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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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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