Today me and Christian went to open up the nets at Kabeltromelkrattet, all nets were open around 07:00 and Simon and Judith joined us for the first round. Laia was doing observations at World’s End 3 with Knud.Rough-legged Buzzard (Fjeldvåge)

When we opened the nets it was stil very quiet, we flushed a few Snipes (Dobbeltbekkasin) from the ringing area and then waited for the sun to rise. It was a nice and peaceful morning (but very cold). Then Simon and Judith arrived and we started with the first round. The first round was pretty good, many birds! It looked pretty promising but after the first round things slowed down. But eventually we caught a Greenfinch (Grønirisk) which was very nice. Not a species we catch every day here. Observations from the ringing site were good with quite a few passerines on migration and Rough-legged Buzzard (Fjeldvåge) and Great Grey Shrike (Stor Tornskade) in the area!

In the meantime, Laia was doing observations. There was, except dexent numbers of Ganntes (Sule) and Common Scoters (Sortand), not much to see so she and Knud decided to check the many Reed Buntings (Rørspurv) that are present in the dunes at Grenen and they found a Lapland Bunting (Lapværling)! After that, they tried to relocate the Black Scoter (Amerikansk Sortand) but onfortunately they didn’t succeed. I hope it’s still around somewhere.

I left the ringing site a bit earlier to go birding down the road. I went back, changed clothes, ate something and then went out again. I took the stations’ camera with me to test it. Nobody here gets how Olympus settings work so it was far from ideal but I managed to see (and photopraph!) a nice 1cy male Hen Harrier (Blå Kærhøg), a Rough-legged Buzzard (Fjeldvåge) and some Crossbills (Lille Korsnæb). Apart from that, the weather was very nice and the place was beautiful, so I had a great walk!Hen Harrier (Blå Kærhøg)

Then, all of us went back to the observatory, had lunch and said goodbye to Yehonathan and our guests who had to leave us today. Later that afternoon, new guests and Niels arrived! Niels is here for the board meeting that will be held tomorrow. Christian, Judith and Laia went out for their daily swimming session (yep they’re a bit crazy) as well and we did some of the usual stuff such as typing in data. Christian and me prepared the microphone to record nocturnal migration calls, I’m already excited to see what we recorded!

Ringing (Kabeltrommelkrattet):

Wren - Gærdesmutte - 9

Robin - Rødhals - 4

Blackbird - Solsort - 3

Song Thrush - Sangdrossel - 1

Blackcap - Munk - 4

Chiffchaff - Gransanger - 6

Goldcrest - Fuglekonge - 2

Greenfinch - Grønirisk - 1

Reed Bunting - Rørspurv - 6

People: Simon S. Christiansen, Yehonatan Ben Aroia, Christian Stolz, Judith Kloibhofer, Laia Soler Iglesias, Koen Stork, Ulla Popp and Anders Jørgen Jensen.

Today was EuroBirdwatch-day! It is an event from Birdlife international with a focus on counting migratory birds and takes place all over Europe. So of course we also participated and Koen and Chris went out to Verdensende 1 to count every single bird. They got support by some other birders. In sum they counted a very good number of birds, with 3187 individuals in total. And that means that there were at least 10 or more birds in one minute! The highlight of the day was found by Erik Christophersen and was a Bluethroat! The most numerous species were Great Black-backed Gulls (Svartbag) with 339 and Common Scoters (Sortand) with 571 individuals.

Simon, Yehonatan, Laia and I went out for ringing in Kabeltrommelkrattet. We had a really good start with 27 birds in the first round. And also the rest of the morning was really nice. Dominant species were Wrens (Gærdesmutte) and Goldcrests (Fuglekonge). The highlight were two female Bullfinches (Lille Dompap). Yehonatan was hoping to catch some Bullfinches since his first day at this station and so they were like a farewell gift for him before he is leaving on Sunday.

There were also some visitors for the EuroBirdwatch-day. The guests in our apartment joined the ringing and the observations for a while and managed to find a nice rough-legged buzzard (Fjeldvåge). And three children get to know our “klickers” that we use for counting birds and had a lot of fun with helping to count all the birds that were passing by.

Chris was enjoying the observations and the sunny weather and did not want to stop at noon. So he continued the observations and went the beach and to Skarvsøen. It was totally worth it because he found some new nice birding places between the dunes and a Slavonian Grebe (Nordisk Lappedykker) and Eurasian Bittern (Rørdrum). He was so fascinated from the whole area that he stayed out till 5 o´clock.

