Wednesday 10 th
of February 2021
and I met my Guide from Bird Safari Sweden at the Supermarket at Salbohed at 06 thirty. From there it was 5 minutes to drive to the hide in the forest. Took us about 5 minutes to walk to the hide.
We fired up the gas heater and my Guide left and I was alone waiting for the day light.
Pitch dark
It is getting day light slowly slowly
Soon day light
Day light
The Northern Goshawk was soon landing, but took off before I can get a picture. 10 to 20 minutes later and the Goshawk came back but the bird never landed.
I was waiting for the bird to come back and I had some other birds I took pictures of. The Eurasian Jay, a bird I have tried to get pictures of before but I had never managed to get any pictures. Now I had more luck and I managed to get a few pictures.
Eurasian Jay /Nötskrika
Eurasian Jay /Nötskrika
Eurasian Jay /Nötskrika
Eurasian Jay /Nötskrika
Eurasian Jay /Nötskrika
Yellowhammer / Gulsparv
Yellowhammer / Gulsparv
Yellowhammer / Gulsparv
Yellowhammer / Gulsparv
Eurasian Blue Tit/ Blåmes
I saw quite a few birds, nothing I had not seen before and I managed to get some pictures. I was about to give up on the Goshawk when the bird landed. I managed to get a few pictures before the bird took off and landed in a tree top and I recorded the call from the bird.
Listen to the Northern Goshawk
Remarks from the Recordist
Recorded with my ZOOM H5 Handy Recorder
Sitting in top of a tree. Starts calling and take off and we can hear the bird calling while disappearing. I was very happy to have seen the Goshawk and the pictures turned out to be quite OK so I was happy when I left the hide. The only thing was that I had no picture of the Goshawk facing me and showing the beautiful front.
Northern Goshawk / Duvhök
Northern Goshawk / Duvhök
eBird Report
Goshawk Hide, Salbohed, Västmanlands län [SE-19], SE Feb 10, 2021 07:44 - 14:04
Protocol: Stationary
Checklist Comments: In Bird Safari Sweden's hide
7 species
Northern Goshawk 1
Great Spotted Woodpecker 1
Eurasian Jay 5
Eurasian Blue Tit 7
Great Tit 12
Eurasian Blackbird 1
Yellowhammer 16
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S80747863
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (https://ebird.org/home)
The hide
Walk path through the snow
I stop to buy a semla on the way back to my room
I drove back to the Supermarket in Salbohed and I bought Semlor before I returned to my cottage at Fallängetorp för folk och fä and I made tea and I enjoyed my Semla, or was it 4? Anyway, we will drive north tomorrow morning to have a look for the Siberian Jay. It is a 2 hours’ drive and I will leave at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning.
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to find out if I see any Siberian Jays