It was still quite windy this morning, so Jule and Simon, who did the ringing today, left a bit later to open the nets. Because of that wind there were not many birds flying into the nets, but one of the birds they caught was a Pied Flycatcher (Broget Fluesnapper) which is always a really nice bird to have in hand. In the end of the morning the wind had slowed down and they got some more birds in the nets. 

Still they had a good morning because they got to see some very nice birds flying out on the sea. These nice birds were also seen by Mio, Johanna, Knud and Me who were out at Worlds end 3 today.

Like the last few days there were not too many birds migrating today, but we got some nice Waders (Vadefugle) like Turnstone (Stenvender), Red Knot (Islandske Ryle) and Ruff (Brushane) migrating very close over our heads.

There were also some Yellow Wagtails (Gul Vipstjert) migrating today and it was interesting to notice that it was mainly the subspecies thunbergi today and not flava which was dominating the last days. And there were also more Kittiwakes (Ride) migrating which was very nice to watch.

Observers trying to find some good birds

In the last hour we suddenly spotted two Skuas (Kjove) flying out on the sea and after a few moments we were sure that they actually were first year Long-tailed Skuas (Lille Kjove).

There was also an Arctic Skua (Almindelig Kjove) flying with them so we got the awesome opportunity to see the difference in those species.

Luckily the  Long tailed Skuas (Lille Kjove) were not migrating very straight, they were flying around for quite a while  and we could observe them for almost twenty minutes.

We all really enjoyed this observation and also the Ringers got to see these fantastic birds, which were also lifers for Jule and Mio.

After we all came back we did some data work and later went grocery shopping. 

Later Simon came to the station after he picked up our new guests Kristine and Jan. 

After our evening meeting Johanna made a delicious dinner. Later in the evening we all went out again for some evening observations.

Johanna and Jule went to Sarvsøen, where they found many nice Waders (Vadefugle) like two Ruff (Brushane) and again very high numbers of Common Snipe (Dobbeltbekassin).

Therwile Simon K., Mio and I went to Worlds end 4 for some Sea- and Gullwatching. On our way back we passed the Seal Bunker where we refound the Longtailedduck (Havlit) which has been hanging around with the Eiders (Ederfugle) for almost a month now. Additionally there was also a very cute Black Guillemot (Tejst) sitting on the Bunker and a very close second calendar year Black-throated Diver (Sortstrubet Lom) swimming in the evening sun.

Evening obs from worlds end 4

Now we will go to bed dreaming of all the fantastic birds we saw today and looking forward to some nice observations tomorrow. 

Highlights from the observations:

Long-tailed Skua - Lille Kjove 2

Arctic Skua - Almindelig Kjove 2

Spoonbill - Skestork 1

Ringing (Kabeltromlen):

Icterine Warbler (Gulbug) 1 

Great Tit (Musvit) 5

Blue Tit (Blåmejse) 2

Lesser Whitethroat (Gærdesanger) 2

Willow Warbler (Løvsanger) 1

Pied Flychatcher (Broget Fluesnapper) 1

Reed Bunting (Rørspurv) 2

Total: 13

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

People: Mio Brix, Cora Köberle, Jule Tappe, Simon Kiesé, Johanna Ventjeer, Knud Pedersen, Simon S. Christiansen, Jørgen Kabel, Jan Hjort Christensen, Kristine Kleffel.

Dark sky, peaceful surroundings and tensioned nets: If all these characters matching, we call it nightcatching! 

On this night, Jule did the night watch and checked the Storm-petrel (Stormsvale) and Nightjar (Natravn) nets every hour. Only the Nightjar net was successful this night. We caught 3 Nightjars! 

1K Nightjar (Natravn)

After we ringed the last Nightjar, which was caught in the closing round, the sky over Skagen slowly turned from dark to light. This meant that Simon Jr. and Cora were already at Skarvsøen, where they opened the nets. Unfortunately, they caught only 7 birds during the 6 hours of ringing, also due to the wind, which picked up during the ringing. But they used the time between the net rounds to check the lake. This turned out to be very successful! With 133 roosting Common Snipes (Dobbeltbekkasin), 1 1K Spotted Redshank (Sortklire) and a 1K Goshawk (Duehøg), they still had some great birds to watch!

