Went down to Kattvik between 0900 and 1130 with Number 2, who behaved impeccably, playing in the car and eating my lunch (as usual). Met up here with Ulf Ståhle and we had a busy seawatch. Red-throated divers were streaming out of the bay first thing with the eventual total hitting 2021 the easy highlight of a pleasant, well-lit seawatch! We sadly missed the great northern diver that went through in the throng during the first half hour... Other highlights were red-necked grebe (1 west), slavonian grebe (7 west), fulmar (1 west and my only year-tick of the session), gannet (30 west), pomarine skua (1) and at least 75 kittiwakes, including up to 25 birds feeding right in front of us. Razorbills and guillemots were going past (perhaps 300 in total) but we could not pick out any other auks. The chiffchaff was still grubbing about in the trees here this morning.
After picking up Number 1 from school, we all headed for a short session at Klarningen before continuing on with our taxi duties. First bird was superb and big 2K female peregrine sitting on a fence post. Klarningen had a big flock of geese (120 Canada and 85 greylag) that did not tolerate our arrival. Mallard have built to 54 and the duck flock included ten tufted duck and four wigeon today. A female hen harrier quartered the grassland and a flock of 41 starling swept by. It was time to go.
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