Day out with the kids today. We went exploring around the nearby lakes (Västersjön and Rössjön). Heard wood warbler nearby but failed to find the breeding black-throated divers on Rössjön. The kids had a great time paddling in the decidely cool water of the lake and eating cakes.
On the way home the avian highlight of the day appeared in the form of nine migrating cranes in Grevie. On close inspection they proved to have been joined in the thermal they were riding by a female hen harrier. They all crossed the ridge well west of our house and this probably explains why the garden has been quiet this month. The incredible warm weather means that soaring birds are not being funneled through the low points along the ridge. Shame, would have liked hen harrier on the garden list.
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