Thursday, May 31, 2007 - River Warbler + bonus!
Yes, I got the River Warbler today! It sat in the reeds between a bicycle path and the highway. Tried to tape the song but it was too disturbed by traffic, Marsh Warblers and a very energetic Thrush Nightingale. As i donned my backpack and marched off to the excavation site (Had to be dropped off 3 kilometers away for the Warbler) i got a bonus. Life tick number two in less than twenty minutes presented itself in the form of a startled Honey Buzzard in the underbrush beside the road. Needed some thinking to ID it though, so I wasn't absolutely sure until I got home and saw another report of Honey Buzzard from about the same location and the same time.
Later on my little walk, I took a bad turn and strolled out of Ytterby heading north instead of west. The walk back to Ytterby and the site took an extra hour. But on the other hand I saw a beautiful female Green Woodpecker sitting on the railway-track halfway between Ytterby and the site.
Tomorrow there might be time for birding, but mainly we will start building another shelter at the western point of Hönö in the northern archipelago.
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Thursday, May 31, 2007 - Irritating Buzzard |
| Posted by Elon |
| Grrr. We saw that raptor too, at a distance though so neither me or LA could identify it properly. We met two other birders who said it was a Honey Buzzard, but since we both were unsure we missed that year-tick... Irritating. And no Little Egret at Tofta kile either. Nice River Warbler though. |
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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 will attempt to get to 250 in 2008. A lot harder!
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