While Cora and Simon Jr counting the Snipes, Johanna and I biked out to World's End 3 for the migration count. We started with a good first hour, with some Redshanks (Rødben) and Snipes (Dobbeltbekkasin) migrating in flocks. But, as on the days before, there was still not much migration on the sea. However, the continuous scanning paid off a bit. We managed to see two migrating Black-throated Divers (Sortstrubet Lom) and a Great Skua (Storkjove).

Johanna counting birds at Worlds End 3

After ringing and the count, there was not much happening at the station. But when I woke up, I heard from Cora that she would make pizza for lunch, so that kept us motivated to do some data work, such as typing in the observations from our trip on Thursday (check out this blog to see what was happening there), which was done by Simon Jr with his fast fingers!

While doing that, we could already smell the pizza coming from the kitchen. While eating this delicious dinner, we had very nice and funny conversations about everything! And, of course, we also talked about what we will do (and wish for) tomorrow.

So, let's see what the next day will bring!

Ringing Skarvsøen:

Reed Warbler (Rørsanger)-3

Blackcap (Munk)-1

Chiffchaff (Gransanger)-2

Willow Warbler (Løvsanger)-1

Total: 7

Highlights of the observations:

Great Skua (Storkjove)-1

Spotted Redshank (Sortklire)-1

Goshawk (Duehøg)-1

Spoonbill (Skestork)-1

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

People: Mio Brix, Cora Köberle, Jule Tappe, Simon Kiesé, Johanna Ventjeer, Simon S. Christiansen, Ole Jørgensen, Brigitte Jørgensen, Lisa Vergin.

Loyal readers of this blog might know already what happy new I get to announce to today… Even though we all went to bed totally exhausted last night, there was more than one good reason to get up after midnight: We caught not one, but two European Storm Petrels (Lille Stormsvale) marking the fourth and fifth of this season. This is the station’s record since never before, so many Storm Petrels have been caught in one season.

The first bird was found in the net at around 1 am, the second about an hour later. With tired eyes, we all admired the mysterious birds that just made history! Cora also got to ring her first Storm Petrel so it was an exciting night for everybody.

One of two European Storm Petrels (Lille Stormsvale) we caught very early in the day.

Late in the night (or early in the morning), Mio replaced Simon Sr. with the night shifts and later, he and Cora closed the nets before going to World’s End 3 for migration count. There were not many birds around but some Arctic Skuas (Almindelig Kjove) and to Black-throated Divers (Sortstrubet Lom) brought nice variety.

In the meantime, Simon Jr. and I were on our way to Kabeltromlen, opening nets and getting ready for another morning of ringing. We caught two Pied Flycatchers (Broget Fluesnapper), some Acrocephalus warblers and our usual favourite: Common Whitethroats (Tornsanger).

Mio used the time to look for passerines, visited us at Kabeltromlen to join for two rounds and set up an audio recorder. Later, he looked at Gulls (Måger) at Grenen with Cora.

After the morning tasks, data entry and quality assurance awaited us, followed by a much sought-after nap.

Cora and Mio decided to go birdwatching at Nordstrand and Skarvsøen, where they saw many Common and a couple of Velvet Scoters (Sortand, Fløjlsand). Also, the Spoonbill (Skestork) that we wrote about a couple of days ago is still there, today joined by a Spotted Redshank (Sortklire).

While most of us were sleeping, our guests Brigitte and Ole drove into town to buy the ingredients for dinner tonight. And they really cooked!

After this super successful day for each of us as well as the station, we all enjoyed a delicious meal in the lighthouse garden, perfected by a dessert of koldskål and champagne to celebrate the record.

Also, with the arrival of Johanna, our team expanded today and will be enriched by her for the next two weeks.

Then it was time to prepare for another night of catching birds: Setting up the Nightjar (Natravn) and Storm Petrel nets.

While writing this blog, I was interrupted since I had to check the nets and I can tell you already that we have been successful with catching two Nightjars so far. Let’s see what else the night brings and if we can expand our Storm Petrel record tonight!

 One of the Nightjars (Natravn) we caught very late in the day.

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

People: Mio Brix, Cora Köberle, Jule Tappe, Simon Kiesé, Simon S. Christiansen, Ole Jørgensen, Brigitte Jørgensen, Jeppe Madsen, Lisa Vergin, Johanna Ventjeer.