The others used the afternoon for put in the data and having some rest. Yehonatan had to pack all his stuff and had a to-do list for his last day: climbing up the lighthouse and enjoying the beautiful view, going for a walk on the beach to say goodbye to the Snowbuntings (Snespurv) and buying some things in the shop downstairs. A wooden Crested Tit figure (Topmejse) will companion him on his journey to Copenhagen and then in one week back to Israel reminding him on the good time up here in Skagen.

In the evening I prepared some typical Austrian food: “Erdäpfelnudeln mit Kraut” (Potatonoodles with Cabbage) and as a dessert “Pflaumen-Knödel” (Plumb-dumplings). It was the last evening for our guests in the apartment (Ulla & Anders) and they present us some nice chocolate – thank you, we already enjoy the chocolate next to the coffee!

As you have read before the day was very busy and Chris and I found no time for doing our daily swim during the day. So we had to do it in the night. After finishing the dinner we went out and enjoyed the refreshment under the stars and the light of the lighthouse.

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Ringing (Jennes Sø & Kabeltrommelkrattet):

Meadow Pipit – Engpiber – 1

Wren – Gærdesmutte – 28

Robin – Rødhals – 5

Reed Warbler - Rørsanger – 1

Blackcap – Munk – 2

Chiffchaff – Gransagner – 8

Goldcrest - Fuglekonge – 25

Bullfinch - Lille Dompap – 2

Reed Bunting - Rørspurv – 5

Common Redstart – Rødstjert – 2

Blackbird – Solsort – 1

Crested Tit – Topmejse – 2

Coal Tit – Sortmejse - 2

Blue Tit – Blåmejse – 2

Great Tit – Musvit – 4

Eurasian Treecreeper - Nordlig Træløber – 1

Chaffinch - Bogfinke – 1

Eurasian Siskin - Grønsisken – 2

Redpoll - Lille Gråsisken – 74

Total: 168

People: Simon S. Christiansen, Yehonatan Ben Aroia, Christian Stolz, Judith Kloibhofer, Laia Soler Iglesias, Koen Stork, Ulla Popp, Anders Jørgen Jensen, Erik Christophersen, Morte4n Bentzon Hansen, Thorkild Lund, Flemming Ahlmann, Jens Peter-Lund

Rainy and stormy eastern winds prevented us from ringing this morning. While most of us used the chance to stay long in bed, I couldn’t sleep longer than normal. I decided to check for wind protected places around the Grey Lighthouse with a view towards Kattegat. Many seabirds should be pushed towards land by the storm, I figured... Eventually, I set up the telescope in the office window on the upper floor, from which I was able to see the sea and beach south of the lighthouse. It was a flashy place, warm, wind protected and I even could get fresh coffee when desired. Granted, observations here are not as good as they would be from Worlds End at Grenen, but a couple of red-breasted mergansers (toppet skallesluger) and razorbills (alk) were spotted. Judith joined me for some time as well and studied the closely passing kittiwakes (ride) in their different plumages.

Ulla and Anders had in the meanwhile a slow beginning of the day as well:

Vi stod op til blæst og regn, så formiddagen blev brugt til at se på billeder fra de foregående dage. Efter frokost var vi inde og se udstillingen på fuglestationen, en lærerig oplevelse om fugletræk.

Herefter var det blevet nogenlunde tørvejr, så vi kørte en tur ud til Nordstrand. Her var ikke meget at se, nogle sortænder og et par suler. Så derfor kørte vi til Flagbakken et sted vi ikke havde været før. En fantastisk udsigt men ingen fugle. Derfor kørte vi tilbage til det Grå fyr, og gik en tur ud af traktorsporet og ind til kabeltromlekrattet. Her var vi heldig at se en stor tornskade og fortsatte ud til spidsen af Grenen. Godt vi havde taget varmt tøj på for her var der småfugle på stranden. Vi satte os på stranden og i løbet af den næste halve time fik vi set snespurv hun, bjerglærke og lapværling mellem rørspurvene. En dejlig oplevelse at vende tilbage til Fuglestationen med.

When the weather is so uninviting like today, mostly indoor work is being done at the observatory. So today we were sorting pictures for our archive and checked ringing data. To get some excitement on a day like today, we of course went swimming in the big waves. Too big for Judith, who wasn't able to swim out to the sandbank today.
Yehonatan went on his now usual beach walk trying to find some northerly species and was finally happy to study some roosting snow buntings (snespurv).

