Rising winds but soaring falcons.

Ringing today was cancelled after waking up at 4am to find the winds were too strong to set up the nets. There was one bird ringed however in the form of goosander caught by Esben late last night!!

About 09:00 a red-footed falcon surfaced around the lighthouse giving me my first views of this species ever and only on the second day of my arrival. Throughout the day there was a trickling of sandwich terns along the coast and a young family of red backed shrikes in the dunes.

Later in the afternoon about 16:00 me and Martin visited Jerup Strand which proved to be very fruitful with higlights as 2 Red-footed falcons (Aftenfalk) and 3Spoonbills (Skestork) and a lot of waders.

And 9 species of waders including sanderling (sanløbar), spotted redshark (sortlire) and bar-tailed godwit (lille kobbersneppe).

Goosander (Stor Skallesluger)