Saturday, May 26, 2007 - Excellent day in Halland
At the first stop on the way to Getterön, the first bird I spotted was a life-tick. Pied Avocet. Nice! It's not exactly a rare species, but they live in distinctly limited areas. Other than the avocets not much of a thrill there. The water level is quite high right now, so waders smaller than redshank had probably moved on already.
 Pied Avocet.
Next stop gave nice observations of Common Redstart, Linnet, Dunnock and new life-tick Little Tern. (It was fishing all the time, so no photo). Many Lapwings, Oystercatchers, Redshanks, Pied Avocets and some Greenshanks and Wood Sandpipers.
On the way to the hide at Getterön nature center I got life tick three for the day. A very cooperative Sedge Warbler climbed up a reed and posed for several minutes.
 Sedge Warbler
In the basin there were thousands of Black-headed Gull and Greylag Goose. There were also Gadwall, Spoonbill, Great Crested Grebe, Curlew and Life tick number four the day; Black-tailed Godwit. No photo of them either, since they were barely identifyable with 20x magnification, which means extremely blurry pictures with my beaten and dented camera, cheap scope and wobbly tripod... In the hide there were two Barn Swallows nesting.
 Barn Swallow. Didn't mean to use flash but forgot to turn it off...
Rounded up the visit with coffee, muffin and drooling over new scopes at the center. Pheasant, Thrush Nightingale and Common Whitethroat could be heard from the parking lot.
On the way home we stopped by a good spot for Great Reed Warbler and Savi's Warbler, but they where nowhere to be heard. Two Corn Crakes, three Ospreys and singing Whinchats was nice compensation though. All in all, we saw at least 66 species in about six hours. Nice result considering that we weren't trying very hard :)
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Saturday, May 26, 2007 - Excellent day in Halland |
| Posted by Elon |
| Yeah, I liked today's result too. But, typically, a moment ago I got an alert about a Little Egret which has been seen in Båtafjorden during the day... if we had chosen to stop by there AFTER Getterön then we might have seen it... another "unconscious" lifer-dip for the both of us... Well, that's life. Nice blog you've got yourself here! |
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Sunday, May 27, 2007 - re: |
| Posted by oskila |
| Yeah. Damn frustrating. Probably the same Little Egret that headed north over nearby Vallda Sandö the day before... |
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26 year old birder from Gothenburg, Sweden.
My goal for 2007 was get above 200 life-ticks. I managed 215 and the goal for 2008 was to get to 250. Right now it looks like I might get to 250 year ticks which is of course even better.
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• 264: Sooty Shearwater
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