Ran
away to Sweden! I arrived last night at
Stockholm Arlanda Airport and after a peaceful night I got up early and had a
walk around the airport and over to a lake called Halmsjön within easy walking distance; for being just
rough wasteland and a few marshy, grassy bits it was great to see such as wide
range of stuff in a short time.
Highlights included a singing Corncrake, 2 Swifts, a few Lapwings with chicks, 2 Little
Ringed Plovers, some Snipe (with birds displaying and perching on street
lights), a few displaying Redshank, a Green Sandpiper, an agitated pair of
Common Sandpipers, 4 Common Terns on the lake, plenty of Skylarks carrying
food, breeding Fieldfare with some fledglings seen, 5 Wheatears, 6+ Blue-headed
Wagtails and a singing Tree Pipit.
A
three-hour bus ride west from Stockholm then produced the highlight of a Black Woodpecker seen flying across the
road near Enköping before I arrived at my new home of
Kvismaren Bird Observatory.
It rained
all afternoon so I didn’t get out but around the house birds included a pair of
Thrush Nightingales feeding chicks, a Crane flying across the
fields and a few other bits including Marsh Harrier, Pied Flycatcher and Tree
Pipit.
Thrush Nightingale with food
Great-spotted Woodpecker feeding a fledgling
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