Rainy morning

The weather forecast did not look promising for ringing and observation today. So we decided to sleep in today, which everyone really enjoyed. After this nice start, we didn't want to just hang around being lazy, but wanted to do some useful work. So we checked all the remaining ringing sheets from the previous days for mistakes.
Since we couldn't be at World's End 3 in the cold this morning, Miles and I decided to go out into the cold in the afternoon. We went to Frederikshavn to search for the long-staying Kentish plover (Hvidbrystet Præstekrave). When we arrived, we heard from another birder that many of the waders present had just been flushed far to the north by a dog. Then the waiting began until he would return. Even without the plover, birding was fun there. The longer we waited, the more birds arrived. About 150 Dunlins (Almindelig Ryle), 35 Redshanks (Rødben), 30 Oystercatchers (Strandskade) and some Shore Larks (Bjerglærke) were nice to see. Even though the cold wind made us feel really cold, we stayed there for a long time. Unfortunately, the Kentish plover did not reappear, so we returned to Skagen without having seen it.


Searching the Kentish Plover (Hvidbrystet Præstekrave) in Frederikshavn

Knud had also been outside in the afternoon for some ‘gulling’ at Grenen. He was successful and managed to find a total of seven Caspian Gulls (Kaspisk Måge)! However, the Baltic lesser black-backed gull (Baltisk Sildemåge) seemed to have disappeared.
Miles used the evening to finish an exciting graphic for our big ringing day on 6 October. It shows how many individuals of the different species were ringed at what time of the day. At the same time, Amira prepared a delicious dinner for us and we listened to german banger songs!



No ringing today

Highlights from the observation
Kaspisk Måge (Caspian Gull) 7

Today's observations from the area can be seen here.

People: Mara Glane, Florian Hatt, Amira Nuseibeh, Miles Scheuering, Lise Mastrup, Simon S. Christiansen and our guests Lars and Lone