Another Great Spotted Eagle!!!

Lovely weather for ringing and watching, slow winds in the early morning followed by a beutifull sunrise, another great day to be in Skagen doing what we love most.

Lauren, Michael and Yehonatan went out ringing together with Simon, we expect it to be a very strong morning, but turned out to be just another great morning with the usual common birds in the ringing. 2 Ring ouzel (Ringdroussel) flew just above the nets, which we are all looking forward to catch one of theese, but that didnt happen today, maybe tomorow!

Vindoussel (Redwing) from the ringing today.

Dante and Jeppe went out to worlds end 1 for observations, they had a lovely morning with good nubmers of passerines migrating overhead, but the highlight was definitely a new Great spotted eagle (Stor Skrigeørn), a diffrent individual from the one that was seen i the area for the past few days, how exciting to see such a massive and powerfull bird.

Stor skrigeørn from today, Photo by Erik Christophersen.

In the evening Thomas from Sylt, Germany arrived to stay with us a couple of days.

Todays raptor summary can be found here

A full list of today's observations can be found here.

People: Yehonatan Ben Aroia, Jeppe Madsen, Michael Colley, Dante Shepherd, Lauren Evans, Simon Christiansen.

Ringing (Kabeltromlen):

Gærdesmutte (Wren) - 5

Jernspurv (Dunnock) - 1

Gransanger (Chiffchaff) - 14

Rødhals (Robin) - 13

Sangdrossel (Song Thrush) - 1

Vindrossel (Redwing) - 1

Solsort (Blackbird) - 1

Fuglekonge (Goldcrest) - 3

Rørspurv (Reed bunting) - 1

Total: 40