Took the family out to Ripagården. The heavy snow of the last 36 hours have transformed the landscape yet again. Still a little light snow falling in the morning as I peeled off for another crack at the bunting flock. The small part of the flock by the road quickly surrendered three snow buntings, 20 reed buntings and a group of six skylark. No sign of any linnets today but patient, thorough searching eventually produced a Lapland bunting on the deck. Mega!
Walked down the hill to meet back up with the crew. They were enjoying the snow and ice as usual and had had a close encounter with a grey heron. The harbour area held little grebe (1), coot (29), white-tailed eagle (1) and bullfinch (2).
After lunch I took Numbers 1 & 2 down to Båstad to feed the ducks. Offshore a reasonable selection of wildfowl including; little grebe (4), long-tailed duck (7), velvet scoter (25) and common scoter (75). The whooper swan flock has got to 44. On the way home we stopped off at Axeltorpsravinen, hoping for dipper, but we had to make do with five long-tailed tits (it took me until August to find them last year!).
Nice one !! Lap bunts are MEGA !!
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