Picture by Yehonatan Ben Aroia

On the late afternoon, when the rain had ceased, we also went shopping in town. The wind direction allowed us to “sail” towards Skagen, but fully packed with all the goodies on the way back, we were struggling hard against the wind. Koen's mobile unfortunately dropped out of his pocket while riding the bike and it seems to be now broken beyond repair…

The evening was rather uneventful, Laia prepared an amazing tortilla dinner and we planned the EuroBirdwatch tomorrow!

People: Simon S. Christiansen, Yehonatan Ben Aroia, Christian Stolz, Judith Kloibhofer, Laia Soler Iglesias, Koen Stork, Ulla Popp and Anders Jørgen Jensen.

The morning started when me and Judith woke up early around 5:30 and went to open up the nets in Kabeltromelkrattet and later Simon and Laia joined us for the first round around 7:00. First round was quite busy with around 20 birds, mostly Wrens-Gærdesmutte which was also the most common species that we caught this morning. Around 9 Simon had to leave the ringing for a nice tour he had back in the observatory for 7^th grade kids which was very nice. At this time, me Laia and Judith continued the ringing which was very nice when the sun came out. And in one of the last rounds I saw In the nets one of the birds that I waited a lot of time to see here in the ringing, a Redwing-Vindroussel! I got it out of the net right before it escaped, after we already lost a Jack snipe that escaped from the nets earlier in the morning….

We finished ringing in 12:00 and already at 13:00 our internship girl Stina arrived and we had a very quick lunch and right after went all of the volunteers together with the help of Stina back to Kabeltromelkrattet to cut new net lanes for 2 new nets. When we had so many people it went quite fast and easy and the new nets are up and ready for the next ringing.

After finishing cutting the net lanes and putting up the new nets I had to go and help Michael Ancher putting up the nets in Jennes Sø for the next day, but before that I had some free time, so I had a walk around the ringing area and the beach. I had some nice time with all of the very unique area before I leave in a few days.

A quite fresh and good condition Razorbill-Alk found dead on the beach and brought to the station collection.

Around 17:30 when we all finished our field work and had some rest, we had the evening meeting together and talked about the next days to come and our plans for the rest of the week. Later on we had a nice diner made by our lovely neighbors Ulla & Anders.

After dinner Simon showed us a nice presentation about his time in Ottenby bird  observatory and the amazing work they are doing there and also some amazing pictures of some of the rarities he had there following by wonderful leftover cake the Fleming brought us from the café and some tea. Nice evening!

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Ringing Kabeltromel 63 total birds.

Gransanger - 17

Gærdesmutte - 18

Fuglekonge - 11

Rørspurv - 9

Rødhals - 4

Blåmejse - 3

Vindrossel - 1

Today we split up again. Judith and Koen went for the observations at Verdens Ende 1 where they could see two Shags (Top Skarv) and a Sooty Shearwater (Sodfravet Skråpe) among other cool stuff.

At the same time, Yehonathan, Christian, Henning and I were ringing at Kabeltromelkrattet. The rain stopped the ringing as we had to close the nets but after this, some of us went out to the beach to observe the birds. Some Purple Sandpipers (Sortgrå Ryler), Lapland Bunting (Lapværling) and Reed Buntings (Rørspurve) were found but we had to stop due to the rain again.

When we came back, we found Rita. She was putting up together a hanger in order to hang our clothes. She also brought us some other very nice things. Thank you Rita!

Henning left the Observatory today but he will be back soon to ring with us.

Another important spot of today was the Greater Short-Toed Lark (Korttået Lærke) found late in the afternoon by Søren Skov. Unfortunately, we didn’t manage to see it, but maybe it will stay until tomorrow?

Photo by Søren Skov

Ringmærkning (Kabeltromlekrattet):

Rødhals 5

Sangdrossel 1

Blåmejse 1

Rørspurv 10

Gransanger 5

Gærdesmutte 7

Rørsanger 1

Fuglekonge 5

Jenspurv 1

Total 36

People: Simon S. Christiansen, Yehonatan Ben Aroia, Christian Stolz, Judith Kloibhofer, Koen Stork, Laia Soler Iglesias, Henning Ettrup, Anders Jørgen Jensen, Ulla Popp, Rolf Christensen, Søren Skov.

