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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

One swallow...

Appalling weather today, strong winds from the south-west, mist and occasional drizzle. I spent a miserable hour at Ranarpsstrand in the morning, which produced very little, apart from a single redshank and a lesser black-backed gull. On the way home though I stopped off at Lindab for a moorhen (1) year-tick. Nice!

In the afternoon the kids and I had a quick look at Klarningen. We were greeted with a splendid flock of 32 cranes and a single barn swallow - another year-tick and my earliest by a whole week! That was the best of it really, though a flock of 19 eider scudding past were fun. Wigeon numbers have built to 14, teal are stable and three shoveler remain. Waders: oystercatcher (3), curlew (1), redshank (5) and ringed plover (4). More windy weather from the west on the way for the next two days...

1 comment:

  1. Rather nice in Norwich today 23 C, sunny and Magnolia trees in full flower. Weathers set fair through to the end of the weekend at least.

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