Did you know, that SKAF stands for Sleep Kisses you After Fieldwork?
To be fair – and not make fun of you, the intellectual blog reader – this is not the real definition. Some rumors even say, it simply means SKAgen Fuglestation, but let me get to my point now. Carrying out daily tasks such as ringing or counting often causes us volunteers to wake up early in the morning. The equation is easy: less sleep for more birds. One of the best examples for this trade-off is today. Are you ready for good birds, good company and no sleep?

Even the most unusual days start with committing to our standardised tasks in the early morning. With one eye open and the second one still asleep Mio and I opened nets at Kabeltromlen. On our way there we flushed a Woodcock (Skovsneppe) on the road. An unusual sighting in August. After low numbers the day before, we were enlighted by some pretty birds. One Pied Flycatcher (Broget Fluesnapper) and a young Spotted Flycatcher (Grå Fluesnapper) enhanced our mood a lot. Suddenly, Simon Sr. said “shh” and after stopping chewing on my delicious cookie also I could hear the shark calls of a Greenish Warbler (Lundsanger) just next to Kabeltromlen. Click here to listen so Simon Sr's audio recording of its calls.

Another highlight was a young Marsh Warbler (Kærsanger) and an old (4K, known age due to ring) Reed Warbler (Rørsanger). Usually their measurements of the wing length and the notch on the second outermost primary help us to verify our species identification, but interestingly both birds today had the same measurements (wing: 67 mm, Notch P9: 10 mm).

In the meantime Jule and Mio used the count to scan the flock of Gulls (Måge) and Terns (Terner) multiple times. A pretty Black-throated Diver (Sortstrubet Lom) was resting. Even though there were only a few Seabirds, the migrating Waders (Vadefugl) entertained the counters. Jule mentioned it was also really silent at World’s End 3, since there were hardly any noisy Sandwich Terns (Splitterne).

After heading back to the lighthouse to have a quick breakfast, Ole and I drove us volunteers to Vejlerne, two hours Southwest of Skagen. It’s a huge wetland area and we agreed with Knud to go there today for a fun birding trip.

Knud arrived early and watched the known Griffin Vulture (Gåsegrib) hanging in one scope field with a White-tailed Eagle (Havørn) and a Caspian Tern (Rovterne). When we arrived the Vulture was gone unfortunately and no one knew, where it went. This did not kill our mood, since there were still many birds to enjoy: Two Peregrine Falcons (Vandrefalk), a stunning flock of more than 1200 Sand Martins (Digesvale) and 450 Golden Plovers (Hjejle).

Cora watching birds.

On the way out I spotted two Clouded Yellow (Colias crocea, Orange høsommerfugl). A rare butterfly up here, that spreads north recently. On the way back to the car we saw a Scarce Cooper (Lycaena virgaureae, Dukatsommerfugl). Afterwards we went to some other spots at Vejlerne.

Mio on his way to the next hide.

The big highlight was a young Red-necked Phalarope (Odinshane) swimming on a pond. Super cute birds! Other good waders included three young Little Stints (Dværgryle), a Pied Avocet (Klyde) and three young Black-tailed Godwits (Stor Kobbersneppe) of which two belong to the continental subspecies limosa and one with features of the icelandic ssp. islandica.

After being awake for more than 13 hours with birds but no breaks, we stopped in a supermarket before heading back to Skagen. After arriving tired at 8 pm, we enjoyed 30 minutes of rest before setting up nets for another night of Storm-Petrel catching. Such a fun day with a variety of nice birds. This is SKAF!

Spoiler about tonight:

Lighthouse eclipse. Picture by Simon Kiesé

Observation highlights:

Greenish Warbler (Lundsanger) - 1

Ringing (KAB):

This morning I woke up after sleeping through the whole night. Sadly there was no nigtcatching success tonight. But so we could get some good sleep for the day.
I started my day with opening the nets at Kabeltromelen together with Simon K.
After opening we could watch a nice sunrise at Grenen. And got the help of Alma and also Ole came out to Kabeltromelen.
In our first round we caught some nice Willow Warblers (Løvsanger) and took that as a nice sign for a good ringing day.
The next rounds got a bit slower with fewer birds, but there were some really nice ones like a young Spotted Flycatcher (Grå Fluesnapper) and also some old birds.
It was nice to not also catch young birds and get a little challenge with aging old Chiffchaffs (Gransanger).
Between the rounds we also found some very nice Sand Lizards (Markfirben) in the dunes.

