Quiet skies, busy seas

This morning the weather was good, apart from one big wave of rain. Gustav, Louis-Marie, Knud, Sarah and I, all went to the migration count at World’s End III. The migration count went as the last few days. The first hours were nice, with a decent migration of kittiwakes (ride), razorbills (alk) and a good amount of red-throated divers (rødstrubet lom). Halfway through the first hour Knud spotted a great skua (storkjove) flying northwest from Kattegat. The skua came really close, which resulted in some really nice views.

The great skua landed a couple of times, when we saw it. It even chased a gull for a fish!

An hour later Knud found a white-billed diver (hvidnæbbet lom) flying quite close to us. It was a good observation and a lifer for Gustav and I. The last couple of hours were way slower than the first two, with very few birds showing up.

Mio, Rosie, Simon, Christina and Lisa were at Kabeltromlen where it again was somewhat of a slow morning, with the exception of them catching a total of 8 waxwings, seven of them at the same time! Waxwings were one of Lisa’s dream birds to ring, so she was really exited to get to ring one again.

A group photo of the ringers with each of their cute little waxwings

In the afternoon Gustav and I biked out to Nordstrand in hopes of finding some birds in the bushes. We walked around in Nedermose but unfortunately there were almost no birds at all, with a couple of goldcrests (fuglekonge) being the highlight. We also saw nine snow buntings (snespurv) on the beach.

In the evening Lisa brought us “Olaf-cake”, a winter version of Kaj-kage, thanks a lot to Lisa, it was very good!

Beautiful waxwing with its impressive crest!

Highlights from World's End 3

Hvidnæbbet lom 1

Sortstrubet lom 1

Storkjove 1

Tejst 2

Stor tornskade 1

Ringing Kabeltromlen

Silkehale 8

Gærdesmutte 1

Vindrossel 1

Bogfinke 1

Dompap 3

Link to today’s observations in the Dofbasen from observers in the area.

People: Mio Brix, Simon Sigaard Christiansen, Lisa Vergin, Sarah Partridge, Louis-Marie Gourmelon, Christina Liu, Rosie Berkin, Saxe Lind Christiansen, Gustav Juel and Knud Pedersen