A morning in Hirtshals

The day dawned wet and wild once again, so we chose to go and see a very special bird, one of the last crested larks in Denmark. Mark drove Daniel, Hanne and I to meet up with Morten Christensen in Hirtshals, but before the latter had arrived we’d already seen the crested lark and a wheatear.

The rain picked up at this point but we continued, heading down to a pool for wading birds and gulls. There we managed to pick up knot, dunlin, turnstone, Arctic and common tern and a few other birds for Mark’s Danish list and knot was a new Danish bird for me. We left Morten about to search through an enormous flock of gulls for some Caspian and yellow legged among them. We tried for black throated divers on the way back to Skagen’s but couldn’t find any at the known site for them.

Once we returned home, Mark and I went shopping for dinner. Mark makes a nice curry for dinner, compete with vegetarian chicken pieces, before he and Daniel go out to help Simon with a toad watching evening.

Crested Lark

Kittiwake