Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - Brudarebacken by night

I'm disrupting the chronology slightly now. Sunday was too interesting not to :)

Morning trip to Hönö. Weather and visibility bad but a bunch of year ticks none the less. The new scope was really put to the test and performed rather good. I managed to pick out male and female velvet scoters more than over more than a kilometer in drizzle and slightly foggy conditions. Fun observations were fishing Red-throated Divers in summer plumage and an Arctic Skua/Parasitic Jaeger migrating north.

In the evening I went to Brudarebacken to help setting nets for delousing. Caught nothing but as night fell we saw four Ring Ouzels far away, some Woodcocks patrolling and heard three Tawny Owls, two of which made a more seldom heard tremolo noise, commonly known as the xylophone trill, which can only be heard about 50 meters away.