Red-Footed Falcon (Aftenfalk) at Grenen!

This morning Amandine, Martin and I were going migration counting together at Verdens Ende 1. We had a rather slow morning but used the time to learn some passerine calls Martin pointed out to us. Amandine explained to me in a very well how moult cards work and how you can calculate the moult score. That was really good for me, because now I feel less overwhelmed with all the new information.

We saw 280 Northern Gannets (Sule) fishing at the tip of Denmark, a nice formation of migrating Greylag Geese (Grågås), some migrating Great Spotted Woodpeckers (Stor flagspætte) and our highlight was a Red-Footed Falcon (Aftenfalk).

Viktoria joined us later because she was preparing an Insects-Tour for today afternoon for our new guests Niklas and Laura and their children Falke and Fjord. After the counting we took a walk to Grenen where we could see the Gannets and the Seals from not so far away.

The Falcon took a short rest at the beach, as well and Viktoria was able to photograph it through her scope.

After the counting we started to clean the apartment. Viktoria was organizing her photos she took during her time here in the picture archive of the station, because sadly she and Amandine will leave on Thursday. We will really miss them! But hopefully we will meet again in winter when they come to visit the station.

In the afternoon we had a really nice Insects-Tour led by Viktoria.

We catched a really nice orb web spider.

As we are only us for volunteers at the station right now, we will go and have dinner at a nice Burger Place tonight in Skagen. We are really looking forward to going out today!

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People: Amandine Doré, Viktoria Mader, Martin Grienenberger, Amelie Zeller, Laura, Niklas, Falke, Fjord