Preparations

Today's blog post will be a little shorter in preparation for what we hope will be a very cool tomorrow. Tonight we will try again to ring double snipe. Last time it worked well and we were able to ring an individual. Hopefully it will work as well again tonight. Hayley will tell you the results here in the blog tomorrow.

like always - beautiful sunrise at Grenen

As it is very windy at the moment and there is not much bird migration, only the migration count was on the agenda. As there were hardly any birds migrating, it was very quiet. At least the wind brought a few more Kittiwakes (Ride), of which we could even read three colour rings. Highlights were a dark morph K1 Arctic Skua (Almindelig Kjove) and a K1 Black Guillemot (Tejst).

Antonia took this nice picture of the Harbour Seals at the tip

In the meantime, the rest of us swarmed around the area to get to know the surroundings better or to find some nice birds. Gustav's goal of finding a Red-footed Falcon unfortunately didn't work out, but he did get to see a Honey Buzzard.

Then Simon told us about the plans for the next hours and days. He is now lucky enough to be ringing on a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea and will be leaving us for a few days. During this time, however, we will be supported by other ringers, so that our projects can continue without restrictions.

So, now I'm getting ready for what I hope will be a good night. That's it, I'm going to sleep. In this sense - good night!

People: Hayley Land, Gustav Nyberg, Simon Kiesé, Rebecca Cheape, Antonia Greil, Simon S. Christiansen, Knud Pedersen, Ole and Birgitte.

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