Mass migration

Fantastic day! Good weather and lots of birds. The day started with lots of long-tailed ducks and divers. In one hour over 5000 long-tailed and 500 divers was counted. At nine o'clock the geese were starting to move, and in three hours, between ten and one, 50 000 barnacles had passed!

Over 100.000 waterfowls was counted today!

Notes from the cape:

divers 1593 (745 black-throated, 591 red-throated and 257 divers sp.)

red-necked grebe 19

great crested grebe 40

bewick's swan 2

greater white-fronted 30

brent 754

barnacle 70906!

wigeon 816

pintail 205

tufted duck 1347

scaup 883

long-tailed duck 20994

common scoter 407

velvet scoter 294

goldeneye 451

smew 7

merganser 670

pomarine skua 1 3cy?

lesser black-backed gull 2

Now hoping for more tomorrow...