Egyptian geese and dinner at restaurant Blink

Today I (Sverre) happily joined the observation post at worlds end three with Alvin and Dylan. It was slightly windy from southwest. Not a lot of migration going on today, but we did have a nice variety of species. I Particularly enjoyed some migrating black gullemots (Tejst), a bunch of fishing gannets (Sule) and two Egyptian geese (Nilgås) flying straight overhead! Jesper and Mette joined us for a couple of hours at worlds end 3, I get the feeling that they also enjoyed a good look of the gannets in the morning sun.

- Nilgæs above our heads

The ringing team, consisting of Juian and János, had a fair 36 birds today. Mostly birds from the sylvia family like blackcap (munk), lots of lesser whitethroats (gærdesanger) and common whitethroats (tornsanger). Their top bird of the day was a recap of a reed warbler (rørsanger) ringed at skarvsøen in august 2023. Nice to see that it is still around. During the ringing Simon was kind enough to swing by and help with the ringing, and he even brought cake. Peter Harris and co also visited the ringers at kabeltromlen.

In the evening all of us were invited for dinner by the kind owners of restaurant blink. Heine and Christel had invited the entire volunteer staff, Simon, Simons dad, Jens from the nature agency, Mette and Jesper and the team from the café for a wonderful dinner. We had a lovely meal and were treated to the best rumballs of my life for dessert. It was a pleasure dining with everyone from the lighthouse area. Thanks a lot for hosting us:)

-Family dinner at restaurant Blink

Observation highlights:

 Fjeldvåge – 1

Almindelig Kjove – 1

Tejst – 4

Nilgås - 2

Ringing totals (Kabeltromlen):

Løvsanger – 1

Gransanger – 2

Fuglekonge – 2

Gærdesanger - 13

Tornsanger – 5

Munk – 8

Gærdesmutte – 1

Solsort – 1

Rødhals – 2

Jernspurv - 1

Total: 36

Ringing totals (Fyrhavn):

Tornsanger - 1

Total: 1

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

People: Alvin Johansson, János Schadl, Julian Helbig, Dylan Daunt, Simon S. Christiansen, Sverre Dahl Porsgaard, Jesper & Mette