Gulls and more gulls

When the wind is that strong and the sky is fully charged with rain, all you want to do is… going to the harbour to look at some gulls!! What you might find though, if your eye is as sharp as Simon´s, is a purple sandpiper (Sortgrå ryle) resting on the rocks. This is what we did during the morning, when we took a small trip to Skagen with Simon, who actually also sent the snails that we collected yesterday for them to be tested against toxic substances. But we were not the only ones interested in gulls, as also our guests – Lotte and Rita – went out first thing in the morning to watch at the gulls feeding on the coast just down the lighthouse.. a spectacle with the light of the sunrise. They then walked to Grenen where they found two dead birds – most probably guillemots (lomvie) – and 11 resting seals at the tip. In the afternoon they walked to Jennes sø where they bumped into a hunter which had just shot two woodcocks (Skovsneppe). Although very sad, they took the chance to appreciate the birds up close.

As for Robbie, this morning he went out to look for some migrating finches or trushes and he observed mistle trushes (misteldrossel), song trushes (sangdrossel) and redwings (vindrossel) and when he came home, he did some net fixing as the rest of us all.

Tomorrow it will still be a pretty windy day, but we will be out observing at World’s End 3!

Folk på stationen: Simon S. Christiansen, Rosalina Sø Leth-Nissen, Robbie Lawler, Angela Di Pumpo, Justine Costa, Georges Dieres Monplaisir, Lotte & Rita.

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