The great thing about travelling to a totally new country, hemisphere etc., is that every bird seen is usually a new one. OK - I have seen the sparrows, blackbirds, starlings and song lark, but there are so many more. The first day was full of magpie and Hooded Crow on the drive from the airport, but the next day whilst sitting on the porch having breakfast a Great Spotted Woodpecker chose to land in the apple tree to show off a tad, then lead us to where we could hear his young peeping away. Since then we have seen this batch out in the trees ripping back the bark and being totally self-sufficient.
so here is the list so far - I (hopefully) will add more as the days go by, but finding time to come to computer away from lots of other things is remarkably hard!
Black-throated Diver - parents with one chick on Rockhammar lake!
Great Crested Grebe (several seen, but one female with 9 chicks clambering over her body)
Heron
Mallard (heaps and everywhere!)
Grey Lag Goose
Buzzard - regularly
Hobby
Crane - a pair sighted several times, even photographed (badly!)
Coot
Lapwing - so cute with its flippant hairstyle!
Woodcock
Common Gull
another gull, not totally id'd - first thought might be a Great Black-backed Gull, but not sure about that one
Black-headed Gull
Common Tern
Rock Dove - duva everywhere!
Ring Dove - a group of over 12 which is apparently unusual here
Cuckoo - heard only up at Kultjärn (lake near Finnafallet)
Swift
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Song Lark - remembered song from home (Lower SE South Australia)
Jackdaw
Hooded Crow
Magpie
Great Tit (no comments please, but heaps of these little Birds)
Nuthatch - so cute!
Tree Creeper
Wren - heard around the house and saw a flit, yet to have a good look at it.
Fieldfare
Blackbird
Robin - even! but not a good siting as light not that good!
Spotted Flycatcher - nesting outside the door at Finnafallet
Pied Flycatcher - nesting in box at Rockhammar
Pied Wagtail - everywhere!
Starling
Bull Finch
Scarlet Grosbeak
Chaffinch - heaps of these once you start looking instead of dismissing them all as sparrows!
Yellowhammer
House Sparrow
Tree Sparrow
That's all for now. There are a couple of other species seen, but not sure of what they were. I shall add to this list if I get time, but obviously I am having fun seeing all these new birds!
