SWEDEN - 26th June

A similar ringing session at Fågelsjön in the morning produced the highlights of 3 Great Reed Warblers (one fully colour-ringed with a data-logger, one just with a metal ring [wandering female ringed last autumn] and an un-ringed male), 2 Thrush Nightingales, the first juvenile Willow Warbler of the year and a ten-year-old re-trap Reed Warbler; other bird seen included 55 Cranes, a Greenshank, the first bit of visible migration of the ‘autumn’ with a flock of 15 Curlew heading high south in migration formation, the two Great White Egrets and two singing Marsh Warblers.   A walk round to Löten in the still hot afternoon didn’t produce anything new but counts included 2 Garganey, 2 Pintail, the 2 Pochard, 370 Lapwing, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 15 Ruff, 2 Green Sandpipers, 5 Spotted Redshank, 50+ Wood Sandpipers and good views of a Bittern on the deck.

Crane

Whinchat

Brilliant Emerald