Tons of seagulls

Today we started as usual with the migration count at sunrise (5 a.m.). It was a beautiful start of the day with good weather conditions. The wind came from the southwest. Especially, we focused on counting the wader migrations. We had for example 85 Bar-tailed Godwits, 53 Red Knots, 124 Dunlins, 18 Eurasian Oystercatchers during the standard counting time of 3 hours. Also worth mentioning are the many seagulls migrating or resting on the beach. Henrik has counted more than 1000 Black-headed Gulls. Also impressive was an arctic skua (one of my favorite birds), which has been observed for two days.

Théo (right), Henrik (left), Me (center)

After the standard count time Henrik took a walk at the beach. He could observe a Curlew Sandpiper, the first for this season.

A Curlew Sandpiper in a group of Dunlins. (picture: Henrik)

All in all not a bad day.

People at the station: Théo, Henrik, Maxim, Kai