Enjoying the Skagen jungle

In the jungle, the Skagen jungle, the volunteers did not sleep tonight.

In the jungle, the Grenen jungle, the volunteers went out early in the morning.

Auuuuuuuuuuuuueeeaaaaeeaaaeaaambaammbaaaeeeeeeeee.

At 3.55 am I looked on the time and all nets are opened, another day in Skagen starts. The first round in the ringing was pretty fine and several Blackcaps (Munk) showed up. Even if the numbers lowered during the morning, some more Garden Warblers (Havesanger) got a new ring. In the last round two Lesser Redpolls (Lille Gråsisken) surprised us. Since there were not so many birds, we could spend some more time on looking on the extend of the moult of some of the birds.

In the meanwhile, the count was not really better, but since Skagen is a great spot for birding, there are still good birds around. The highlight was a Red-breasted Flycatcher (Lille Fluesnapper) calling at World’s End 1. Four Arctic Skuas (Almindelig Kjove), Corn Bunting (Bomlærke), Black-thorated Divers (Sortstrubet Loms), Rosefinchs (Karmindompap) and again a late Brambling (Kvækerfinke) show, that there are always good birds around. Later some Honey Buzzards (Hvepsevåge) passed by very lose, so beautiful!

In the afternoon, we met Simon Sr. in town at a Café and had nice Icecream/Icecoffee. That was really chilled. Then I put my letter for the EU-parlament-elections in the mail box and we went shopping. We bought a Pineapple, that was another highlight of this calm and sunny day. It is the best food when it is so warm like today. Isis prepared nice Kebap for dinner and it was really really really tasty. I’m not kidding. It was amazing, the best stuff I have eaten for a long while. Afterwards Karen-Marie and Søren – our new guests in the apartment – arrived. Hayley, Seán and and I knew them before, so it was great to see them again. Really nice people! Tomorrow there will be some westerly winds. The change in wind is very interesting and it can bring some good birds, but it can also be a bit slow. Let’s hope the best, we will be out in anyway and hope for some nice surprises. Since the WiFi is not working at the moment, data entery is a bit hard at the moment. At least the blog is online now, so we can enjoy the last sunlight outside before we fall into our bed. Station’s life is fun!

Ringing totals can not be added right now due to wifi problems. The highlights are mentioned in the blog in anyway. ;-)

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: Seán Walsh, Hayley Land, Isis Khalil, Magnus Houen Lauritsen, Simon Kiesé, Simon S. Christiansen, Jørn and Marianne, Karen-Marie and Søren Leth-Nissen.