Sweden 05-21May15

From Con

I am off to my ancestral homeland so I won’t be birding locally.

19 May

Today an experienced (40 yrs experience) took me around for a morning of birding. There is a known spot where there is a rather crazy bird. He will come out of the forest and bite your legs and hit you with his wings. You have to use a long stick to keep him away!! To get back into the car had to blow the horn. Then he chases the car down the road!!

Capercaillie

We also got black grouse, crested tit, black-throated loon and some other forest birds. But it was really rainy.

Then went to coast and got a flock of about fourty dunlins. Turns out the person who told me they had already gone North was simply wrong. Also broad-billed sandpiper, sanderling and some more.

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Austria 01-13Jun14

From Con

Con was on an all-expense-piad trip to Austria by Zeiss!

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Europe 26Nov-10Dec06
I went to Europe from 26 Nov - 10 Dec and saw 36 species of birds, featuring only the common birds.

1. Little grebe (Rhine Falls, Switzerland)
2. Great crested grebe (Amsterdam, Netherland)
3. Great cormorant (common)
4. Grey heron (common)
5. Great egret (Amsterdam, Netherland)
6. White stork (Germany)
7. Common pheasant (common)
8. Mute swan (common)
9. Mallard (common)
10. Common goldeneye (Salzburg, Austria & Amsterdam, Netherland)
11. Red-crested pochard (Lucerne, Switzerland)
12. Common pochard (Lucerne, Switzerland)
13. Tufted duck (Lucerne, Switzerland)
14. Common buzzard (common)
15. Red kite (Germany)
16. Kestrel (common)
17. Common moorhen (Rhine Falls, Switzerland & Amsterdam, Netherland)
18. Common coot (common)
19. Black-headed gull (common)
20. Herring gull (common)
21. Yellow-legged gull (Venice, Italy)
22. Lesser black-backed gull (Rome, Italy)
23. Great black-backed gull (Amsterdam, Netherland)
24. Rock pigeon (common)
25. Wood pigeon (Germany)
26. Willow tit (Germany)
27. Magpie (common)
28. Jackdaw (Italy)
29. Alpine chough (Mount Titlis, Switzerland)
30. Hooded crow (Italy)
31. Carrion crow (common)
32. Starling (common)
33. Italian sparrow (Vatican City)
34. House sparrow (common)
35. Blackbird (common)
36. Wren (Lucerne, Switzerland)

Common birds of Italy

Mute Swan. Juvenile left, adult right

Tufted Ducks. Female left, male right

Red-headed Pochard. Common Pochard

Mallard pair. Common Goldeneye pair

Great Crested Grebe. Little Grebe

Juvenile Common Moorhen. Common Coot

Black-headed Gull. Lesser Black-backed Gull.

Yellow-legged Gulls.

Great Cormorant. Grey Heron

Common Pigeons. Female Italian Sparrow

Hooded Crow. Alpine Chough