Log book · complete
Every sheet kept for this coast, newest first. The earliest one worth typing up is from18 April 2024; the pages before that are in a drawer and mostly weather-damaged.
05
Summer
The spit
Autumn passage starts earlier than it feels: honey buzzards and harriers over the dune ridge, wheatears on the sand, and how the ferry decides the day.
Typed up 6 Sept 2026 · 4 parts
7 min
04
Winter
Winter
What a hard January does to the lagoon and the sea off Klaipėda: where the open water goes, what collects along the edge of the ice, and how to watch it.
Typed up 14 Mar 2026 · 4 parts
8 min
03
Summer
Reedbeds
Three summers of early starts in the delta reedbeds: what sings before four in the morning, how far a bittern carries, and why I stopped using the engine.
Typed up 8 Sept 2025 · 4 parts
6 min
02
Autumn
Migration
How a morning of visible migration is actually counted at the cape: flock size, direction, the three hours that matter, and the totals I no longer trust.
Typed up 18 Feb 2025 · 4 parts
9 min
01
Spring
Delta
What the April flood does to the delta polders, and how to read the edge of the water for cranes, geese, ruff and the first terns of the year.
Typed up 2 Jun 2024 · 4 parts
7 min
Sheets are not rewritten once they are in the book. Where a later entry contradicts an earlier one, both stay and the later one says which it replaces; the reasoning is in thenotes on how the log is kept.