White winged gulls

It was a blustery day today, with strong winds from the south east. Despite that the four younger volunteers were up at Grenen nice and early with our guest Preben, a return visitor from last year, one of the three volunteers at Skagen that saw the Blå glente last summer! They had a good time, and saw a lot of birds.

I was intending to go out to Grenen to makes some adjustments to the nets and perhaps erect the last one, but the wind defeated me and instead I chose to do some migration monitoring from behind the ringing lab. I had a GREAT morning, seeing a lot of the birds that ended up at Grenen and at least one (ringdrossel) that wasn’t. It was good to get my first rørhøg and fiskeørn for the year, the ringdrossel was also a ‘year tick’. When the migration died down I headed back indoors to update some paperwork. The others joined me within the hour and Joakim and Preben went food shopping for the next few days. The wind does not die down and so Anna, Dante, Hebe and I head into the harbour looking for the Iceland gull (hvidvinget måge) which we found and the gråmåge was also present.

When we returned home, we discovered it was Preben’s birthday! He’d made a fantastic meal of vegetarian patties followed by a delicious Swiss cake.

The weather looks the same for the next few days, so apart from splitting into three groups to cover Grenen, North Strand and the Observatory, the planned activities remain the same. .

The glaucous gull (gråmåge)

Iceland gull (hvidvinget måge)