Wind in the north, winter is coming ?

The weather was unforgiving this morning… Lots of wind that made observations rough and with sand flying everywhere. Augustin, Rosalina, Jan and I had to hide behind a bunker to keep our scopes protected. With these windy conditions, we saw several great Skuas, foraging and harassing gulls for fish.

Simon and the rest of us have been preparing for the arrival of the members of the board of BirdLife Denmark (Danish Ornithological Society ó DOF in Danish). They joined us in the evening and held a board meeting. They will stay for the weekend and join us for the different activities.

We look forward to the wind settling down in the next few days so we can resume ringing at Kabeltromlen and Jennes Sø. In the meantime, our attempts at night catching have been unsuccessful, the ringed plovers (stor præstekrave) and dunlins (almindelig ryle) are way too elusive for our primitive catching technique.

Folk på stationen: Simon S Christiansen, Ulysse Reverre, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Jan Spieierman, Grethe & Stig og Sigrid Andersen.

Klik her for at se dagens observationer fra Dofbasen af fugle i Skagen