A quiet sunny day

Today Mio, Rasmus, Hans and I went out to Nortstrand to do the migration count. But there was not much migration going when we arrived there at 5:45. So we had time to enjoy the beautiful sunrise. The migration on the sea was very slow today compared to the past days. But there were many Kestrels (Tårnfalk) migrating. We had 17 of them this morning. 

amazing sunrise

Because migration was so slow this morning Mio and Rasmus went to Skarvsøen in the third hour to count the Cormorants (Skarv). Now there are already 69 occupied nests. 

Also ringing was a bit slow this morning. They rang 8 birds in total. But the ringers were still very busy because they used the time to retie all the nets and cut annoying twigs out of the netlanes.  So now we have well tied and free nets again. They also had some nice birds flying over Kabeltromelen, like some nice Thrushes, some Pink-Footed Geese (Kortnæbbet Gås) and they also saw the Glaucous Gull (Gråmage) again.

Pink-Footed Geese (Kortnæbbet Gås)

When we came back to the station Hans went out to Flagbakken again to have a nice raptor midday. The rest of us stayed back to chill a bit. But then we heard on Zello that there were some nice birds like a Woodwarbler (Skovsanger), a Wryneck (Vendehals) and two Pied Flycatchers (Broget Fluesnapper) seen in Batteryskov. So we went there and tried to find them. We could find the Wood Warbler (Skovsanger), it was also singing a bit which was very nice.                                       Later Rasmus went out again, trying to find a Red-Rumped Swallow (Rødrygget Svale). He saw many Swallows but not the one he was looking for. But we are confident that we will find one at some point.

In the evening we unfortunately had to say goodbye to Mio because he had to go back to Berlin because the school starts on Monday again.

Ringing (Kabeltromlen):

Gransanger 3

Rødhals  3

Rørspurv 2

Total: 8

Highlights from the observations: 

first Wood Warbler (Skovsanger) 1

Hen Harrier (Blå Kærhøg) 20

Kestrel (Tårnfalk) 30 

Glaucous Gull (Gråmage) 1

Raptor migration in Skagen today

Today’s observations in Dofbasen from observers in the area

People: Rasmus Matthiesen-Juhl, Cora Köberle, Tue Baaner, Simon Sigaard Christiansen, Mio Brix, Lucas Corneliussen, Andrew Jacobs and our guest Hans.