Sabine's gull waits just long enough

Nipped out to Båstad at dawn to check for waifs and strays after the big blow. Walked straight to the sea and there at my feet was yesterday's Sabine's gull. Superb. Poor light so poor photos...

1K Sabine's gull - always a favourite.

Mmmm - arty.

The bird saw me and started paddling away out to sea and managed to disappear presumably by flying whilst I was scanning hopefully for the Mediterranean gull (seen again to the north of BK yesterday). Short but sweet. A reasonably thorough search failed to relocate the Sabine's but did produce a rock pipit and three grey wagtails.

Picked up the team next and we had a walk around Gröthögarna. Beautiful weather for a change but not much on the move here. Highlights included a nice 1K hen harrier and another grey wagtail. Last stop of the morning was at Påarps Mal which produced another BK year-tick in the shape of two shag. Also here three 1K grey plovers roosting.

In the afternoon I dropped in on Klarningen, plenty of water on site now and wildfowl are responding slowly. At least 80 teal, 16 wigeon and a few geese around, and best of all two little grebes. The flooded fields to the south were good too with over 200 meadow pipits and 8 dunlin.