Skuas and lasagna

Although we were unfortunately not able to do any ringing today, the morning observations had some nice finds! The highlights were definitely the multiple skuas flying incredibly close to shore (in this case all being Arctic Skua (Almindelig Kjove)) as they have in the past few days. We also had decent numbers of the expected shorebirds, including some Red Knots (Islandsk Ryle) and Oystercatchers (Strandskade). 

Somone also reported an Atlantic Puffin (Lunde), although we had no luck finding it.  Hopefully we'll have some luck with them later in the season, we were all really wanted to find that individual.  We may not have had anything as nice as that, we did have a few Razorbills (Alk) which was nice. 

I checked the bog hoping for some nice birds and even though there wasn't anything crazy, it was nice seeing decent numbers of migrants.  

The next few days look like they will have promising conditions for ringing so hopefully we'll have some great birds to share for the blog! 

To wrap up a wonderful day at the bird observatory, Louis cooked some incredible lasagna for us!