We’re still with quite many people at the station so we splitted up again. Me, Yehonathan, Henning and Judith went ringing at Sardinkrattet while Laia and Christian were doing field observations at World’s End 3.

Yehonathan and me went up early to open up the nets and Henning and Judith joined later for the first round. The ringing was not very productive but we caught 18 birds including a 2cy+ Dunnock (Jernspurv). We took some photos of it. Most of the Dunnocks we catch here are young birds and therefore it’s good to have a proper look at the older birds we catch to get to grips with ageing. Interesting stuff. We caught a Reed Bunting (Rørspurv) as well, which is not really special to catch here but I took a few pictures to compare with pictures of Reed Buntings I have taken in Romania. It was very nice to see the different between the Black Sea subspecies and ‘our’ subspecies!

Many Reed Buntings (Rørspurv) roosting at Grenen these days

In the meantime, Laia and Christian were experiencing some Gannet (Sule) bonanza! They counted over 1,500 birds. The rest of the count was decent, but they expected to see more Great Skuas with this strong wind. Luckily, three Horned Larks on the tractor track made up for that! They had nice views of the birds as they were foraging around the track.

After lunch, most of us went out and all together we saw some good stuff such as a good count of Reed Buntings (Rørspurv) (even more than yesterday), Purple Sandpiper (Sortgrå Ryle) and again the Black Scoter (Amerikansk Sortand).

In the afternoon, me, Laia and Christian went to check on the garden nets if they were still in good shape. The evening before there was a discussion about how many nets there actually were in the garden. It was kind of a funny thing. There were seven nets in total and luckily they were all in good shape! It was also fun to see the garden for the first time!

Ringing (Sardinkrattet)

Wren – Gærdesmutte – 4
Dunnock - Jernspurv - 2
Robin - Rødhals - 5
Blackbird - Solsort – 2
Song Thrush – Sangdrossel – 1
Blackcap – Munk – 2
Goldcrest – Fuglekonge – 1
Reed Bunting – Rørspurv - 1

People: Yehonatan Ben Aroia, Christian Stolz, Judith Kloibhofer, Laia Soler Iglesias, Koen Stork, Simon S. Christiansen, Henning Ettrup, Ulla Popp, Anders Jørgen Jensen.

Efter nogle dage med mørke skyer og til tider regnfulde morgener var solen atter fremme.

Vi er stadig mange på stationen – nu da der også er kommet gæster i lejligheden. Så vi delte os i et ringmærkerteam og observationshold. Yehonatan, og Laia startede tidligt med at åbne nettene, hvorefter Chris og Henning sluttede sig til ved Kabeltromlekrattet, ligesom Simon kom omkring et par gange. Laia fik sin første ringmærkning på stationen – en Fuglekonge. Koen og Judith tog sig af observationerne, mens der ikke blev mærket ved Jennes Sø.

Det blev en fin start på ringmærkningen, men efterhånden som solen kom højere på himmelen gik det helt i stå. Det blev til i alt 38 fugle – med Rødhals og Gransanger som hyppigste arter. Ingen overraskelser i dag. Eftermiddagen blev brugt til at klargøre 3 nye netbaner ved Kabeltromlekrattet.

Observatørerne havde ikke de store antal, men spredte observationer senere på dagen gav lidt forskellige fugle, bl.a. Lapværling, Stor Tornskade, Dværgmåge, Mosehornugle og Bjerglærke.

Om eftermiddagen skulle Chris, Laia og Judith absolut en tur i det 10 grader varme vand inden de skulle på tur med Simon og Køge Vinterbadeklub i Byfogedskoven inden dagen afsluttedes med en dejlig middag.

Ringing (Kabeltromlekrattet):

Dunnock – Jernspurv – 3
Robin – Rødhals – 12
Song Trush – Sangdrossel – 6
Blackcap – Munk – 2
Chiffchaff – Gransanger – 7
Reed Bunting – Rørspurv – 3
Goldcrest – Fuglekonge – 5

Total: 38

People: Simon S. Christiansen, Yehonatan Ben Aroia, Christian Stolz, Judith Kloibhofer, Koen Stork, Laia Soler Iglesias, Henning Ettrup, Yvonne Feldskov, Anders Jørgen Jensen & Ulla Popp

We are many people at the station at the moment, so we can split up again. Yehonatan, Koen and I went to Jennes Sø to join Michael Ancher in ringing. Simon, Chris, Laia and Henning went to Kabeltromlekrattet to do the ringing there.

