An awesome last day

Rose and Sarah blitzed out to Kabeltrommeln to open the nets today. At sunrise Simon Jr. and I joined them. Because of the wind we did not open all nets, but we got a nice variety of species today. To our surprise, we caught 4 very cute Goldcrests (Fuglekonge) today and on our last round we caught a nice Pied Flycatcher (Broget Fluesnapper). We also saw the young Goshawk (Duehøg) again and after we ringed the last bird a Temminck's Stint (Temmincksryle) flew over us. 

cute Goldcrest (Fuglekonge)

The Observation Team today, consisting of Cora, Markus, Louise and Knud, had to brave the strong wind at the beginning of the day. A bit later the wind slowed down and they briefly saw a first calendar year Mediterranean Gull (Sorthovedet måge) and some close Fulmars (Mallemuk).

After we all headed back, all except for Rose, Sarah and me had a nap directly or after lunch. Rose and Sarah went for their daily swim and meanwhile I showed my family, who were here today for a small break before they’ll continue their way to Sweden, the station, the Lighthouse and the area a bit, and we ate hotdogs at the parking place. Afterwards I went back to the station and started to prepare all my stuff, so that I have time in the evening and night to do some nightcatching and spend the last hours with all the nice volunteers I met here. With time all other volunteers got up from their nap and we did data entry. Cora and Simon cleaned the apartment, before we get a new guest tomorrow. In the late afternoon Simon Sr. arrived at the station, and we had the evening meeting to plan the next days. After that Simon Jr. and Sarah sewed a bird net and Cora prepared a delicious dinner.

sewing a net in the lighthouse garden

In the evening, two hours before sunset, we decided to open the nets at Kabeltrommeln again and tried to catch wagtails and swallows. Unfortunately we didn’t succeed but I was still motivated to catch something, therefore we left the nets open the whole night and I controlled the nets, with the hope to catch Water Rails (Vandrikse). But also the Water Rails didn’t want to come in our nets. But it was still a nice night.
Now its time for me to say goodbye to Skagen, but only for this year! I’ll come again next year. Once Skagen, always Skagen! I look back to three wonderful weeks here with many highlights: Storm Petrel catching and nightcatching in general, Worlds End migration count, Kabeltrommeln ringing and of course the awesome station team, with whom I have experienced so many great things! And with that another short stay for me at one of the best places in the world comes to an end.
Vi ses i 2026!

Highlights Observations:

1K Mediterranean Gull (Sorthovedet måge)

Temminck's Stint (Temmincksryle)

1K Goshawk (Duehøg)

Today’s observations by observers in the area of Skagen typed into DOFbasen can be found here

Ringing Kabeltromlen:

Gransanger 1

Fuglekonge 4