NOTE 1: RYTTLA. which birds of prey ‘ryttlar’? Kestrel, red-footed falcon, osprey and rough-legged hawk.
21 mai: GODWIT. 100 bar-tailed godwit in Lomma södra
NOTE 2: RÖRSÅNGAREN vs SÄVSÅNGAREN. Rörsångaren sjunger sävligt, sävsångaren sjunger rörigt.
NOTE 3: WINGS and EGGS. Fast, frequent flyers have longer, narrower, pointier wings and longer, narrower, pointier eggs. Slower, less-frequent fliers have shorter, broader, more rounded wings, and shorter, broader, more rounded eggs.
NOTE 4: LOOKS like vs SOUNDS like. willow warbler looks like chiffchaff, meadow pipit looks like tree pipit. need to learn their small differences. sometimes their song is the best way to ID them apart. sing please! other birds sound alike (while they do not look alike at all). easy to confuse them when they are hiding in the leaves and singing all at the same time. first song group to train: blackbird vs blackcap vs garden warbler…
NOTE 5: REDSHANKS. Common redshank has white hind-wing. the spotted redshank does not.
NOTE 6: GULL LEGS. Mew = yellow-greenish. Black-headed = red. Herring = pink. Great black back = pink. Lesser black back = yellow.
NOTE 7: Talking about birdsongs, Edward Thomas (british poet) wrote: ‘Beautiful as the notes are for their quality and order, it is their inhumanity that gives them their utmost fascination, the mysterious sense which they bear to us that the earth is something more than a human estate.’
NOTE 8: Väderstrecket man hörde årets första gök ifrån varslade om framtiden, sades det: Södergök är dödergök. Östergök är tröstegök. Nordegök är sorgegök. Västergök är bästergök
NOTE 9: western yellow wagtail in the fields (ängar), white wagtail at the shore
NOTE 10: Fairbanks biologist Susan Sharbaugh discovered that black-capped chickadees gained an additional 10% of their body weight each day. Then they wedge, alone, into tight roosts in birch trees. “The birds then use that fat to shiver all night, which keeps them warm,” science writer Ned Rozell wrote last year. “The human equivalent would be a 165-pound man who spent a frigid night outside and emerged 15 pounds lighter by the next morning.” These birds are “Type A personalities,” Gibson said. Their hearts beat 500 times a minute. But at night, he said, chickadees go into a state approaching torpor — similar to bears — conserving energy by bringing down their heart rates./Anchorage daily news january 2022.