Me and Jonathan came back from Sweden glowing (but shattered). It was a wonderful 2 days, we saw nearly 110 species of bird, many of which we had never seen before. The company was excellent too. If you wanna spend 2 amazing days watching 100s of raptors... I recommend you visit http://www.swallowbirding.co.uk/ and book on next years trip. You will NOT be sorry! So now, lets get to boasting... (all pics were taken by our tour leader, Steve)
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Lesser Spotted Eagle (a real rarity in Sweden)
also, 50+ Red Kite and a Black Kite, 3 White Tailed Eagle, and 4 Osprey (including one fishing)... oh, and up to 300 of these...
Sparrowhawks! - the sky was filled with em. We also saw Sparrowhawks dashing through flocks of 100s of Yellow Wagtails. (Jonathan also saw a Goshawk, but did not share it!)... We also saw a few Hobbies, lots of Kestrels, hundreds of Buzzards including 10 of these...
...Honey Buzzards! We also saw 1 Buzzard carrying a snake or Slow Worm... and around 40 Marssh Harriers The highlight was probably this amazing juvenlie Montagues Harrier that flew up close for a good length of time.
Other hightlights included: 21 White Stork, 3 parties of Crane, a few Eider, pair of Red Brested Merganser, up to 50 Goldeneye, 50+ Ruff, 2 Red Necked Pharalope, 2 Spotted Redshank, Knot, Grey Plover, Little Tern, 20+ Sandwich Tern, 30 Barnacle Geese, Cuckoo, 2 Red Backed Shrike, 50+ Spotted Flycatcher, 20+ Pied Flycatcher, 20+ Redstart, 40+ Whinchat, 5 Wheatear, several hundred Tree Pipit, up to 1000 Yellow Wagtail, c50 Crossbill, 100s of Siskin, a pair of Marsh Tit, Icterine Warbler, Wood Warbler, and we heard Black Woodpecker and Wryneck. And not a Feral Pigeon in sight! Other than ticking birds, we also saw...
4 of these Fallow Deer, a few Roe Deer, 6 Hares, a few sightings of Red Squirrel including a very small baby one.---
Group pic time... (The food was great by the way, but no meatballs)
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