The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind...

Vejr: direction - NV (314); speed - 10 m/s; cloud cover - 4/8; visibility - 18+ km; temperature - 14.9°C

Well, the weather forecast did not look too good in the morning but being the eager observers we are, Henrik K, Henrik, Jimmy, Sven and me were looking for some birds on the shore again. For many species, migration was rather quiet, but on the other hand, we had some very nice observations again. We counted over 500 Gannets hunting just outside the reef again and Common Scoters were close to the shore (unfortunately in the military area, which was inaccessible by that time). A little more "exciting", was an adult Yellow-Legged Gull, which, of course, Henrik K spotted. Gulls in general were good yesterday, I counted the highest number of Herring Gulls since I am here (1.275 which is still not much for many of you probably, but for me, it's exciting as these numbers don't show up in Austria at all). Henrik K raised the stack with a subadult Little Gull passingby outside the reef. I also found a Guillimot in the morning (my first one here) and we also saw an Osprey,but yesterday, Jimmy hit the jackpot. He found another Sabine's Gull, an immature bird too. It passed by fastly but luckily, all the people at the counting station at that time, saw it.

We didn't ring any birds yesterday, the nets stayed closed.

ps: I am really sorry for those who read the blog late in the evening and may have realised, that I just didn't write it in the evening anymore. I just couldn'tmake it yesterday, which is why I upload it this morning, sorry for the trouble.

See you soon, Christian