A brace of year-ticks

Nipped out early this morning to search for both ring ouzel and wryneck recorded near my house on the 1st. No joy but did get grey wagtail at Sinarpsdalen, they obviously breed here, but no sign of any black redstarts this morning.

Spent an hour at Torekov rev too, where my first turnstone of the year was strutting up and down the jetty, other highlights here; the flighty little ringed plover again, purple sandpiper (2), a wood warbler and another grey wagtail.

In the afternoon, I managed an hour-and-a-half divided between Sandön and Rönnen. At Sandön I was oblivious to a nearby stonechat and so did not see it, but that kept things pure at least! Some good birds here as usual with a fine osprey struggling with a large sea-trout, four bar-tailed godwits, five greenshank and three excellent little gulls. Rönnen was better with a nice pair of garganey, little ringed plover (1), Temminck's stint (1 - another year-tick), dunlin (2), spotted redshank (1), greenshank (2) and wood sandpiper (1). Five or six blue-headed wagtails looked superb tripping about on the short sward.