All good things come to an end...

Vejr: direction - SV (234); speed - 9m/s; cloud cover - 8/8; visibility - 18+ km

Today was not as windy as we expected, however, we still decided a new (at least to me) location, one of the German bunkers within the military area. While Henrik and Martin arrived there a little before sunrise, Jimmy and me arrived around 6:45. I was amazed by how good the light was and we had some very nice sights, including a close Merlin, close Guillemot and many good (although short) observations of Waders and Common Scoters. Especially compared to yesterday, migration was quite slow today, but as usual, the climate (meaning the people) was very nice, while the real climate could have ben better (but also a lot worse) :).

The reason for this slightly depressed title is, because unfortunately, it is my last full day in Blåvand today (the rest of this post is unrelated to today's sightings, just saying goodbye, so if you are not interested in these lines, just directly jump to the pictures please :) ). It has been an amazing time, but definitely ran by way too fast. I learned such an astonishing load of new, interesting stuff about migration, identification and phenology of seabirds and waders, and cannot wait to use this knowledge in the field in Austria (hoping to be more compfortable with waders, ducks and skuas at distance now). In the last 4 weeks, I have seen 141 species of bird (between Tipperne and Langli), three of which were completely new to me! Thank you very much for all your positive feedback about this blog, I really hope you like the following goodbye-pictures:

Today's View:


Picture taken a few days ago, but a perfect goodbye picture, I guess :)


All the best for the future, Christian out :)