Birds, Sunrises and Flowers

I just arrived in Skagen on Wednesday but very late in the evening, about 8.30pm, therefore, I spent all of Thursday exploring the local area. I am loving it here already as the sand dunes are blooming with beautiful purple heather, sea buckthorn, harebells, scabious and lots more! Also, EVERYWHERE I look there are just so many different species of birds that I have not seen before, so my time here is off to a great start.

As Simon left yesterday to go to some other site to bird ring for a few days, there was not a lot on the agenda today (even though it would have been great weather for bird ringing). All five of us and Jan the guest left at 5.20 am this morning with the scopes to do the bird migration counts at World’s End Three. The migration was slow, however, it was a great experience for me doing a migration count in Skagen. There were many roosting Gulls and flying Gannets at the beach. It was a very nice morning as the weather was calm and a lovely sunrise was witnessed. There were two woodpeckers at the beach flying around the sand dunes. I love their calls.

Once we all returned to the station after the migration counts, we ate breakfast and then cleaned up the station. There was nothing planned for the afternoon in relation to birds, so we all did our own thing. I went on a very long walk across the sand dunes which are covered in heather and through the woods to listen and look out for some birds. I heard several blue tits and found some very cool mushrooms growing along the woodland path. We all had a very tasty dinner made by Bjorn and then we all sat down to watch an old documentary about birds.

People: Hayley Land, Gustav Nyberg, Rebecca Cheape, Simon Kiesé, Bjørn Laursen, Simon S. Christiansen, Lisa Vergin, Kristine og Jan Hjort Christensen

A link to today's observations from volunteers and local observers.