An active day!

The weather was quite good this morning, and so I had the nets open for an hour or so. The majority of birds caught were redpoll but I did get another fresh great tit, which was nice. I’ve been hearing a lot about red kites being seen in Skagen that I haven’t seen yet, so I did a brief bit of raptor watching from the side of the ringing lab. Didn’t see any red kites, but an odd buzzard and a good movement of jackdaws. The fog then moved in rapidly putting an end to my raptor searching.

I then sat in the birders club continuing to fine tune the video, whilst also making myself available to questions from the few visitors coming in. A couple from Norway came in and told me that there was a small seal up at Grenen. My interest piqued, I had an enjoyable hour and a half birding up to Grenen and back, seeing a razorbill, and a few other species, but no live seal. There was a dead grey seal almost covered by sand, and that was interesting as I’d never been so close to one before. I also found an interesting feather on the beach, which may be from a woodcock, which would be a fantastic find!

After dinner I created a new photo archive folder for 2019 (not so easy as I had to spell Danish, which required copying it all down on paper before transferring to the computer). Whilst I was doing this I got a message from Flemming saying he’d found a red throated diver with some fishing line caught round it in the harbour. We resolved to try and catch it and cut the line off tomorrow.

Interesting feather, probable woodcock (skovsneppe)

A grey seal on the beach, fast becoming a part of the beach . .