Another day out in the field with the family, more blue sky and sunshine. Kicked off at Torekov sewage works, which produced some great birds. The best was a crane, which was circling out to sea on our arrival before drifting off slowly south, perhaps the first in NW Skåne this year (?). Also here teal (7), smew (1 female), grey partridge (2), lapwing (1) and grey wagtail (1). Walking south to Påarps Mal, we had lunch in the lee of a pillbox and spotted a few things on the sea. Three red-necked grebes were new in (no doubt) and just one Slavonian grebe underlined how scarce this species has been in Bjäre this winter. Out on Hallands Väderö, all the birds got up as two white-tailed eagles flew about a bit.
Moving to the harbour produced a couple of black guillemots and four goosander. A long-range effort looking over to the rev from here secured shelduck (29), velvet scoter (1, scarce at the moment), coot (9), oystercatcher (16) and redshank (1, very scarce at the moment). Our last port of call was Rammsjöstrand, because yesterday I had noticed from Glimminge that the eider flock was building up nicely. Last year there was a king eider here so it seemed like a good idea to check the flock. At least 650 eider just offshore which was nice but plenty of scanning failed to reveal anything else. Also here; greylag goose (150), shelduck (37), teal (4), goosander (2) and coot (19).
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