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