First day of autumn brings about a record and new people!

1/9 is the first autumn day in started with the usual routine of going to Worlds End 3. The day didn’t bring about another rarities BUT we completely blew apart the old Skagen-record for Mediterranean Gulls, with 12 individuals counted at the same time! All of them 1k birds, no nice adults, but still cool to see so many of this once quite rare bird in Denmark! Of other nice birds was a Common Kingfisher that flew by us before sunrise at the OP. My first ever seen in Skagen, same goes for Frederik. Of other rarities was the fact that the entire observatory was out doing the obs, so everyone got a share in fun that is counting migration as we had no one with a C-license at the Kabeltromlen today. With nice observations of arctic skuas and other seabirds it was still nice, though there was no migration. Everyone went back when the obs stopped, but me and Frederik stayed longer since a trawler was heading towards harbour with a bunch of fulmars following, so we tried to see if we could find another Balearic Shearwater or something better, but no dice, except 18 fulmars

SKAF's emotional support pet - Igor, has probably seen more bird species than most birdwatchers

Ezra had to leave though as he had to return to the UK, we wish him safe travels and good luck with all future endeavours, it was nice having you here! After the obs me and Frederik went through Ellekrattet where we found a quite late brood of Icterine Warblers with younglings getting fed. We hope they have a safe travel to Africa, if not, we hope that they will make some rarity finder very happy somewhere.

The finnstick - here implemented expertly by Frederik Johansen

At the station we all took long naps and Hans had to leave, it was a great joy to have him also, had we hope returns soon and bring some more rare birds with him to Skagen. We then got ready for storm petrel catching and greeted the new guests that were going to stay at the Apartment, Ole and Birgitte, who are going stay with us for the week and along with them Mara our new volunteer from Germany also joined us! Two people left, three more arrived, There is always people at the station, an international revolving door.

Prepping the nets for storm petrel catching

Now we wait for a Storm Petrel to be caught, otherwise fingers cross for a good morning obs!

Ringing (Kabeltromlen):

Total: 0

Link to today's observations from observers in the area