Sunday, April 20, 2008 - Lovely lovely Brudarebacken
Yesterday we decided to go to Brudarebacken this morning. Went at eight o' clock-ish and weather looked promising save for a cloud bank coming from east.
The first hour didn't give anything unusual so I took some 40 pictures of Skylarks.
 Skylark (Alauda arvensis)
A bit after nine a Ring Ouzel suddenly appeared and decided to have a sit down in a tree east of the summit. A while later, a Lapland Bunting (life tick) flew around us once and then landed out of sight . The other gentlemen decided to go look for it, but I chose to stay and guard the scopes and watched a Kestrel working it's way north over the city. I then noticed another bird seemingly a raptor, going the same way, soon it was an abvious falcon and judging from the difference in size it was a Merlin (life tick 2). By the time the others were back it was long gone, but I'm certain it really was a Merlin, despite never having seen one before.
Perhaps an hour later both the Ring Ouzel and the Lapland Bunting flew past once more. Very nice!
We also had a good number of Common Buzzards and Sparrowhawk. The weather also successively got better with more sun and less wind. Spring was really in the air. A good day at Brudarebacken!
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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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