Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - mushrooms and crossbills
Took a friend mushroom hunting in Änggårdsbergen nature reserve on saturday. We found quite a lot of Golden Chanterelle, Yellowfoot and Terracotta Hedgehog.
'But this is a bird blog?' the orderly thinks.
Yes, well, Änggårdsbergen is a classical spot for migrating Two-barred Crossbills since the area also holds the botanical gardens' arboretum with several species of Larch. After a brief stop for coffee and biscuits we headed downhill again and heard a large flock of crossbills more or less circling the area.
Most of them sounded like Common Crossbill, but there was also the occasional tweeting sound, typical for Two-barred Crossbill, and like I've said before; by Swedish rules, identification by sound is as good as visual contact and in this case means life tick 280 :)
 Yellowfoot (Cantharellus tubaeformis) laid out to dry.
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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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