Snow Bunting treats

This morning’s weather was promising, with a medium cloud coverage and low wind, so our hopes were up for a beautiful migration morning out at Grenen. Unfortunately, despite the supposedly great conditions, the whole morning was really slow migration wise, both for passerines, sea birds as well as raptors. 

As we mentioned in a couple of previous blog entries, we have been keeping an eye on a flock of Snow Buntings (Snespurv) and have been bringing them some seeds out at Grenen, and today they showed up in big numbers! We counted a flock of 31 birds, with a little group of 7 birds migrating towards the South West direction. 

Tomorrow the weather is supposed to be relatively bad, so we decided to postpone our first catching test for the little Snow buntings (Snespurv), and will try in the coming days when the weather permits a safe catching session. 

Litte flock of Snow Buntings (Snespurv) eating seeds

After a little lunch and relaxation, some of us went food shopping and some others on a nice walk around the lighthouse since the sun decided to show. Julian made pancakes which everybody really enjoyed!

View of Grenen on afternoon walk 

Highlights of today: 

2 black throated divers (Sortstrubet Lom)

1 black guillemot (Tejst)

31 snow buntings (Snespurv)

 Link to today’s observations in DOFbasen from observers in the area

People: Alvin Johansson, János Schadl, Alix Bortolussi, Julian Helbig, Simon S. Christiansen.