From the start it was quiet.  And quiet it remained.  Few birds in the garden, so consequently few birds in the nets.  The only birds flitting around in any notable numbers were goldfinch and they are stubbonly staying out of the nets.

So we, Henrik and Chris, took Gert, a regular visitor and volunteer here, up on his offer to go on a little birding trip to Lolland.  Precisely we visited the Maribo Lakes.  For Chris this was a fine opportunity to see another part of Denmark.  And for all three of us it was a grand afternoon's birdwatching.  The highlights were black swarms of coot floating across the lakes with mallard, gadwall and good numbers of pochard, mixed in amongst them.  Several raptors were seen, including several white-tailed eagles presumably from the local breeding population.  For all of us the best moment was when we saw a white-tailed eagle, osprey and a black-kite in the same binocular view - that does not happen often.  Wonderful!  And thank-you Gert.

And tomorrow, as the cliche goes is another day but we suspect, hopefully wrongly, that it will be another quiet day; a change in wind direction is required.

People at the station: Henrik Jørgensen and Chris Sharp