UK Chiffchaff

The morning was rather calm but productive with a small but steady amount of birds per round. Since the standardized migration count was over, we all went to Kabeltromlen or had a sleep in. The best bird of the morning was a Chiffchaff (Gransanger) with an UK ring, but since these rings are literally used everywhere we will need to wait a bit to finde out where it was comming from.

Chiffchaff (Gransanger)

After the ringing Alvin spend some time with cleaning and laundary and Hannah went for a shopping trip. Alvin also found that the chicks of the Great Tit (Musvit) breeding pair in our garden have fletched, so he set up the gardennet to try and catch them. This can be very interessting, as you exactly know who the parents are.

Beside this, there was not much going on birdwise today in Skagen. Both Aalvin and I went for a short seawatch and outside of the lighthouse were he saw two Razorbills (Alk) and two Kittywakes (Ride) and I later had a Black Guillemot (Tejst) resting close to the beach.

Highlights from the observations:
Black Guillemot (Tejst) - 1

Ringing (Kabeltromlen)
Gransanger - 1
Gærdesmutte - 1
Jernspurv - 1
Kærsanger - 1
Rørsanger - 2
Munk - 9
Tornsanger - 1
Rørspurv - 1
Total: 17

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

Summary of today's raptor migration in DOFbasen

People: Alvin Johansson, János Schadl, Julian Helbig, Hannah, Lars Bo