Cleaning and window skuas

Today was the big cleaning day around the station where we deep cleaned the station using up the majority of the day.
Hanelie had 43 species of moths in the traps today with new for the season including Soothsayer Dart, Toadflax Brocade Moth, Bordered Gothic, Rhodophaea Formosa, Bilberry Tortrix and several other species.
Later I did some window seawatch pointing the scope out towards the tip where some Arctic Skuas ended up flying past.
Cora and I went out late in the evening to see some more birds along the beach where a male Velvet Scoter was floating just offshore and a few more Arctic Skuas flew past.
As we headed back in we could see the storm starting to come in, it’s supposed to get very windy overnight.

Cleaning the fridge photo Hanelie Sidhu

Peppered Moth photo Hanelie Sidhu

Highlights
Arctic Skua 6 (Almindelig Kjove)
Velvet Scoter 1 (Fløjsand)

Observations in the area on DOFbasen today

People: Cora Köberle, Hanelie Sidhu, Andrew Jacobs, Simon Sigaard Christiansen