Ends and Beginnings

Today, we sadly had to say farewell to Barbara who is going back to the Faroe Islands after a stay at Skagen Fuglestation that felt way too short. We very much enjoyed observing and ringing with her, and hearing about birding on the Faroe Islands (in an Australian accent!).

But with endings come new beginnings, and we are now very excited to welcome Oscar to the station!

At ringing at Kabeltromlen, Gabriel, Sarah, Barbara and I were again joined by Morten, who was part of the team that opened Skagen Fuglestation back in 2017. It was a pleasure to ring with him and fun to hear some stories from the old days of the station.

The highligts in the ringing included another Common Snipe (Dobbeltbekkasin) and no less than 18 Blackcaps (Munk).

Dobbeltbekkasin

Look at that beautiful tail (Dobbeltbekkasin)

Janna and Florian had a good morning doing migration count at Worlds End 3 with Arctic Skua (Almindelig Kjove) in dark morph, female-coloured Hen Harrier (Blå Kærhøg), Merlin (Dværgfalk), Black-throated Diver (Sortstrubet Lom) and Black guillemot (Tejst). An interesting sight was a Cuckoo (Gøg) that flew with the gulls and headed out for the sea, but then changed its mind in the last second and went back inland.
The observers stayed out an extra hour to see if they could spot other cool species and actually heard a Wood Sandpiper (Tinksmed)!

Janna and Florian scanning the waves at World’s End 3

Back at the station Janna prepared a lovely lunch for us, and just as we finished eating, we heard the message on Zello: There is a Hoopoe (Hærfugl) in town, not far from us! Gabriel and Florian went out to look for it with some of the locals, but unfortunately it wasn’t spotted again. Fingers crossed it heads our way tomorrow.

Tomorrow looks too windy for ringing, so we’re looking forward to spending the morning doing migration counts together.

Ciao!

Ringing totals Kabeltromlen

Munk: 18
Rødhals: 7
Gransanger: 7
Sortmejse: 4
Gærdesanger: 3
Rødstjert: 3
Jernspurv: 2
Dobbeltbekkasin: 1
Rørspurv: 1
Tornsanger: 1
Blåmejse: 1
Kærsanger: 1
Løvsanger: 1
Total: 50

Highlights from World’s End 3:

Almindelig Kjove
Blå Kærhøg
Dværgfalk
Sortstrubet Lom
Tejst
Gøg

Obervations from the area can be found here.

People: Oscar, Barbara Leone, Gabriel Axelsson, Florian Hatt, Selina Veng, Janna Ouedraogo, Sarah Partridge, Morten Jenrich Hansen.