Sandwich tern [splitterne] migration !

A wonderful sunrise at Blåvand ! By Clara

Observation : 

This morning was Jorn’s first day of fieldwork – he’s just arrived yesterday from the Netherlands!
He’ll be staying at the station for two months to help with the little tern [dværgterne] breeding monitoring project. 

As well as discovering the most common species found here – common scoters [sortand], red-throated loons [rødstrubet Lom], and so on – he was lucky enough to see the largest migration of sandwich terns [splitterne] of the season for now. We counted 97 of them in three hours, and nine more resting on the beach. It was so cool to see so many terns, especially on Jorn’s first day!


Clara spotting some nice birds, picture by Jorn

Todays observations can be seen here. 

Ringing :


At the station: Clara Delahaye, Rosemary Frikke, Jorn De Jong, Hanelie Sidhu and Karin