In Jennes Sø the ringing went very well. We had 66 birds, the most dominant species was Lesser Redpoll (Lille Gråsisken) with 44 individuals. Yehonatan was very happy about ringing his first Crested Tit (Topmejse). The observations between the rounds were also very good – we saw the Kingfisher (Isfugl) again, one Marsh Harrier (Rørhøg), some Goldfinches (Stillits), a flock of 60 Crossbill (Lille Korsnæb) crossing by and a Wood Mouse (Skovmus) trying to find some food in our backpacks. For Koen it was very interesting to study all the individuals of the redpolls as they show a big variety in the colouration.

Redpoll (Lille Gråsisken) - Picture by Yehonatan Ben Aroia

Crested Tit (Topmejse) - Picture by Yehonatan Ben Aroia

Wood Mouse (Skovmus) - Picture by Yehonatan Ben Aroia

The ringing group in Kabeltromlekrattet was joined by a 11-year old boy, Sander, from town. It was very exciting for him to see the ringing. After they catched a Barred Warbler (Høgesanger), more people came to the ringing side to watch the highlight. They were also very close to catch a Water rail (Vandriske) with the new trammelnets. So it seems like it is on the right place we just need some more luck. In total they caught 49 birds, which is a good number for Kabeltromlekrattet and the dominating species were Robins (Rødhals) and Blue Tits (Blåmejse).

Barred Warbler (Høgesanger) - Picture taken by Henning Ettrup

Back at the station Yehonatan found a nice card from Rita on the table. She gave him regards for the New Year`s Eve that is in Israel today – Thanks Rita! We will celebrate it in the evening with some traditional apples with honey and wine ;).

In the afternoon Chris hold a presentation with the title “The birds of Svalbard”. There we got a nice insight in the most common and interesting bird species in the high arctic. Some of the species we can also see down here in Grenen in Autumn, like the Pink-footed Goose (Kortnæbbet Gås), the Arctic Terns (Havterne) and the Fulmars (Mallemuk). Another mentioned species was the Snow Bunting (Snespurv), which is kind of the “House Sparrow” of Svalbard. If you would like to here more about that species, you are welcome to join his next talk on the 25^th of October at 19 o’clock.

Snow Bunting (Snespurv) nests - Picture taken by Simon S. Christiansen

And now it is time for dinner, it already smells good out of the kitchen :). And afterwards we will have a nice evening together with some games and celebrating the Israeli New Year’s Eve.

Ringing (Jennes Sø & Kabeltromlekrattet):

Wren - Gærdesmutte – 1

Dunnock – Jernspurv – 2

Robin – Rødhals – 16

Song Trush – Sangdrossel – 2

Barred Warbler – Høgesanger – 1

Blackcap – Munk – 3

Chiffchaff – Gransanger – 8

Willow warbler – Løvsanger – 2

Blue Tit – Blåmejse – 20

Redpoll - Lille Gråsisken – 45

Reed Bunting – Rørspurv – 5

Reed warbler – Rørsanger – 1

Goldcrest – Fuglekonge – 5

Crested Tit – Topmejse – 1

Great Tit – Musvit – 3

Total: 115

People: Simon S. Christiansen, Yehonatan Ben Aroia, Christian Stolz, Judith Kloibhofer, Koen Stork, Laia Soler Iglesias, Henning Ettrup, Sander, Erik Christophersen, Jørgen Kabel, Poul Blicher Andersen, Alex Sand Frich, Yvonne Feldskov, Anders Jørgen Jensen & Ulla Popp

Friday night Yehonatan and I went night-catching at Grenen. Although it had rained quite a lot and puddles were on the beach, we didn’t meet any birds for the first hour. But despite that, two other observations were fascinating: First, when arriving at the waters edge, every single of our steps stimulated microscopic algae to exhibit bioluminescence, i.e. emittance of a greenish glow. The species is most likely Noctiluca scintillans, a planktonic dinoflagellate. We tried to take pictures or a video of this phenomena, but without a good camera our attempts were futile. I have tried many times to take pictures of northern lights with my mobile back in Tromsø, but the crappy phone-camera never managed to get them, which now was true regarding the mareel as well.

