Secretarybird - nice legs.Game of two halves today, with a morning out with the kids at Torekov and then a last hour dash out to Öllövstrand with the entire family.
Torekov rev was busy this morning with at least eight purple sandpipers feeding avidly and hard to count (other observers with fewer children counted up to 12 during the day). One was orange leg-flagged, but I could not read the code, ringed this autumn in Sørkappøya, Svalbard! Also here dunlin (2) and redshank (10). The recent storm has replenished the weed on the beach and a big flock of pipits was making use of it when we arrived. Just had time to find a single water pipit, before a 1K sparrowhawk dived in and it all went to hell. We are in weird limbo at the moment, the weather is so mild that none of the normal wintering birds are here in any numbers, but the autumn stuff is long gone. This water pipit is only the second or third of the season on the patch. Offshore a few seaduck were noted; long-tailed duck (1), velvet scoter (1) and common scoter (2). The woods produced nine flighty crossbills.
Washed windows in the afternoon and was rewarded with four hawfinch over the garden.
The last gasp afternoon session at Öllövstrand was fairly quiet. A fantastic male hen harrier stole the show right at the start. The only other birds of note were three golden plover over north.
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