Migration count at the End of the World 3 and Open Freezer day

Today, Amelie, Lisa, Victoria and me went out at the «World of the End 3», close to Grenen tip, to do some migration counts with Knud. Since Amelie, Victoria and myself are still inexprienced doing migration countings, especially at sea, we enjoy going out with Knud, who is a really good teacher !

We saw some Great Skuas (Storkjove) of which one was resting on the beach. It was a very nice sighting, since we usually see them from very far away...

There were a lots of Gannets (Sule), Knud counted almost 400 of them ! The majority were young birds, since most of them were quite darks. Gannets take long time to adcquire a full adult plumage. They remain more or less grey until their 4th calendar year, after which they are usually completely white.

There were also some Kittiwakes (Ride ) roosting on the beach, alongside Common terns (Fjordterne) and some Artic Terns (Havterne ) and  acouple of Sandwich terns (Splitterne).  We counted also a lot of Red-throated diver (Rødstrubet lom ) and some Sanderling (Sandløber).

After 4 hours of counting, we all came back home and had some breakfast there, before going on with our day. Kristina, who had already visited us ealier in July, arrived today. She is doing an internship here at the observatory, in the context of her studies. She will work here until December.



Today was as well the «Open Freezer Day» at the lighthouse. At 2pm, Simon presented some of the frozen birds to the public, which attracted a lot of curious people. Kids are especially interested by the dead birds !

Amelie and me later went to survey the Cormorant colony (Skarv). All the chicks are fledged now, and the cormorants have started leaving the area.

It was probably the last time we will survey the cormorant colony this year !

People : Amandine Doré, Viktoria Mader, Lisa Vergin, Simon S. Christiansen, Amelie Zeller, Kirsten, Kristina Sønderkjær

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