It's only 11:15 but I'm confidently going to say that there's only one bird worth talking about today: Yellow-breasted Bunting (Gyllensparv).
It was my turn to sleep in this morning — and, after getting back in the wee small ours of the morning from wader ringing, I was glad of the chance to lie-in until half-four. I arrived at Flommen just as Christian got back from his net round, hollering and whooping as he did. He handed me the bag; he was quite sure he knew what it was and, after seeing the bird, so was I. The median crown stripe wasn't as strong as I'd expected and the wing-bars were rather buff, but apart from that everything else added up to a perfect 1cy Yellow-breasted Bunting. We called Björn and asked him to come and confirm our extremely strong suspicions, which he duly did.
The bird was the first record of this species for Falsterbo and only the 34th record for Sweden; it's been 11 years since the last record
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The bird had a few small ticks on its head but seemed in good health. In other ringing news, a Red-backed Shrike was ringed and a Reed Warbler carrying a German ring was caught.
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