Thass gon helluva windy! A hefty breeze from the west greeted us all this morning. After various domestic duties and a trip to Ängelholm (65 eider heading east), it was time to settle into Yttre Kattvik for a 3.5 hour sea-watching session. I was pretty quickly joined by Nils Kjellén, we were both hoping for some rare scoter action. This is the week for black and surf scoter in this neck of the woods as birds start to move from their regular wintering areas in Denmark and travel south and round into the Baltic. Sure enough plenty of common scoter were on the move and I logged 770 in the end (my best day total in BK, but half of what was seen during shorter sessions just a little north of me, birds may be dropping into the bay?). No sign of any 'rares' though and just one velvet during the session. Very few eider migrating today, most as I wrote earlier favour the overland route from Laholmsbukten. Other notable species; long-tailed duck (4), red-throated diver (15), great crested grebe (8), gannet (at least 8 - year-tick!), guillemot (1), razorbill (2) and black guillemot (4).
It is going to be windy tomorrow too so hopefully some good birds will come our way.
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