig så ufatteligt meget....... Men frygt ej! Jeg kunne naturligvis ikke finde på at forlade jer.
Så! her i efteråret kan i snildt følge med i Blåvand fuglestations blog(Det gør i vel allerede ikke?:)) for der vil jeg tilbring mit efterår.

Tak til alle de gode mennesker der har været her i løbet af foråret, i ved hvem i er!!

Ka i ha det!
vi ses
Jonas

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Folk: Simon S Christiansen, Knud Pedersen, Michaëla Berdougo, Taïma Lorentzen, Frank Osterberg, Lars Bo Lisbeth og Bent og Jonas Pedersen .

Hey you all!

This post will be my last, as I am leaving Monday morning.
I have to say, this has been a surprising experience. I arrived here, worried that I wouldn't make it for 4 months. I had very little knowledge of European birds, and when I got to know that the person I was going to be with, Jonas, was a great birder very involved in DOFung at only 19 yo, well I freaked out even more.
The first week was a tough one: I was not expecting to be sitting for four hours in the cold in so much wind. I think I cried a little one of the days. I had to go buy snow pants and a big coat which saved me for most of the season.
Morning obs late March. Left to right: Michaëla, Jonas og Knud Pedersen.

Little did I know that I would miss going observing when I was put on ringing most of the days. I missed out on some great observing days at Nordstrand, especially the big finch and thrush days. I did have an amazing one though, with a lot of Pallid Harriers - Steppehøg, and it was just amazing seeing everyone's excitement about rarities being called out.
Never would I have expected to have been the one taking pictures that allowed the find of a new species for Denmark, the Yellow-Billed Kite - Gulnæbbet Glente (and no, I did not keep the bird secret as some might say ;))
This is the picture used for identifying the Gulnæbbet Glente

I was not ready for such short nights in May, but it has been surprising to see how my body adapted. I always thought I needed my 8 hours, but five hours of sleep went from being not enough to being a restful night of sleep.
I wasn't expecting to meet such weird people that are now some of my best friends, and I don't think I have laughed so much in such a short period of time. We had such a great team and such great times together.
Twitching Gulnæbbet Glente the morning after. Left to right. Bottom: Laima, Anders, Michaëla. Top: Mikkel, Rasmus, Jonas.

Left to right: Laima, Igor, Michaëla

Left to right: Anders Rasmussen, Mikkel, Rasmus, Laima, Michaëla, Jonas og Daniel.

Meeting the local birding community has been such a pleasure, as well as meeting visiting birders in May. Getting to know our weekly guests has brought many adventures, surprises, and so much knowledge.
Jonas, Martin og Kristine, two of our guests, looking for Stor Tornskade

I have had such a great time here, and while I am ready for new adventures in yet another new country, I feel sad leaving this place that I've been calling home for nearly four months.

To the local community: big thanks to Knud for helping me with observations at the beginning of the season, to Oluf for being such great help and company during the ringing, to Jørgen for your presence at ringing, your kindness, and your generosity, to Erik for always bringing your smile and happiness, to Igor for being the sunshine of my day and for all the hair you left on my clothes.
To Lars Bo for taking us ringing Nightjars - Natravn, to Jan Speiermann for your kindness, your help, and your patience on busy days at Kabeltromlen, and to Henrik Kisby for your lovely long-term presence at Kabeltromlen.
To all of our guests for bringing such diversity and excitement to our everyday life.
To all the volunteers that have come and gone, you're so fucking awesome.
To Simon, for giving me such a great opportunity.

Now that I've shed a few tears, here is how our day went.

Following the barbecue and a few drinks, Jonas was the first one to wake up. I followed shortly after and started sorting my future out. Taïma and Frank got then woken up by Jonas, as a Rosean Tern - Rosenterne got called out, seen on Grenen. Off we went, met with Agnita, Jørgen, Erik, and Knud. We got to see it resting on the beach with other terns which was the best view to observe differences. A rosey breast, a black bill, short bright red/orange legs (with a ring!), and very bright compared to a Common Tern - Fjordterne or Arctic Tern - Havterne. It also went foraging, and the difference in its flight was actually quite obvious: a faster wingbeat, a lighter bird with a breezier flight.

Rosenterne på Grenen. Photo: Kund Pedersen

Taïma, Frank, and I went home, Taïma made some incredible crepes for our late breakfast, and I started packing. Jonas came back later and was on a meeting with DOFung to organise their next trip.
Jesper and Anne went to the Fishermen's sheds and said there were about 150 of them including some fresh ones, meaning that they seem willing to keep it going as it is. :) They then went to the coastal museum where they learned about shipwrecks and the sailors' lives.

In the afternoon, Taïma and Frank worked on the freezer list, Jonas worked on the Netfugl article on the Roseate Tern - Rosenterne, we both worked on the rarity reports, I continued cleaning my gannet skull in the hope of taking it with me, and Jesper and Anne went to pick Elderberry flowers for dessert.
Frank went on a walk to Grenen, and found a young dead Beech Marten - Husmår. :( There are no apparent signs of the cause of its death, it is in good condition and doesn't seem to have gotten hit by a car.

Jesper and Anne cooked dinner for their last night, some fresh cod in a delicious curry and vegetable sauce accompanied with potatoes, and for dessert... Deep-fried elderberry flowers! Absolutely delicious.

Klik her for at se dagens observationer fra Dofbasen af fugle i Skagen.

Klik her for at se opsummeret observationer af rovfugle i Skagen

Folk:  Agnite og Jørgen Kabel, Knud Pedersen, Erik Christophersen, Oluf Lou, Taïma Lorentzen, Frank Osterberg, Jesper og Anne, Jonas Pedersen, og Michaëla Berdougo.

Following, the incredible Igor

Igor cracking up some jokes to Mag-Britt and Knud