Oh how we love westerlies

Observations:

After a few days at home, I was really looking forward to seeing some birds today. Again, we had western winds, so I got a calm day back in action. Rain hit me sporadically on the post today, where I think I scrambled together 2 hours that could count as standardized. Very few birds today, but it was nice to get back to my Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus), 184 today; Red-throated Loons (Gavia stellata), 38 today; and 2 Arctic Skuas (Stercorarius parasiticus). One came really well in extremely good light, really showing off its "white commas" juxtaposed against an otherwise dark morph. Always a favorite bird of mine.

Todays observations:

Ringing:

Today we only had a few rounds of ringing before the rain hit, although in that time we managed to catch a few birds.  In the lighthouse Alba had one recapture Robin (rødhals) while in the station we had 4 new Blackcap (Munk).  Amongst those Blackcap, there were multiple young first cycle males who had a really nice contrast in the crown!