A rare twitch

Still busy with family. Great blue-sky, sunny weather today. Spent time at Dömestorp (hawfinch heard) grilling sausages and then went up to Tönnersa (too busy to look at birds).

After tea and with excellent baby-sitters on hand, Mrs B and I slipped out of the house heading for Rönnen and the Terek sandpiper found yesterday. We quickly located the bird feeding in a shoreline pool on the west side. Nice views in good light. Terek's are great, and this was my first in Sweden. We watched the bird for about 15 minutes before it flew onto the rocky shoreline of the island to the north and was eventually lost to view. The nearby pool had a good selection of waders; green sandpiper (2), wood sandpiper (7), spotted redshank (2) and dunlin (1). A single 2K little gull was also present. Nice evening.