At the end of the rainbow there is a Manx Shearwater

Today Dylan and Alvin were at the migration count, and János, Olga, and Julian were at the ringing accompanied by Simon. 

The sea migration was comparably slow today, numberwise. Although some challenging weather with rain and wind, we had a good morning with a beautiful rainbow. 

Rainbow seen from Sandklit

There was a Turtle Dove (Turteldue) seen at Grenen which Dylan got a brief glimpse of as it flew away. A few Great Northern Divers (Islom) passed close as they flew northwest, basically overhead.

In the last minutes of the standardized count, a Manx Shearwater (Almindelig Skråpe) was called out from Nordstrand flying east, which meant it would pass us at Sandklit within a minute or two. And it did. Very cool to see the difference in flight style compared to all the Fulmars (Mallemuk) we have seen in the past days.

The ringing was slow in the first hours with some rain showers, but picked up later in the morning. A lot of people from Dof Ung were also there and got to see some cool birds. In one round they caught three Garden Warblers (Havesanger)

János with a Reed Warbler (Rørsanger)

For most of us, the afternoon was spent taking long naps and cleaning the station.

Rikke Jakobsen: our new apartment guest, also arrived today and will be staying with us for the rest of the week.

Highlights from the observations:
Manx Shearwater (Almindelig Skråpe) - 1
Great Northern Diver (Islom) - 3
Turtle Dove (Turteldue) 1

Ringing (Jenne sø):
Gransanger - 1
Gærdesanger - 2
Bogfinke - 1
Tornsanger - 1
Total: 5

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

People: Alvin Johansson, János Schadl, Julian Helbig, Dylan Daunt, Olga Fernández Enríquez, Simon S. Christiansen, Rikke Jakobsen