Saturday, April 19, 2008 - Lake Hornborga
Bus trip to Lake Hornborga, a veritable drive-in restaurant for Common Cranes heading for the rest of Scandinavia. At this time of year, however, only a few thousand are still there.
 Common Crane (Grus grus)
Embarked at 05:30 in the morning. Unholy!
The first life tick for the trip was White-fronted Goose. Also saw a Pink-footed one, but that wasn't even year-tick :)
 Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus)
Sadly most of us missed both the ducks that were a bit of a main event; American Wigeon and Ferruginous Duck. Two or three people who happened to still be at the tower got to see the "fudgie", but with the wigeon we were at the right locale but 200 meters away behind a hill...
 House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
Life tick two was Eagle-owl in the old limestone quarry outside Skövde, 30 minutes away from the lake.
 Eurasian Eagle-owl (Bubo bubo) Photographed with SLR through scope.
All in all a nice trip with good weather, two lifers and sixteen year ticks, but the foreign ducks were no fun at all :)
 Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps grisegena)
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About Me
27 year old birder from Gothenburg, Sweden.
Last year we twitched for year ticks. I ended up with 250 which is more than I had lifers when the year started. This year I'll go fairly easy on the year ticks (Though anything under 200 is shameful) but will instead aim for 300 life ticks in Sweden. A task and a half probably...
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Last ticks
• 280: Two-barred Crossbill
• 279: Atlantic Puffin
• 278: Little Egret
• 277: Rosy Starling
• 276: Ring-necked Duck
• 275: Red-footed Falcon
• 274: Black Grouse
• 273: Steller's Eider
• 272: Water pipit
• 271: Eurasian Pygmy Owl
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