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26 Feb 2010: Like the turning of a page...
After two months of cold, hard winter and then only one day with temperature over zero, it happened: During today's count of resting birds at Nabben, Common Shelduck (6), Ringed Plover (2), Northern Lapwing (1) and some Skylarks were observed. Common Shelduck and Skylark were also seen at Ängsnäset. Nice! There is hope!

13 Feb 2010: Crested Caracara in Skanör!
There was an e-mail from Bengt Grandin in Skanör:
"This morning I had a call from Åke Jönsson about a strange bird, looking like a Caracara, was sitting just outside our houses. And yes - in the pine trees along Båtsmansvägen was a Crested Caracara. I managed to get some photos of it. The bird flew away towards Knösen but returned and was last seen flying westwards towards Skanör town center."

The Crested Caracara originates from Central and South America. This particular bird (we assume it is the same) was seen migrating into Skåne from Denmark already 8 May 2009. Since then it has been spotted on various places in southern Sweden (Skåne and Halland). Without doubt, it has escaped from a "Raptor park" somewhere (it has a strap around one tarsus, visible on the photo to the right).

30 Jan 2010: LOTS of snow!

Just when we finished yesterday's counts of resting birds, it started to snow. It then continued past midnight and at times it was quite heavy. At the same time the wind increased and the snow piled up itself in  enormous drifts. The Lighthouse area became totally isolated from the rest of Falsterbo and may probably stay isolated till Monday when the staff at the Golf Club come back to work.
 

27 Jan 2010: Coldest January in 23 years!
The iron grip of this winter gets worse with every day: the open sea is now freezing and lots of snow covers the ground. According to the Danish Weather Office, this is the coldest January in 23 years and probably the same goes for southernmost Sweden.

Today's snowfall covered even more of possible feeding sites for wintering birds. Therefore we saw an increasing number of birds at our bird feeding site, which of course was kept clean from snow, but instead partly covered with wader traps. Out of these we took 61 birds which all were ringed (52 Bramblings). One was a Common Starling, a species very seldom seen at the feeding site. Maybe another sign of lack of food in the surroundings.

22 Jan 2010: Ringing at the Feeding Site.
Despite the repugnant season right now, there are at least lots of birds at our feeding site. This winter there is an extra addition of quite many Bramblings around.
This afternoon four wader traps were set out on the feeding site. Two hours later, 40 Bramblings and five Blackbirds were ringed, which is quite a good number!
There were no sights of lean, emaciated, poor birds in the captures. All Bramblings had fat score 5 (3 sp.) or more (6: 22 sp., 7: 15 sp.). The same goes for all the Blackbirds except for one poor bird with fat score 1.

20 Jan 2010: Species list updated.
Both species and records lists have now been updated up to and including 2008 by Björn Malmhagen. There were three new species for the Falsterbo Peninsula during 2008: Blue-winged Teal, Great Grey Owl and Red-flanked Bluetail. Three totally new species in the same year have not been recorded since the mid-1990s.

Some other very rare species at Falsterbo recorded in 2008 were::
Cory's Shearwater (4th record).
Pectoral Sandpiper (5th record).
Eagle Owl (5th record).

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11 Jan 2010: Documentary films by Mikael Kristersson on DVD.
Now you can buy Mikael Kristersson´s highly praised and rewarded documentary films on DVD in our web shop. Mikael's films are unique in their way of setting humans as a part of nature and not as viewers from outside. The imagery is quiet and contains many long uncut sequences. Extraordinary well composed sound tracks makes the films "speaking by themselves", leaving out all speaker voices and background music.

At present we have Ljusår (Light Years, 2009), Falkens Öga (The Falcon's Eye, 1998), Porträtt av en vagabond (Portrait of a Vagabond, 1993) och Pica pica (1987) for sale. Click on Sales above and then select DVD-film for more information and ordering.

9 Jan 2010: ICE AGE...?
Very cold weather has dominated the first week of 2010. Temperatures below -10 C were recorded in some nights. All shallow lagoons and bays are frozen with ice thick enough to allow the rare opportunity of skating for the residents.

After a few more nights with strong cold and no wind the open sea will probably freeze too...

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