Pibesvaner!

After the short night we had due to the nightctaching-success Simon and Magnus had the evening before, we were all out early today, as we were looking forward for a bright morning. It is very interesting to see how fast the weather can change in Skagen. As the counting conditions were quite tough yesterday, today turned out to be sunny and with almost no wind. We started counting at World Ends 3 already before sunrise. Due to the calm wind conditions migration was not very high in numbers, but we had quite a nice variety of species.

One of our highlights this morning were definitely the Bewick’s Swans (Pibesvane). It was a pleasure to see them! Besides the Bewick’s we also had Whooper Swans (Sangsvane), some flocks of geese, especially the 37 Taigabeangeese (Tajgasædgås) should be mentioned at this point, and right in front of us at Grenen some Snow Buntings (Snespurv) decided to see how we were doing.

Mira and Simon counting at World's End 3

The conditions we were facing today were also quite typical for Jackdaw (Allike) migration. They are coming form the Inland in smaller groups and then gather in big flocks just over the tip before they go out over the sea.

After we went back from migration, we had a dip in the sea just at the beach right next to the lighthouse. That was fun and quite cold at the same time!

In the afternoon we decided to go “roun roun” with the bikes again and ended up at den Tilsandene Kirke in the South of Skagen. Unfortunately, the door was closed so we couldn’t get up there, but anyways, it was amazing to explore the area around there.

Now we are back at the station, I am sitting in our hygge livingroom and I can hear the ships hooting out there at the sea because of the heavy fog that has now enveloped Skagen.

Today’s observations in Dofbasen from observers in the area.

Sum of the raptors in the area based on observations typed into Dofbasen the same day.

People at the station: Mira Kieckbusch, Isis Khalil, Magnus Houen Lauritsen, Simon Kiesé, Johanna Veentjer