wader go

 My first grey plover of the year...

With rain forecast for most of the day I stayed off the roof and went birding instead. Been a while. Torekov was the obvious location as a number of potential wader year-ticks have been recorded there recently, the best of it being two broad-billed sandpipers. It took me a while to nail the main flock of waders down but I found a couple of sanderling on the beach and had three curlew sandpipers briefly whilst I was searching. The wader flock also contained a grey plover, a little stint, two broad-billed sandpipers and three knot. Ended the session with six year-ticks!

Nearby at Norra Ängalag it was pretty quiet, just 8 dunlin but evidence of passerine migration with showy redstart and spotted flycatcher available.

Nice

 Needed

more broad-bill

In the afternoon I engineered some time at Klarningen. Waders here too with spotted redshank (1), ruff (3), dunln (1), wood sandpiper (2) and green sandpiper (1) being the best of it.

Seawatch Part 3

A couple of embayed Manx shearwaters kept me entertained throughout today's session.

Two spotted flycatchers and the pied flycatcher remained at the sheltered spot in Förslöv this morning. After my taxi duties it was off to Eskilstorpsstrand for more seawatching today. Six hours here was rather pleasant, although I failed to add either sooty shearwater (none seen in Lahomsbukten today) or Sabine's gull (a juvenile stayed further north and sadly as I write this is parading past Båstad...) to my year-list. They will come in time though no doubt.

Two little stints were on the beach today in a mobile flock of dunlin, sanderling and knot.

Little gulls were the signature bird of today's session, good numbers milling around in the bay and occasionally feeding along the surfline.

Highlights of the watch; brent goose (three south, a nice BK year-tick), fulmar (at least two, probably more), Manx shearwater (2 bombing back and forth in the bay), unidentified ringtail harriers (two, crossing the bay and frustratingly losing leeway and passing in overland further north!), merlin (7!), peregrine (1), little stint (2 on the beach), sanderling (6), Arctic skua (1) and at least 27 little gulls. Winds dropping overnight, but might still be worth a clean-up walk to check for strays tomorrow.