Hello from a Grey Seal

Observation:

The first sighting was of a grey seal [gråsæl] resting in the waves, in front of my telescope – perhaps to say hello and wish me good luck?-
But the first two hours were fairly quiet and I was on my own. Yet, somehow, the last hour turned out to be good!
Numerous groups of common and arctic terns [fjordterne/havterne] flew past behind and in front of the reef. And during the last 10 minutes, I spotted a pale-morph arctic skua [almindelig kjove] heading north, then chasing a small tern, then it turned out it was being chased away itself by a herring gull !
Meanwhile, two fins broke the surface of the waves… belonging to two porpoise whales [marsvin]! It had been a long time since I’d seen any. We used to see far more of them at the start of the season from the automn spot.

Highlights of the day : 
Common tern/arctic tern [fjordterne/havterne] - 584
Parasitic Jaeger - Arctic skua [almindelig kjove] - 1 pale morph
Northern gannet [sule] - 101

Todays observations can be seen here.

Ringing:

Redpoll "Lille Gråsisken". Picture by Alix.

There was not so much happening in the gardens today. We caught another Woodpigeon "Ringdue", two Redpolls "Lille Gråsisken"and the usual ones, but only few of them. During the mornig, Morten went to town to send the bloodsamples to Copenhagen. 

Yellowhammer "Gulspurv", picture by Hanelie.

Little tern project:

There were sadly no observations this morning due to the military training.

Moths of the day:

Today we had slightly more species. In total 13 different species and one new for the location: the Golden-rod Pug (Gyldenrisdværgmåler, see picture). A rather inconspicuous species. In addition I have added a picture of the Small Chocolate-tip (Chocoladeplet).

Small Chocolate-tip (Chocoladeplet) and Golden-rod Pug (Gyldenrisdværgmåler)

At the station : Robert Luttik, Hanelie Sidhu, Clara Delahaye, Jorn de Jong, Alix Bortolussi, Morten Jenrich Hansen, Bent & co (his friends).