Løvsanger (Willow Warbler), Foto Simon Kiesé

Mio also found his way out to Grenen again this morning to do the migration count. He got good company from Hugo, a french birdwatcher who is in Skagen right now.
Like yesterday there was not much migrating over the sea, but they still got some Waders (Vadefugl) like some nice Turnstones (Stenvernder) migrating over the beach. Because it was not very busy they had time to have some good talks about Seawatching in France.
Just before they wanted to finish the count a huge flock of 362 fouraging Gannets (Sule) forming a bird tornado over the sea, that must have looked very impressive.

After finishing our field tasks we went back to the Station, where we met Simon Sr. and said good morning to Jule who stayed up all night for the nightshift.
After doing data work we all got some good naps and I went for a swim in the sea where I found a beautiful purple Starfish (Søsterne).

In the evening Jule cooked a very delicious dinner with Tofu which was joined by our guests Brigitte and Ole.

After dinner we could already see many people gathering next to the Lighthouse waiting for the solar eclipse. So we also grabbed some solar eclipse glasses and went out to watch this special astronomical event. Down there we also met Páll and Sophie. Later Simon, Lisa, Jørgen Kabel and Jeppe Madsen also joined us.

We all got some very nice and impressive pictures of the solar eclipse and the people from the lighthouse shop even brought out some cake which made the evening perfect.

Solar eclipse (Foto by Simon Kiesé)

Highlights from the observations:

Solar eclipse - Solformørkelse

Ringing (Kabeltromlen):

Løvsanger - Willow Warbler 4
Munk - Blackcap 3
Gærdesanger - Lesser Whitethroat 1
Tornsanger - Common Whitethroat 1
Gransanger - Chiffchaff 1
Jernspurv - Dunnock 2

Total: 12

 People: Mio Brix, Cora Köberle, Jule Tappe, Simon Kiesé, Alma Wingård, Lisa Vergin, Simon S. Christiansen, Ole Jørgensen, Brigitte Jørgensen, Jørgen Kabel, Hugo Bassuyaux, Páll Van Kjærbo, Sophie Booker, Jeppe Madsen.

Slowly, the first glimmers of sunlight could be seen over Grenen. By this point, Moritz and Simon had already opened all the nets and were setting off on their first round deep into the tangle of Kabeltrommelkrattet. After the next rounds, more and more visitors began to arrive at Kabeltrommeln. At first, there was a brief fear that there might end up being more visitors at Kabeltrommeln than birds in the nets, but the long distance migrants, such as Willow Warblers (Løvsanger), a young Pied Flycatcher (Broget Fluesnapper) and even a young female Whinchat made that impossible. What a lovely combination: lots of interesting conversations with interesting people and also fantastic birds to ring! 

Many vistors at Kabeltrommlen. Foto: Simon S. Christiansen

Today’s migration count was interesting in a different way. We (Knud, Cora, Jule and I) all set off for the Worlds End 3 dune with high hopes (especially Knud, who, in his enthusiasm, arrived a bit earlier than the rest of us and even overtook Jule on the way). Why were our hopes so high today? As you might have read from previous blogs , we’ve been experiencing a prolonged period of strong westerly winds, which are now almost completely dying down today. This is ideal for spotting birds such as shearwaters, which are blown into the Kattegat by the strong wind and then fly back out again when the wind drops. Unfortunately, neither Shearwaters (Skråpe) nor a single Skua (Kjove) made an appearance today. Nevertheless, we were able to pass the time by observing a few migrating Waders (Vadefugl) and Fulmars (Mallemuk).

Today it is Moritz’s last day at the station. To round off his stay in Skagen we decided to enjoy the view over the whole Skagen area from the lighthouse. 

View from the Lighthouse. Foto by Mio Brix

Afterwards, we headed to Kap Gadagung to look for some raptors. We enjoyed the view up there and were able to see a 1K Goshawk (Duehøg), as well as some overflying Greenshanks (Hvidklire) and Bar-tailed Godwits (Lille Kobbersneppe).

On our way back across Reservatet, we spotted around 18 Whinchats (Bynkefugl) and 6 Wheatears (Stenpikker).

Meanwhile, Simon Sr and the guests from Oldenburg had been at the antenns in Reservatet to check if it still receives data of radio-tagged birds.

Checking antenna. Foto by Simon S. Christiansen

In the evening, we set up two nets at Grenen Parking to catch White Wagtails (Hvid Vipstjert). While the nets were being set and we enjoyed a delicious meal prepared by Simon, a total of 10 White Wagtails were caught in the nets!

