The first skua of the season at Blåvand !

Observation: 

What a freezing morning! We’ve almost turned into icicles despite the shy rays of sunshine.
Fortunately, we managed to survive long enough to spot the first skua [Almindelig Kjove] of the season, a magnificent adult in the dark morph !
There were also quite a lot of gannets, nine adults in total !

Todays observations can be seen here.

Ringing:

Bullfinch male and female/ Dompap han og hun. Picture by Morgan.

Today, ringing was back to what it was before: A lot of recaptures, the same number of recaps as of new birds. But we had some nice ones: Three Bullfinches “Dompap”, a Siskin “Grønsisken”, a recapture Tree Sparrow “Skovspurv” that I ringed last March and a nice male Black Redstart “Husrødstjert”. After ringing, we exchanged a net, which had a large hole just where it was attached to the top line, which would have been difficult to mend.

In the early evening Rose arrived from Germany. We hope she brought some birds from a bit further south with her. But it looks like the coming days, we won´t see much of them in the nets, as it looks like we will have a very windy easter… Now, the rain is already drumming against our windows…

At the station: Thomas Kristiansen, Bent Jacobsen, David Manstrup, Clara Delahaye, Morgan Barmer, Rosemary Fricke, Hanelie Sidhu and Karin