Stensåns mynning today, the small area of open water contained 17 tufted duck and a male common scoter. It is starting to look Arctic. Basking seals have been absent lately as most of the inshore rocks have been iced up, but now they are starting to haul out onto the ice floes... [Note the typically flamboyant colouration of the winter-plumage Swedes.]After breakfast we went for a walk to look for the dipper recently reported along the Stensån. No luck with the dipper (we dipped...), but we did find a few new birds for the year including a nice tawny owl that the kids actually looked at!! Also here siskin (1, very scarce at the moment) and a woodpigeon (likewise).
After a spot of lunch we headed to Vråen to look for the bunting flock, they were way off feeding at the back and I did not inflict bunting hunting on the kids after their long walk in the morning. Instead we enjoyed the raptors that have been hanging around this site. Plenty here today with goshawk (adult), rough-legged buzzard (1), red kite (1) and kestrel (1) all being new for 2011. Two rooks here were the first of the year too.
Last stop of the day was at Torekov. A brief stop here produced at least one purple sandpiper and a distant peregrine out on Vinga.
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