Sea watching showing promise

As the weather was so poor today we decided not to send anyone out ringing, instead, a few of us decided to try our luck at Kattegat Bunker. The weather started off poor and just got worse. We did however manage to spot a few species worthy of note, including Golden Plover (hjejle) , Red Knot (islandsk ryle), 6 Red Throated Diver (rødstrubet lom), and A resting Wigeon (pibeand) on the beach. We also managed to see large numbers of Common Scoters (sortand) and Eiders (ederfugl).  Thor saw a Red Throated Diver (rødstrubet lom) resting quite close to the shoreline, which is always a nice birding moment.

Michael, Alex and Rolf, and some other local birders went out at World’s End 1 today at Grenen and saw several interesting species including a Great skua (storkjove), purple sandpiper (sortgrå ryle), and Little Gull (dværgmåge). Ralf found a Cory’s Shearwater/scopolis shearwater species (Kuhls skråpe/Scopolis skråpe) and Alex found a Sabine’s Gull (Sabinemåge).  Yesterday Alex also spotted a Yellow Browed Warbler (Hvidbrynet løvsanger) behind the dunes. Hopefully with the Westerly winds some more rarities turn up soon.

Despite the weather, it was a reasonably successful birding day.

Bjarne, Edle, and Marianne cooked beef bourguignon for all the volunteers today, which made a real difference to our usual pasta. Thank you so much. We also have to thank Angela for providing two amazing desserts which rounded off the night.

We are back rining tomorrow, fingers crossed for an American rarity.

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Augustin Sticksel, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Robbie Lawler, Amelie Zeller, Thor, Angela di Pumpo, Justine Costa, Bjarne, Edle, Marianne,  Jørgen Kabel, Michael Fink og Knud Pedersen

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