Two Isloms and a Swim

The weather was rather grey again, but since it was dry, Amira, János and I went for a walk to Grenen this morning. Shortly after arriving at World's End 3, we saw a large diver flying towards us. When it was close enough, we could all see that it was a Great Northern Diver (Islom)! It was most likely the individual that Knud had seen resting at Nordstrand a few minutes earlier (whose Zello message we only noticed after the bird had already flown past us). Shortly afterwards, Knud reported another Islom from Nordstrand, which arrived shortly afterwards at Grenen and landed on the water. We tried to get closer and went down to the beach. Unfortunately, we only saw it flying away, but we also spotted a Black-throated Diver (Sortstrubet Lom) migrating northwest. We also checked the gulls and at least spotted one Caspian Gull (Kaspisk Måge) and some unusual dark coloured Herring gulls (Sølvmåge).


Birding at Grenen

On the way back along the Sandormen Track, we observed two Hen Harriers (Blå Kærhøg) fighting with each other! At least one of them was the one with missing feathers in its wing, that had been in the area for a long time now. Meanwhile, Miles was birding in the Industrial Area. A late Blackcap (Munk) was quite a good highlight there!

At noon, we started with doing some cleaning. Today, we worked on the lab and the bicycles. Especially for the latter, it was really needed to do this. Fortunately, this didn't take forever, so Amira, János and I decided to look at gulls and ducks in the harbour.


Scanning the Eiders (Ederfugl) in the harbour

Afterwards, we went to the bakery, where Miles and Lise joined us. We had some hot drinks and something to eat. It was very hyggeligt there!

As it was very warm in the bakery, János, Amira and I had to cool off in the sea as soon as we were back at the station. This swim was really refreshing!

In the evening Lise's sister Frey arrived, Miles prepared a delicious dinner and Amira held her presentation about conservation of Bonelli's Eagles (Høgeørn)!

Standard ringing finished

Link to today’s observations from the area.

People: Miles Scheuering, János Schadl, Florian Hatt, Amira Nuseibeh, Lise Mastrup and our guest Frey Mastrup