SWEDEN - 17th June

A few hours in the damp morning was spent counting stuff on Rysjön, where the fantastic marsh produced plenty of highlights (nothing rare for here just amazing Scandinavian marshland scenes!) which included single singing Great Reed Warbler and Savi’s Warbler, lots of calling Black Terns as they fed chicks, good flocks of juvenile Bearded Tits in the reeds, Cranes flying about including a flock of 25, awesome wader flocks with returning birds starting to appear which included 15+ male, fully plumaged Ruff, 18+ fully black Spotted Redshanks, 30+ Wood Sandpipers, 3 Greenshank and a few Green Sandpipers, loads of duck including a single drake Garganey, 10 Red-necked Grebes, loads of Marsh Harriers and lots of Blue-headed Wagtails breeding in the marshland.   

Other little bits of note comprised a single Taiga Bean Goose, a Hobby, one male Grey-headed Wagtail, a couple of Cuckoos and a few Common Terns.   

The afternoon was quieter but a look at the ringing site of Fågelsjön produced good flight views of a Bittern, a few distant Little Gulls, 2 Ospreys, the Thrush Nightingales still (with another couple of others seen and heard), 4 Whinchats and a Goldeneye with ten small ducklings.

Grey-headed Wagtail

Juvenile Bearded Tits

Black Tern

Whinchat