Slow and windy day

Julian and I decided to join János on the ringing today, hoping it to be as good for the ringing as it was yesterday, with some interesting species. Unfortunately, we were unlucky. As soon as we left the station, we realized that it was quite windy. We started to open the nets, but the strong wind made them ballon too much, so we had to close them again and cancel the ringing for today. A bit upset, Julian and I went back home to have some more sleep, while János joined Dylan at the migration counting. After a while, he went for a walk for birdwatching and took back the recorder he had left for recording bird songs. Also, Annette and Ole joined the migration after seeing that nobody was at Kabeltromlen today. It was quite a slow day, but they could see some interesting species, like an Arctic skua (Almindelig Kjov), an Ortolan bunting (Hortulan) flying and a blue morph of a Fulmar (Mallemuk).

Spring day in Skagen

When Julian woke up, he cooked blueberry pancakes for all of us. Then, he fixed two bikes that needed some improvements and had some time to draw.

In the afternoon, Dylan did a guided tour to some people from the US. Among other species, they could see a Black Kite (Sort Glente), a Spotted Flycatcher (Grå Fluesnapper) and some Cranes (Trane).

Glanville Fritillary (Okkergul pletvinge), seen by Dylan

Annette and Ole took a walk to Grenen and could hear an Icterine Warbler (Gulbug), saw Wagtails (Vipstjert), Gulls (Måge), Ringed Plovers (Stor Præstekrave), Dunlins (Almindelig ryle), Barnacle geese (Bramgås). Later, they went birdwatching with Simon and saw a male, a female and a young Stonechat (Sortstrubet bynkefugl). János did also some birdwatching and put his recorder again. On the other hand, I used the afternoon to visit the bunker museum and walk on the beach.

Lighthouse from the beach

In the evening, Alvin arrived after spending one week in Blåvand. Welcome back!

Summary of today's raptor migration in DOFbasen