Still misty and murky but
the easterly wind had dropped slightly at dawn allowing me to open a few nets (the
wind picked back up after a couple of hours) which produced 9 new Blackbirds –
including a Swedish control and a Blackcap in the first couple of rounds but
nothing afterwards. The poor visibility
and having to nip backwards and forwards to check the nets limited the time I
spent seawatching but birds did include a smart summer plumaged White-billed Diver, 4 Great-northern
Divers, 21 Red-throated Divers, 2 Long-tailed Ducks, 153 Common Scoter and 536
Razorbills but a much reduced 2 Kittiwakes and 2 Little Auks.
A Rough-legged
Buzzard was hovering over Seviksmarka and a 1st winter White-tailed Eagle flew over through
the morning before a walk round the coast was largely unremarkable with a
Slavonian Grebe in Sevika, the young male Peregrine still, 3 Wheatears, a
Lapland Bunting and a slightly out of place Great-spotted Woodpecker on the
rocks in Sevika.
Slinky Minky having a snooze in between bouts of destroying the native wildlife
Long-tailed Duck
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