Its wet and raining, off to the museum we go!

Observation
Today Henrik and Åge joined us for the morning observation. So Åge, Gustav, Henrik and I (Sverre) endured the morning wind with 8 meters per second from south-southeast. Today was not the most eventful of mornings, but among ourfavorite moments was 2 canadien geese, 1 brant goose (knortegås), and three ravens going south. The ravens was a nice surprise as we do not have them everyday, especially not three at the same time. Usually they come as a pair. They were quite far away, but still a nice sight. We were however not bored as we had plenty of wigeons to count! Matter of fact close to a thousand wigeons and roughly 150 pintails! In total we had 49 species today. Not bad at all:)

After the standard three hours of observation, the wind picked up and it started raining a bit. So Gustav, Mathilde, Lise and i decided to go to the Tirpitz museum a couple of kilometers from here. A wonderful museum with exhibits about the local area on the westcoast, the bunkers in Blåvand and the second world war as well as a nice exhibit about amber. Definitely worth a visit:)

- Sverre looking like a true amber-huntsman. The local attire and everything
- SDP

Ringmærkning

What we expected to a rainy morning turned out to be a quite pleasent start of the day! As the wind and the sun started to pick up, however, the bird numbers declined in comparison to yesterday. This made for a great opportunity have a good look at every bird and compare individuals of the same species, like the garden warbler, who tends to be a challenge to age for new ringers! Another curious observation were the feet of a young male blackcap that seemed to have some sort of bumble foot. The more individuals of the same species we get, the more interesting anomalies and variations start to appear!

- LUA

Folk på stationen: Sverre Dahl Porsgaard, Mathilde Lundt Larsen, Lua Koplin, Lise Mastrup, Gustav Brandt Jelert