The last few days have been characterised by snow and clouds. The kinds of weather where everything looks grey and it feels dark even in the middle of the day. It's not the most pleasant weather to be out birding, but out we went anyway! Found a few new year species, such as a group of six Snow Buntings and today a wonderful Golden Eagle soaring by the road as we came driving. It circled for a few minutes at close range, letting us see all the characteristics of a fourth winter bird, ie a 5cy now. I'm really thankful to an article in the latest issue of the local birding magazine about how to age Goldies. Lots of fun being able to age them!
Snow Buntings (Plectrophenax nivalis). Didn't take any photos this time, so the photo is of some I saw last year. Also a few Tree Sparrows in the photo. Lövstaslätten, 19 December 2010.
Also payed a visit back to Storvreta and the finches, and got a little film of them. Uploaded on Youtube, which as usual destroyed the quality of the film. It looked much better in the camera... note the Sparrowhawk entering at 0:33.
Nina is rather small and nurtures a great hate towards observation towers with too high fences. She does not like to stand on wobbly stools to look through her scope. Recently she started digiscoping a bit, and the results can be seen in the posts. That's all you need to know.
No comments:
Post a Comment