Happy new year! I hope you all had a pleasant continuation into the new year. A new year’s resolution I have is to blog about my birding in and around Malmö. I haven’t decided on a particularly frequency but I will try as often as time allows.

My first birding of 2022 was to my local patch of Klagshamn. The combination of sunny, cloudless weather with mild wind (a rare combination in Malmö this time of year) made it an enjoyable outing, I wanted to stay out the entire day.

There were a few wintering species, including tens of Redwings (Rödvingetrast) and the odd Mistle Thrush (Dubbeltrast) by the horse stables. Around the ponds were the usual flocks of wintering Tufted Ducks (Vigg) interspersed with Greater Scaup (Bergand), Pochard (Brunand), Eurasian Teal (Kricka), and Mallard (Gräsand).

A Great Egret (Ägretthäger) spent part of the afternoon in the bushes immediately to the east of Klagshamn’s flooded limestone quarry. It was kept company by hundreds of Fieldfares (Björktrast), and there were also a couple of Grey Herons (Gråhäger) in the vicinity.

Hakim