Persistence is Key

We were up again today well before the sun appeared on the horizon. As predicted, the sun lost the battle with the clouds and it turned into another windy cloudy day. The weather did not look too good but the atmosphere was good so everyone was looking forward to a day at World's End I.

Pushup break to keep warm! But the count must continue!

At sea there were decent numbers of scoter's, Gannet's (sule), Red-throated diver's (Rødstrubet lom), Black-legged Kittiwake’s (Ride) flying. The surprise of the day today came in the form of a Horned Lark (Bjerglærke) unfortunately only Lucas saw it but it is a nice new species for the counts.

One of the local amphibians

I counted the birds that came from inland so mainly the passerines, raptor's and waterfowl. But with a shortage of birds to count i invented the migration watch workout. It is very good for exercising once in a while and is recommended against the cold (of course, all species are still counted and the rest take your species during the workout). So there are several exercises you can do such as; the scan and Squat, the binocular-check push up, the scope bicep curl.

When returning to the lighthouse found several amphibians such as moorfrog (Spidssnudet frø) and Smooth Newt (Lille vandsalamander). Once back at the station, Simon picked us up for a trip into the village to buy new bikes. We rode back by bike and this time the very strong south-westerly wind played in our favour! Even on a little too small bike, we flew back to our station.
All ready to go back counting tomorrow morning!

Hightligts from the observations:

Horned Lark (Bjerglærke)1

Black Throated Diver (Sortstrubet Lom) 1

Link to the observation in Dofbasen in the Skagen area

Sum of the Raptors in the area based on observations typed into Dofbasen.

People: Lucas Corneliussen, Simon Sigaard Christiansen, Cora Köberle, Janna Ouedraogo, Roman Spilldooren.