Lesser Spotted Eagles (and not much else to tell)

Seán and Olga went to the migration count in the morning. Almost the very first bird they saw was a Great Skua (Storkjove). After one hour, they were accompanied by Dylan. In the meantime, I was ringing at Kabeltromlen with János, where we had better conditions compared to the previous days: The winds have dropped, and we were able to open all nets except three, in which we caught a decent amount of birds over the course of the five standard hours. After the first couple of hours, Mette from the lighthouse joined us, she had planned this for a long time already. She went on one of the rounds with me while János was napping in the sun, and also got to ring some of the birds. Good job there! As another highlight of the morning (since there wasn’t so much else), we’ve heard one of the numerous rather uncommon call types Red Crossbills (Lille Korsnæb) can make on migration – something mainly János could appreciate.

Walking the rounds at KAB.

After having lunch with us back at the station, Seán said goodbye to us after these two short but nice days. He left earlier than planned, to visit Naturmødet, a big nature event in Hirtshals, where also Simon held his talk about “Seabirds Under Pressure (SUPRE)”. Our guests Annette and Ole went there too as well as many others. They had a very interesting time there with many informative presentations, inspiring and at times heated discussions and good food.

Simon's talk at Naturmødet in Hirtshals.

Up here at the station, the rest of us took a good nap before continuing with the tasks for the day. During the afternoon, three Lesser Spotted Eagles (Lille Skrigeørn) were seen in the area, János and Dylan went out and got to see two of them flying directly over the lighthouse. Yet, I couldn’t observe them unfortunately, because I was in an online interview in that moment. Hopefully there’ll come more the next days.

One of the Lesser Spotted Eagles (Lille Skrigeørn).

Olga went for a little trip into town and visited the art museum.
We are all looking forward to the upcoming days, the weather forecast looks quite promising.

People: János Schadl, Julian Helbig, Dylan Daunt, Olga Fernández Enríquez, Simon S. Christiansen, Ole & Annette