No wind, one shearwater

The first ones who got up today were Hanelie, Sarah, Rose and Louise, who started their day at Kabeltrommeln for ringing. They enjoyed this calm day a lot, and they caught a total of 22 birds today, so more than the days before. A very beautiful Coal Tit (Sortmejse) was caught in the last round, and all were happy about this nice bird. They were also happy to see the Adder (Hugorm) again, who is at the same place every day.

Coal Tit (Sortmejse) at KAB

Cora, Simon, Markus and I started our day a bit later for the migration count at World's End 3. There was not so much migration today, but we also enjoyed the day here completely. Even though the numbers were rather low today compared to the previous days, we had very nice species. In the second hour, Simon Jr. spotted a Manx Shearwater (Almindelig Skråpe), which was quite far out, but we all managed to see it. Especially for Cora this was the best bird of the day, because that was a new species for her congratulations! She mentioned directly after we saw the bird that we can look forward to something baked! What she baked, you’ll find out when you continue reading.
The other highlights of the morning obs were one Great Skua (Storkjove) and one Temminck’s Stint (Temmincksryle), which flew over us twice!

After this successful ringing and migration count morning, we all headed back to the station to have something to eat or to go to bed for a short, or sometimes when needed, longer nap. Cora, Simon Jr. and I decided to open the garden net, and by the second net check we recaptured a Whitethroat (Tornsanger), which Simon Jr. and I had caught two weeks ago at 1 AM by nightcatching.
Because the weather was so good, we played some ball games in the Lighthouse Garden in the afternoon and afterwards we went for a swim, which was very refreshing!

flexible datawork in the Lighthouse garden

In the late afternoon, Simon Jr., Sarah, Louise, Markus and Rose went to town to taste some Danish beers in a bar, and they had nice talks about everything there. Meanwhile, Cora started to bake a delicious milk bread at the station, which we can eat the next day at Kabeltrommeln or World's End 3.
After the others came back from their town trip, Markus started cooking, and we had a lovely dinner.
But the day was still not at its end. Simon, Cora and I changed the net size of the Nightjar net in the Old Lighthouse Garden and opened it afterwards.
Unfortunately, we didn’t catch a Nightjar today, but we will try again the next days. 

Here is now a small game, created by Simon Jr:

Since Raptors have a hard time on migration over Skagen, here is a small game:

You are a Pallid Harrier (Steppehøg) and you try to migrate without flying against Det Grå Fyr. Good luck!

KAB ringing totals:

Kærsanger 3

Løvsanger 3

Gærdesanger 1

Sortmejse 1

Tornsanger 9

Munk 2

Bogfinke 1

Gransanger 2

Total: 22

Highlight of the observations:

Manx Shearwater (Almindeling Skråpe)

Great Skua (Storkjove)

Temmincks Stint (Temmincksryle)

Today´s observations of observers in the area can be seen here.

People: Rosemary Frikke, Markus Kemp Clément, Simon Kiesé, Louise Buksti-Ladefoged, Sarah Partrige, Mio Brix, Cora Köberle, Hanelie Sidhu