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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Day out with the kids

Took the kids out for a morning's birding at Sandön and Rönnen, well they played boisterously around me and I did the birding. 'We' had hoped to re-connect with the green-winged teal and/or the Terek but it was not to be. Neither were seen yesterday but they may still be about.

Sandön was mostly underwater and it was overcast, cool and breezy. Not much doing but the regular osprey was hunting, the kids found an oystercatcher nest and migrant waders were represented by three dunlin and a common sandpiper.

We spent nearly three hours at Rönnen and there were more birds here. A gathering of 43 avocet was impressive. A lone summer-plumaged adult little gull looked rather smart out on the mud. Fifteen teal were intently examined, they are slipping quietly into eclipse, so the clock is ticking for finding the green-winged again... Three shoveler looked equally unpleasant. Migrant waders stole the show for me as usual though (despite the absence of the Terek); dunlin (25), ruff (2), whimbrel (1), spotted redshank (3), greenshank (1), green sandpiper (1), wood sandpiper (9) and common sandpiper (2).

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