Spent the three misty hours after dawn tramping the Gröthögarna circuit hoping for a yellow-browed warbler (just two BK records...). Some evidence of a fall of chiffchaffs and goldcrests and still a few blackcap feeding in the elders but nothing too exciting until I flushed a jack snipe at close range, which flew low and quietly until swallowed by the mist. Ripagården produced a ringed plover calling out in the mist somewhere, only my second October BK bird bizarrely, also one or perhaps two grey wagtails along the shoreline.
In the afternoon we all checked out Klarningen. A tractor was on site baling silage but the huge mass of birds just moved around on site luckily. Wildfowl numbers remain high with wigeon (30), teal (300), pintail (2) and little grebe (1). Raptors were good, many attracted by the machinery including a record nine red kites. Another record count was the flock of 47 ruff on site. Two swallows hunted close to the tower and as I left a superb 1K peregrine started hassling the teal.
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