Trækket på Odden: The pond was partially frozen this morning, which was good indicator of how much it will freeze at the tip... It started slowly in the first hour, with mostly (Common scoters), (Red-breasted mergansers) and Stor skallesluger (Red-throated divers). After two hours, we had seen around 400 birds, which is not a huge number, but still more than in the five hours of yesterday.

It's amazing to see such large numbers of Divers migrating, as well as a few Lille skallesluger (Smew). We have these species in France, but they are wintering. But I must say that to see a Smew in migration, you have to earn it ! It was cold, cold, cold !

Note the nice number of geese this morning, with three species: Barnacle, Greylag and Bean Geese. We saw 67 of the last one, the subspecies Anser fabalis rossicus, all in the last hour.

The short neck is one of the main criteria used to distinguish subspecies tundra from taiga, Seadgås (Tundra bean geese) Foto : Théophile Fontaine

We were surprised to see gulls everywhere over the sea, mostly herring, common and black-headed gulls. Several of them were probably attracted by all the ploughed fields in the area over the past few days.

We finished the morning having seen a little over 900 birds from 39 species, which is not bad ! There were more than 100 Rødstrubet lom (Red-throated diver), three Sule (Gannets) and an hour of full sunshine! (which was perhaps the best thing about the day).

The ringing: The weather this afternoon was really nice with some sunshine and no wind, so I decided to try one last time for the Gråsisken (redpolls), Grønsisken (siskins), Silkehale (waxwings) and Lille Korsnæb (crossbills). It didn't work particularly well, but the number of species wasn't too bad given the low number of birds! Eleven birds from seven species, including one beautiful adult male siskin and a nice young female brambling.

Grønsisken (siskin) Foto : Théophile Fontaine

Folk på stationen: Théophile Fontaine, Ole Friis Larsen