Shortly after, when I looked to the skies, my jaw dropped. There were actually northern lights visible! Not very strong, but clearly the moving bands of aurora borealis, which I have seen so many times further north. We were getting excited, even though the aurora had basically no colour whatsoever and it was only visible towards the northern part of the sky. We called back to the station and Michael and Koen went out to Grenen parking and managed to see it as well. Unfortunately, nobody took pictures – I’m sure that a good camera would have managed to catch some colour. Later, I looked up the solar activity and disturbance of the earth’s magnetosphere during the time of our observation. The Kp index, which is a way to measure the energy input of the solar wind hitting earth, was up to 5+ on Friday night, indicating a geomagnetic storm. Only at around this value the northern lights can be seen at Skagen, so we got really lucky with being out at that time and having clear skies. To be honest, I would have not guessed that I would see the northern lights once more this year.

After all the excitement due to the special light from below and above, we managed to catch a first year red knot (islandsk ryle) at the tip of Grenen, too!

The next morning, the observatory’s team split up in two groups to ring in both Jenne’s Sø and Kabeltrommelkrattet. Henning, Michael, Simon, Judith and I went to Kabeltrommelkrattet after the rain in the morning stopped and were happy to not get wet afterwards. The ringing itself was average, but in the meanwhile to hen harriers (blå kærhøg) and at least one calling penduline tit (pungmejse) were indeed fine birds to observe.

Michael, Yehonatan, Koen and Laia unfortunately got really wet at Jenne’s Sø and had to come back to the station to switch into dry clothes. After the rain stopped, they however got many birds into their nets – mainly lesser redpolls (lille gråsisken), which were attracted by their own calls played from speakers.

Laia also found some commom toads (skrubtudse), which she was really happy about.

On the afternoon, Rita came by and provided us with apples, pomegranate, honey and chocolate in anticipation of the the next day Jewish New Year celebration. Yehonatan told us that it is a tradition to eat fish heads on that day, but we will see if that is going to happen. Apples, pomegranate and honey seems to be the better (and also traditional) alternative.

The afternoon was dominated by indoor work – Laia, Yehonatan and Judith were working on our radar, while Koen and I developed the protocol for night recordings further. I also sat down to prepare my talk about Svalbards avifauna for the next day.

Ringing (Kabeltrommelkrattet + Jennes Sø):                                       

Meadow Pipit – Engpiber – 1
Eurasian Blue Tit – Blåmejse – 13              
Eurasian Blackcap – Munk – 3
Great Tit – Musvit – 1
Common Chiffchaff – Gransanger – 4
Goldcrest – Fuglekonge – 4       
Eurasian Wren – Gærdesmutte – 4
Dunnock – Jernspurv – 3
European Robin – Rødhals – 5
Common Reed Bunting – Rørspurv – 3                                 
Common Blackbird – Solsort – 1              
Song Thrush – Sangdrossel – 1
Common Chaffinch – Bogfinke – 1
Eurasian Siskin – Grønsisken – 3              
Lesser Redpoll – Lille Gråsisken – 49

Total: 96

People: Yehonatan Ben Aroia, Christian Stolz, Judith Kloibhofer, Laia Soler Iglesias, Koen Stork, Simon S. Christiansen, Michael Fink, Michael Anker, Henning Ettrup, Rita Pate

Morgensobservationer og ringmærkning gik helt i vasken på grund af regn tilsat en kuling fra sydøst.

Tiden blev brugt på diverse indendørssysler indtil vinden ved frokosttid var aftaget til under 10 sekundmeter, og så var det ud.. Der var tydeligt flere småfugle i krattene og midt i regnen blev der fundet en Hvidbrynet Løvsanger i Ellekrattet nedenfor Klitbo, sammen med Fuglekonger, Broget og Grå Fluesnapper. Dagens regn medførte at strandsøen på ydersiden af klitten genopstod fra Nordstranden og helt ud mod Grenen.

Vinterdragts-Ride på Stranden

Yehonathan og Simon tog til området ved Buttervej efter regnen stoppede

Om eftermiddagen underviste Simon i forskellige racer af Gråsiskner samt i fældningsstrategierne arrested & suspended moult inden han kastede sig ud i tilberedelsen af Nationalretten.. ad libitum.

I det nu fine sene eftermiddagsvejr, blev den Amerikanske Sortand set flot fra stranden mellem Grenen og Sælbunkeren – og et kort øjeblik var der en ung Mellemkjove samme sted.

Vi er nu 8 personer på stationen. Folk: Laia Soler Iglesias, Judith Kloibhofer, Christian Stolz, Yehonatan Ben Aroia, Koen Stork, Simon S. Christiansen, Michael Fink og Henning Ettrup som ankom sidst på eftermiddagen.