A windy day among the birds

Hello everyone !

Our day starts with the sunrise; Martina, Rita and I walked along the water from the lighthouse to the tip of the beach. We counted the birds that were roosting on the sand and tried to observe migrating birds. Unfortunatly, it was a very windy morning and not a lot of birds were seen but Martina managed to get very close to some gulls and take a good picture of 3 ringed birds.

                               3 ringed lesser black-backed gulls in the middle of the roost

One of the bird has been ringed near Oslo in 2017, spotted in Germany and Spain in 2018 and now it is stopping by Skagen. The other one was ringed in Hirsholm in 2017, was spotted in France in 2018, in Denmark in 2020 and then in Morocco in 2021 before coming back to Denmark this year !

A bit later in the morning, Knud and Max joined us to count the migrating birds. Once again, not a lot of birds were observed.

In the afternoon, Martina and I went shopping and observing birds in the harbor while Max tried to catch some white wagtails in the garden.After a very hard biking experience due to the wind, we counted more than 200 cormorans resting on the pier with few gulls among them.

Tonight the guests cooked for us and we are ready to enjoy a delicious meal !

Have a great evening and see you tomorrow !

Nathan

Local observations of the day in DOFBasen

People at the Station: Rita DeLucco, Alice Scalzo, Nathan Delmas, Max Laubstein, Simon S. Christiansen, Martina Hillbrand, Knud Pedersen, and our guests Mark, Malthe and Lærke Desholm