It Smells Delicious!

Today there were strong southwesterly winds, over 10 m/s. Because of that we didn’t do any ringing, and instead the whole volunteer team did migration counts from World’s End III. Knud was there too for the first few hours. Migration was rather slow today, not much movement overall. Even the passerines were scarce in the wind. Still, we did spot two migrating Whooper Swans (Sangsvane) in the distance, which was our first of the season. There was also good movement of alcids, and besides the Razorbills (Alk) and Guillemots (Lomvie), several Black Guillemots (Tejst) were on the move as well, which was nice.

From this morning's migration count at World's End III

An hour before the standardised migration count was finished, Sarah and Amira left to bike to Jennes Sø, where Michael Ancher was ringing today.

After the standardised count, Florian, Miles and I (Gabriel) searched through the sea buckthorn bushes next to World’s End III, trying to locate an alternative “Tick Bunting” that might have been heard during the count. Unfortunately, nothing more exciting than a few Reed Buntings (Rørspurver) sheltering in the buckthorn turned up. A small flock of migrating Greater White-fronted Geese (Blisgæs) was also noted shortly after the day’s count, another first of the season for us.

Sea Aster (Strandaster)

After lunch, Sarah, Amira and Miles went with Simon into Skagen By, where they recycled the bottles and cans from the station. With the deposit money they bought a cake, which they brought back for us. After running some more errands in Skagen, Sarah, Miles and Simon did some birding there, while Amira took the chance to visit the local bathhouse and go down the waterslide.

This evening Otto (this week’s guest) came by with a gift of goodies he had bought for us. Tusind tak Otto!

Right now Sarah is cooking a “Storm Soup” with red lentils. Smells delicious!!!