End of an era . .

The run of good weather continues, much to the joy of tourists and the lament of ringers and birders. Michele and I once again flogged the dead horse by attempting to do some ringing. However, despite the sunny weather the wind was extremely strong (sadly not from the right direction) and we couldn’t open all the nets, and in fact ended up closing most of the. Hence the only bird we caught was on the opening round, a blackbird. At least this time we weren’t missing any good birds on Grenen!

Whilst we were engaged in this optimistic futility, Morten was enjoying his last survey of the cormorant colony. Plenty more chicks were visible this time around and the foxes predation seems to have slowed considerably, so hopefully more may fledge this year. No sign of the garganey or tufted ducks today, though it was incredibly windy so perhaps they were elsewhere today.

After lunch, Michele and I assisted Mikael Ancher in clearing the ground and setting up another net at the CES site. Plenty of dragonflies out there, and some juvenile coot. A honey buzzard flew close overhead.

Once we returned, we headed down to the café for Morten’s leaving dinner, many thanks Morten for the generous meal. We were joined by Flemming from the nature centre and Thomas (our guest) and sat outside, enjoying the wonderful meal and the glorious sunshine over Kattegat. Then it was back to the Obs accommodation for a shuffle ball tournament, which Morten comfortably won, thrashing all of us (even Simon) . A nice evening to end 3 years of work at Skagen for him.

Farvel Morten!