We saw the Spækhuggers again!

Today Rasmus and I were supported in counting the birds from Worlds End 3 by Jørgen Hulbæk. When we just started the counting we heard a Zello message from Simon at Kabeltrommeln. They had caught a Ring Ouzel (Ringdrossel)! So I quickly biked over to Kabeltrommeln to see this beautiful bird in hand. 

Ring Ouzel (Ringdrossel) 2k Male

A bit later there was another Zello about Orcas (Spækhugger) coming just in our direction. Just a few minutes later those fantastic animals appeared right in front of us. It was really nice to observe them. Moreover we saw six Arctic Skuas  (Almindelig Kjove) and also a Black-throated Diver (Sortstrubet Lom) this morning. In the last minutes of our count also the well-known 3K Glaucous Gull (Gråmage) passed by. I'm curious to see how long it will stay here in Skagen.

The ringers had not too many birds today but some interesting ones. Apart from the  Ring Ouzel (Ringdrossel) I already mentioned they caught a Chiffchaff (Gransanger) which was ringed somewhere in France.

In the afternoon Andrew and I went to the Cormorant lake to check the nets at our ringing site over there so they are ready to be opened on thursday. Later we also counted the Cormorants and their nests. While we were there Simon went to the horsfields to find some nice birds. There he was surprised by three very early Bee-eaters (Biæder). He even managed to take some recordings of their calls which is very cool.

link to the recording of the  Bee-eater (Biæder) calls

After he picked us up at the Cormorant lake we tried to find them again but they were already gone.

In the evening our new guest Søren arrived and also Lucas came back again.

Ringing (Kabeltromlen):

Gransanger 4

Rødhals  1

Løvsanger 2

Gærdesanger 1

Munk 2

Lille Dompap 1

Ringdrossel 1

Solsort 1

Total: 13

Highlights from the observations: 

Orcas (Spækhugger) 4

Arctic Skua (Almindelig Kjove) 6

Glaucous Gull (Gråmage) 1

Bee-eater (Biæder) 3

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, Lucas Corneliussen, Andrew Jacobs, ??Jørgen Hulbæk and our guest Søren.