Leach's Storm Petrel and Yellow-billed Divers!

Hej!

How many Yellow-billed Divers do you want to see today? Ragnar: Yes!

But first, let's start with the rigning. Finally, the wind let us open all the nets today. And our first round started with 8 birds and we were joined by Lorna and Lars. We then caught a very yellow and fancy looking adult Yellowhammer/Gulspurv.

Yellowhammer/Gulspurv - sophisticated gentleman

Now we come to the exciting day at the migration count. During the regular 4 hour count Ragnar and Emma saw a Great Skua/Storkjove, a European Shag/Topskarv and good numbers of Whooper Swans/Sangsvane. The Leach's Storm Petrel/Stor Stormsvale thought it was sneaky, when it passed by World's Ends 3 only after it saw that Emma left to visit the ringing. But it did not realize that Ragnar was still hiding in the dunes with the scope ready for every bird that flies by. And so it was seen by Ragnar, who was really happy about the first record of this species for this year in Denmark!

The nice observations only continued from there and Ragnar stayed almost until sunset. He was very busy counting all the Yellow-billed divers/Hvidnæbbet Lom flying by. He had some nice views on these beautiful birds. Today the record of 9 Yellow-billed Divers/Hvidnæbbet Lom in one day for Skagen was almost broken, but it ended up being a tie.

 

Because the last days where so stormy, today was the perfect day for a Fulmar-Survey, where we walk 10 km along the beach and collect/note down all the dead birds washed up on the shore (with a special focus on Fulmars/Mallemuk). Thomas, Emma and Lone went out to do the survey and found one dead fulmar among some other interesting (mostly dead) findings. At Højen they spotted a very late Northern Wheatear/Stenpikker.

Norther Wheatear/Stenpikker

I spent my afternoon/evening trying out some night catching by myself. I was not succesfull, but I think I got better with every Snipe/Dobbeltbekkasin I sneaked up on. They all flew away eventually, but I'll keep on practicing.

Highlights from the observation:

Yellow-billed Divers/Hvidnæbbet Lom- 7 seen by the Skaf-team and 2 more seen in around Grenen today!

Leach's Storm Petrel/Stor Stormsvale

Great Northern Diver/ Islom

"Viking Gull" - Hybrid of a Herring Gull/Solvmåge and a Glaucuis Gull/Gråmåge

Ringing (Kabeltromlen):

Vindrossel - 3

Solsort - 2

Gulspurv - 1

Rødhals - 2

Gærdesmutte - 5

Jernspurv - 2

Blåmejse - 3

Munk -1

Dompap - 1

Fuglekonge - 1

Total = 21

Ringing (Jennes Sø):

Gærdesmutte - 2

Fuglekonge - 1

Stor Gråsisken - 1

Lille Gråsisken 21

Total: 25

Ringing (Nordstjernevej):

Sortmejse - 1

Musvit - 1

Skovspurv - 1

Total: 3

Grand total: 49

Link to today's observations from observers in the area

People at the station: Thomas Weston, Emma Fabre, Ragnar Smith, Mara Glane, Simon Sigaard Christiansen, Lars & Lone