Wednesday, September 9, 2009 - Finally Puffin!
Spent the sunday at Kråkudden with J and D. Strong winds from SW for almost a week meant hopes were up, but since the winds weren't very strong when we got there, the amounts of observed birds was in no way astonishing.
The highlight of the day was one of the first birds we spotted and one of the more embarrassing blanks in my lifers list, the Atlantic Puffin. Extinct in Sweden since some time in the 80's it's now only rarely seen and almost only during migration and such.
I left the camera at home to spare it from the salt and moisture and as a result we had both Gannet and Kittiwake well within photo range and almost perfect light conditons :)
Another nice episode happened on the way to the shelter, when a male Pheasant sauntered along the path some thirty meters ahead of us and then went to stand and mope in the higher grass as we wandered past.
 Nuthatch (Sitta europaea). This nuthatch sat very still on my balcony bird feeder, looking a bit dazed
so I guess it had crashed into a window or something. It didn't react much even when I dug out the camera,
changed lens, went and found a working battery and opened the balcony door. I then shot about 100 frames
of it at close to minimum range before it managed to regroup and fly away.
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About Me
27 year old birder from Gothenburg, Sweden.
Last year we twitched for year ticks. I ended up with 250 which is more than I had lifers when the year started. This year I'll go fairly easy on the year ticks (Though anything under 200 is shameful) but will instead aim for 300 life ticks in Sweden. A task and a half probably...
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Last ticks
• 280: Two-barred Crossbill
• 279: Atlantic Puffin
• 278: Little Egret
• 277: Rosy Starling
• 276: Ring-necked Duck
• 275: Red-footed Falcon
• 274: Black Grouse
• 273: Steller's Eider
• 272: Water pipit
• 271: Eurasian Pygmy Owl
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