yank and shaaaaaag

G'day ladies and gentlemen

I hope your day has been just as good as mine, or better!

So get ready for a nice day-telling from all of us to you :)

Last night we attempted to catch storm-petrels (stormsvaler). It was Augustin who took on the heavy duty to be the nightwatcher and keeping an eye on the nets the whole night. We didn't unfortunately catch any storm birds, but we caught three common ringed plover (stor præstekrave).

Meanwhile at around 23 our new volunteer, Mara, arrived all the way from Germany!

Today I started going to world's end three together with Ragnar. Later Augustin and Knud joined our observation. Today there weren't as many gulls on the beach as there were yesterday. We didn't have 12 (!) Mediterranean gulls (Sorthovedet måge) but we had around three of them today, which was quite nice anyways. The observation also gifted us a beautiful Black Scoter (Amerikansk sortand) which layed close in skagerak and gave some good veiws. Later ROC called out a roosting Shag (Topskarv) on zello. It was quite active fouraging, so it was limited how good the views ended up being. Our guest Ole came around 9 am to try and get the Black Scoter and Shag, but without any luck unfortunately. Hopefully he will get some more success tomorrow when he joins the obs with us.

We didn't spend that much extra time after the standerdised-observation-period ended. That meant Ragnar and I got to finish, and sending our rarity commity bird descriptions on both the Brown booby (Brun sule) and the Balearic shearwater (Balearskråpe) and some more.

The ringing, let by Rosa, Mara and Simon gave a good surprise. It concerned not one, but two eisvogels (kingfisher, martin pescador, alcedo atthis, isfugl)! But otherwise the total couldn't keep up with the coolness from the kingfishers.

Later we all went on a driving trip to show Mara a bit of Skagen. Ragnar and I hadn't taken our scopes with us, so of course there were a shit ton of birds. But anyways, we then went to do some shopping, and now we have eaten a lovely lasagne made by Rosa, and we're all ready for tomorrow's surprises.

Ringing totals (night catching):

Stor Præstekrave – 3

Ringing totals (Kabeltromlen):

Tornsanger - 1

Gransanger - 3

Løvsanger - 1

Grå Fluesnapper - 1

Isfugl - 1

Munk - 4

Rødhals - 5

Rørsanger - 3

Total: 19

If you wanna learn more about the current volunteers, or previous volunteers, then you can learn more about them here!

Link to todays observations in Skagen

People at the station: Ragnar Smith, Rosa Hicks, Simon Sigaard Christiansen, Augustin Sticksel, Mara Glane, Ole and Birgitte and Frederik Johansen