YouTube clip of massive Baltic Sea fall migration (1 Viewer)

[birdmeister]

Hello all,

I stumbled on this yesterday and was amazed. It seems like so few of these types of videos exist out there, showing the migration that's observed out in our oceans and seas. In this clip there are hundreds, if not thousands, of little migrants. Seems like the vast majority are Chaffinch, but someone could surely pick something else out by flight call. I think there's a Blackcap at on the deck at one point, too(?).

This person has a second clip, too, much the same as the first. In the comments below the video they mentioned Sparrowhawks and multiple Rough-legs in nocturnal migration, too! Apparently they were somewhere off the German coast.

 

[Eranou]

That’s amazing!!

 

[Alexander Stöhr]

Hello,

yes amazing and a big thank you to Martin Grimm for sharing this with us. The autor has written something about this special mass migration night in german magines and here:

Club300 Germany

Some pictures of this special night and many more excellent pictures from martin Grimm can be found here: Club300 Germany

 

[Stonefaction]

I tried to see if I could pick out anything among the birds in the video. Possible Skylark(?) on the deck at 25-30 seconds, front left, and perhaps a Siskin (? -based on colour) at 30 seconds diagonally behind and left of the foreground 'Skylark' (also a second Skylark diagonally beyond the possible Siskin). Something else right at the front around 25 seconds that looks quite distinctive and not a Chaffinch, but am undecided as to what it might be (maybe Redwing given the supercilium, though looks to well marked on upper side). Can see Brambling and Redwing in the photos linked by Alexander too.