We are hoping that we can continue this catching success in the next episode of night-catching Storm-Petrels (Stormsvale) and Nightjars (Natravn). Find out how it went in our next blog post!

Highlights from the observations:

Goshawk (Duehøg) - 1

Whinchat (Bynkefugle) - 18

Green Woodpecker (Grønspætte) - 1

Ringing (Kabeltromlen):

Total: 22

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

 People: Mio Brix, Cora Köberle, Jule Tappe, Moritz Morteani, Simon Kiesé, Alma Wingård, Lisa Vergin, Simon S. Christiansen, Ole Jørgensen, Brigitte Jørgensen, Knud Pedersen, Jørgen Kabel (+Igor), Laima Bagdonaité, Jule Koch, Thiemo Karwinkel, Hugo Bassuyaux, Sophie Booker, Emmeli Agerskov Claré, Páll Van Kjærbo.

Cora, Jule and Simon took care of the ringing today and opened the nets at 04:30. Weather conditions were very windy, with a bit of rain, so numbers stayed low, but a few interesting birds were caught nonetheless. The first Sedge Warbler of the season, with a fat score of 7, was a herald of the autumn migration season. Furthermore, a Blackcap with an oddly shaped bill was caught. This can probably be explained by avian keratin disorder.

A Blackcap (Munk) with the upper mandible beeing much longer and more curved then normal.

The Migration count 05:30 this morning was covered by Mio and me. We we're welcomed by a btit of rain which later turned into very nice weather. Sadly, migration was slow, and accordingly there is not much to report. But we got one highlight with a migrating Caspian Tern (Rovterne) over World End 3.

In the afternoon, we undertook an excursion to get groceries and search for the Silver-spotted Skipper (Hesperia comma). After walking through the stormy grassland south of Skagen for an hour, we found it and could enjoy this rare species.

Simon showing 100% percent efford on the search for the butterfly.

As I am writing this blog right now, a strong westerly storm is shaking the house. This is supposed to drop tomorrow morning, promising good conditions for shearwaters. We're excited to see what tomorrow will bring!

Highlights from the observations:
Caspian Tern (Rovterne) – 1
Rosefinch (Karmindompap)– 1

Ringing (Kabeltromlen):
Gærdesanger – 3
Tornsanger – 4
Munk – 1
Gransanger – 1
Sivesanger – 1
Rørsparv – 1

Total: 11

Link to today's observations in the DOF base from observers in the area.

People: Mio Brix, Cora Köberle, Jule Tappe, Moritz Morteani, Simon Kiesé, Simon S. Christiansen, Ole Jørgensen, Brigitte Jørgensen

This morning, Simon K., Katia and Moritz cycled to Kabeltromlen for ringing while Mio, Cora and I went out for counting. And while it was still a rather slow day bird-wise, we were all rewarded with nice birds and experiences:

During the count, we were joined by Erik, Knud and Simon, with the last one simply appearing out of nowhere and jumpscaring everyone a little. We spotted some of the birds that have become good friends with us over the last couple of days like the Great Northern Diver (Islom) whose photo you saw in yesterday’s blog or the male long-tailed duck (Havlit) that has been resting between Eiders (Ederfugl) in Kattegat for about four weeks now. And while there was low activity of migration in general, one species was really prominent today: Great Skuas (Storkjove)! We managed to count nine of them within two hours. This high count might be a good sign for the population whose breeding numbers declined heavily in the past couple of years due to Avian Influenza.

Knud, Cora, Mio and Jule counting a World's End 3. Foto: Simon S. Christiansen.

In the meantime, the ringers managed to catch 18 birds, including a foreign recapture of a Lesser Whitethroat (Gærdesanger) from Norway.

There were also high number of Willow Warbler (Løvsanger) caught, creating a nice rining session altogether. It was perfected of an observation of insect-kind: The ringing team spottet three seabuckthorn flies (Rhagoletis batava, Havtornflue) with two of them copulating! This is the second, third and fourth record of this species north of Copenhagen for Denmark. This means that the species might a have stable population here in Skagen!

Seabuckthorn Flies (Havtornflue) on a leaf of seabuckthorn creating new flies. Foto: Simon Kiesé.

While closing nets at around 10 am, the counting team met the ringing team at Kabeltromlen to eat cookies and have nice company. Some raptors and waders occuring over Storsig made everyone pause on the way back to the lighthouse for birdwatching.

