Rainbow day

Hej!

After a slightly rainy start to the ringing today, we were rewarded for our early rise with a beautiful rainbow and some great species, including a Water Rail/Vandrikse and a Tree Pipit/Skovpiber. Oluf, Mette and Helge joined us todaz - thanks for the help and the great company! We caught 27 birds in total and had a great chance to further develop our ageing skills with dunnocks/Jernspurv, which we seem to be catching more frequently now.

The Tree Pipit/Skovpiber in front of a faint rainbow

Ringing in front of a rainbow

Ragnar and Augustin, at the Observation, spottet some migrating Grey Watails, a Honey Buzzard flyig over and two Arctic Skuas. Surprises where two Swifts - quite late for the seasos- and and a first-year Yellow-legged Gull, which is the first report of this species in the area in years!

Yellow-legged gull (1k) / Middelhavs-sølvmåge

After a quick refuel of energy at the station, itwas back to birding. Ragnar spotted eight Spotted Flycatcher at Elle Krattet before meeting Augustin and Rosa for seawatching at World's End 3. While they where out, they noticed that the air was filled with Dunnock/Jernspurv calls and the sky was showing a beautiful rainbow (again). Ragnar, who went home earlier to cook us a delicius dinner, missed the sight of 40 Fulmars/Mallemuk following a fishing travler.

Sun + Rain = Rainbow

Hightligts from the observations:

Yellow-legged Gull / Middelhavssølvmåge - 1 1k (first record for Skagen since 2019)

Caspian Gull / Kaspisk Måge - 2 1k, 2k

Mediterranean Gull / Sorthovedet Måge - 3 1k

Arctic Skua / Almindelig Kjove- 2 1k

Honey Buzzard / Hvepsevåge - 1 1k (migration attempt for the fourth day in a row)

Ringing (Kabeltromlen):

Vandrikse - 1

Musvit - 1

Grå Fluesnapper - 1

Rødhals - 8

Løvsanger - 1

Jernspurv - 9

Munk - 5

Skovpiber - 1

Total: 27

Link to today's observations from observers in the area

People at the station: Ragnar Smith, Rosa Hicks, Augustin Sticksel, Mara Glane, Oluf Lou, Mette, Helge and Inga.