My first diary post of 2019

I was the first one up in the morning and after a bowl of yogurt made my way out to Grenen for a migration watch with Knud. There were decent numbers of birds, namely seabirds and wildfowl, moving in the first couple of hours of light but by 4 hours most of the visible migration had dried up. Highlights from the 4 hour watch included 8 Taiga Bean Geese which headed straight for Sweden and a really impressive flock of 27 Raven which turned back. Peter decided to watch for raptors from the fuglestation garden for an hour before lunchtime after he had finished some computer work and had a nice flock of 7 Common Buzzard, a Rough-legged Buzzard, 2 Sparrowhawk and a Kestrel.

In the afternoon whilst I was doing some DOFbasen Charlotte interviewed Peter for a questionnaire about birders she is making and Simon went into town to buy some ingredients for the quiches I was going to cook in the evening. Whilst the quiches were in the oven Knud came over and showed Peter and I the ins and outs of DOFbasen so that we could input our data properly.

 Apparently the quiches were good!

People: Dante Shepherd, Peter Denyer, Simon S. Christiansen, Charlotte Mathiassen, Knud Pedersen

A vegetarian and a bacon quiche I made, which went down very well! 

Knud, Peter and I goign through DOFbasen data entry