Terrible grey weather with occasional showers put birds back on the menu this morning. Checked out Klarningen for an hour after breakfast. Plenty of yellow wagtails (45+) and tree pipits (30+) on the move this morning, and at one point I heard crossbill calling. Quite a few birds have dropped out too with whinchat (8), wheatear (6) and red-backed shrike (1K) decorating the posts and wires. The wetland itself was rather quiet although a flock of 8 shoveler was my best total to date at Klarningen. Also here a flock of ten ruff and 4 snipe.
In the afternoon I went out to Ripagården to look again for two-barred crossbills. The woodland here was rather quiet but the beach produced a nice little stint, seven common sandpipers and a greenshank.
Torekov rev provided it's usual slow-burn. Seemingly deserted, it eventually produced a respectable diversity of waders; little ringed plover (1), ringed plover (7), golden plover (35), knot (2), little stint (1), Temminck's stint (1), dunlin (21), curlew (1), common sandpiper (1), greenshank (2) and redshank (2).
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