Golden Day with Golden Eagle

Today I woke up to my first day here at Skagen Fuglestation. Cora, Rasmus, and I started around 6 AM at World's End 3 to count the migrating birds. It was a very good day! We saw many nice migrating shorebirds like Guillemot (Tejst), Arctic Skua (Almindelig Kjove), 142 Fulmars (Mallemuk) and many other cool species. Lucas, Chris and Tue started a bit earlier at Kabeltromlen and they ringend 35 birds this morning. At 09:08 AM, Lucas saw a Golden Eagle (Kongeørn) from Kabeltromlen, and just a few seconds later we all got a great view of it. It was a lifer for Cora and me, so the volunteers can look forward to eating a lot of backed stuff! 

Golden Eagle 3K over Grenen!

But that wasn’t the only highlight of the day. Just a few minutes later, we heard a report of a Horned Grebe (Nordisk lappedykker), which was close enough to be seen from World's End 3. It was such a beautiful bird, already in breeding plumage. Another lifer for Cora, congrats!

After the migration count, we went back to the station except for Cora and me. We headed out to Nordstrand to get a better look at the Glaucous Gull. After that, we also returned to the station and relaxed a bit.

Rasmus was still out with his parents and he randomly med the famous Danish musician Kandis Johnny!

Later in the afternoon, there was a report of a Black-winged Kite on Zello and we all tried to spot it, but unfortunately, it didn’t fly that far north. But who knows, maybe we’ll see it tomorrow. We all hope so!

Ringing (Kabeltromlen):

Gransanger 15

Fuglekonge 1

Rødhals 4

Gærdesmutte 2

Bogfinke 1

Munk 4

Singdrossel 5

Vindrossel 3 

Total: 35

Highlights from the observations:

Horned Grebe (Nordisk lappedykker) in breeding plumage - 1

Glaucous Gull (Gråmåge) -1

Golden Eagle (Kongeørn) - 1

Guillemot (Tejst) - 2

Fulmar (Mallemuk) -142

Arctic Skua (Almindelig Kjove) - 1

Today’s observations in Dofbasen from observers in the area

People:  Lucas Corneliussen, Rasmus Matthiesen-Juhl, Cora Köberle, Christopher Moser-Purdy, Tue Baaner, Simon Sigaard Christiansen, Knud Pedersen, Mio Brix and Linda & Jeppe Rørbæk.