Around noon, everyone was busy with breakfast/lunch, data entry and a nap. This included a delicious seabuckthorn tea by Simon and Katia. Suddenly, Simon called and we all went to the lab because he had brought sparrowhawk (Spurvehøg)! The bird had been lured into his neighbour’s greenhouse by a smart passerine, making the greenhouse into a raptor trap!

Second year male sparrowhawk (Spurvehøg). Foto: Simon S. Christiansen.

We ringed this very pretty bird and got ready for an afternoon birding session. Cora, Moritz and Mio went for a walk around Grenen, Storsig and Jennes Sø and saw Northern Wheatears (Stenpikker) and several Red-backed Shrikes (Rødrygget tornskade). I went on a walk around Storsig and Ellekrattet.

After that, we all met for evening meeting, greeting our new guests Ole and Brigitte. It’s their fourth visit to the lighthouse and the station already, so they are old friends at this point really. Good to have you back!

In the evening, it was time for more data entry, photo archive and spreadsheet work while finishing the day with a delicious dinner cooked by Mio.

Link to today's observations in the DOF base from observers in the area.

People: Mio Brix, Cora Köberle, Jule Tappe, Moritz Morteani, Simon Kiesé, Katia Kit, Simon S. Christiansen, Erik Christophersen, Knud Pedersen, Ole Jørgensen, Brigitte Jørgensen

The day started earlier than the days before for Simon and me. We headed to Skarvøen to do the CES ringing. Due to the wind, we immediately noticed less songbird activity in the bushes, but as we arrived, we got some great views of different larger white birds: 10 Great White Egrets (Sølvhejre), one Mute Swan (Knopsvane), and the now well-known 1K Spoonbill (Skestork) was still around. Different wader species on the muddy parts kept us looking the lake, while a young Goshawk (Duehøg) gave us another reason to keep an eye on the sky between the net rounds.

Actually, we caught more birds in total than we expected. We ringed 21 birds, which is still not much for a CES ringing day, but completely okay under these windy conditions. And you always get at least one interesting bird in the nets. Today, it was a Lesser Whitethroat (Gærdesanger) with a smaller P1 on the left wing. As we looked at the bird in more detail, we noticed that there were some kind of parasites on it. Later, Simon got a message via Instagram that these were mallophaga, which chew on feather keratin.

Lesser Whitethroat (Gærdesanger) with a smaller P1. Foto by Simon Kiesé

Jule and Moritz went out to World’s End 3 for the migration count today and were later joined by Erik. There were not many birds migrating in total, but the stationary birds also kept them looking to the sea. They got a migrating Great Skua, which, like the birds from the last few days, migrated into the Skagerrak. Maybe it will meet the other Great Skuas we had the days before, and then they can talk about how nice their way over the tip was ;)

And, just like with the Spoonbill (Skestork) at Skarvøen, they also got the well-known 2K Great Northern Diver (Islom) again, which moved from its sleeping place somewhere near the Sealbunker over the tip until it reached the Skagerrak and met its smaller friends, the Red-throated Divers (Rødstrubet Lom) up there. Moritz managed to get some great pictures of that bird, which I now present to you:

2K Great Northern Diver (Islom) to the right with a Red-throated Diver (Rødstrubet Lom) to the left close to the shoreline at Grenen. Foto by Moritz Morteani

We all also heard that the Basking Shark (Brugde) at Ålbæk (20 km south of Skagen) unfortunately died, but somehow you would also expected this from an animal which is not used to our conditions up here. 

At noon, most of us ate something and took a nap to get some energy back after our morning. With this new energy, Jule and I went grocery shopping for some things we need for the next great dinners up here. As we had today as well. Jule prepared a delicious dinner, and while eating, we welcomed Cora, a former volunteer, who will stay here for two weeks. It’s nice to have her back at the station after her longer stay in spring and summer 2025.

After dinner, we had the evening meeting and planned the next few days. In the coming days, especially when the wind goes down, we can look forward to night catching and maybe Shearwaters (Skråpe) in the field.

Lets see what the next days will bring!

Total: 21

Link to today's observations in the DOF base from observers in the area.

People: Cora Köberle, Jule Tappe, Mio Brix, Moritz Morteani, Simon Kiesé, Katia Kit, Simon S. Christiansen, Erik Christophersen