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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Sledging and birding - 23/12/09

Lots of snow overnight but warmer today. Plenty of redwings about in the garden this morning, with a flock of 20 overhead at one point. Took Ed and Kirsty and the kids out sledging at Salomonhög in the morning to get out of Mrs B's way whilst she cooked the Christmas ham. Mmmm...Christmas ham. A few redwing over here too. The thaw today did not help with the construction of our 'Ray Mears' snow shelter, the roof will have to wait for sub-zero temperatures.

In the afternoon Ed and I headed out to deliver a ham to the in-laws and took the opportunity to slide past Sandön and Rönnen. Amazingly we failed to turn up a white-tailed eagle! Sandön was icy and relatively bird-free, although we did hear a few bearded tits and a single frozen-looking dunlin was picking about. Rönnen was next and we hoped to find a gyr falcon coming into roost but it was not to be. We did get two Slavonian grebes though (really scarce at the moment). On the way home we had more redwing (20) and a goshawk (1) at Södra Utmarken.

Is the gyr falcon roosting at Rönnen? Tomorrow morning we hope to find out.

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