Many people, few birds

Today we went out to the obs and the ringers went out to open the nets. Even though we can sleep a bit longer than before with late sunrise, the dreary weather puts a damper on the mood, today was no different. The morning obs was quiet, though a effort was made to relocate a tick-bunting found by one of the many visiting birders that are in Skagen at the moment, as the danish rarity committee are having their meeting in Skagen to assess the many rarity reports that they receive. The fruits of their hard labour can be seen by the fact that the Balearic Shearwater (Balearskråpe) and Greater Short-toed Lark (Korttået Lærke) that me and Frederik Johansen found earlier this year have been accepted! But back to morning observations. The weather was still a bit rainy which made it somewhat hard to count the few birds that were migrating, with a very nice Great Skua (Storkjove) being the highlight of the morning!

Great Skua over the beach

Otherwise a Shorelark (Bjerglærke) and a Woodlark (Hedelærke) were nice additions. The ringers had a quiet day too, with thrushes dominating the nets. Plenty of blackbirds so they focussed on weighing them for the harnesses that are planned to be put on the blackbirds for GPS-tracking them.

Redwing!

But we packed up the equipment and went back to the station were we have had a quiet evening to reload after a whole day of no sunshine. Tomorrow looks the same but hopefully we can refind the bunting from today and HOPEFULLY it will turn out to be a black-face bunting (Gråhovedet Værling)

Get ready for this little fella tomorrow!

Highlights from obs:

Great Skua

Woodlark

Shorelark

Jack Snipe 

Caspian Gull 6

Ringing (Kabeltromlen):

Jernspurv - Dunnock: 1

Rødhals - Robin: 1

Solsort - Blackbird: 14

Vindrossel - Redwing: 8

Fuglekonge - Goldcrest: 2

Blåmejse - Blue Tit: 1

Bogfinke - Chaffinch: 2

Total: 29

Link to today's observations from observers in the area