Saturday, July 5, 2008 - The trip to Skåne, almost a month afterwards.
Finally home again (arrived on the 2nd). Had no time to update in between trips, so here's a little something about the trip to Skåne (Scania). It will be mostly pictures I think...
Day 1 (June 6)
The first field day of the trip resulted in five life ticks (White Stork, Woodlark, Kingfisher, Golden Eagle and Corn Bunting) and additional year ticks (Black Tern, Honey Buzzard).
 Woodlark (Lullula arborea)
 Red Kite (Milvus milvus)
 Corn Bunting (Miliaria calandra)
The fairly odd assembly of lifers is in my opinion a quite good indication on how large the biotope diversity in Skåne is.
Day 2 (June 7)
We had no Golden Orioles the first day, which was well made up for day two with perhaps as many as seven singing at the same time and at least three flying over. No lifers this day but year ticks of Barred Warbler, Wryneck and Firecrest. Also life-second ticks of the afforementioned plus Tawny Pipit and Serin.
 Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio)
 Common Lizard (Zootoca vivipara)
 Serin (Serinus serinus) Singing male
 Black redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros) male
 Black redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros) female
The above Black Redstarts were found among some high buildings near the harbour in Åhus, where we went on an evening stroll from our hostel. The following morning I also found two juveniles in a nook on one of the buildings.
Day 3 (June 8)
Last day of the trip. No year ticks but life tick of Hobby. On our way home we stopped at a spot for a very long time to look for Red-breasted Flycatcher without success, which resulted in a tired busdriver declining to stop by Galtabäck for a Little Egret.
 White Stork (Ciconia ciconia)
 Blue-headed Wagtail (Motacilla flava flava)
 Four-spotted Chaser (Libellula quadrimaculata)
 Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
Soon there will be a post about the trip to Padjelanta. I got six lifers up there :)
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Sunday, July 6, 2008 - Untitled Comment |
| Posted by Elon |
| Eeey... wait a minute. You couldn't possibly have year-ticked Barred Warbler, Wryneck and Firecrest on the first day, huh? No big deal of course, I know... |
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Monday, July 7, 2008 - editorial botch |
| Posted by oskila |
No, you're right, I just fiddled about with that sentence without remembering to read it in full, so in the end it came out erroneous :)
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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
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