Öland birds

We spent part of the summer holiday on the island of Öland off the SE coast of Sweden. I took a ridiculous number of photos and am still ploughing through them. Here is a selection of some of the better pictures of birds that I took.

Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus (N=spurvehauk)

Male Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus (N=sivhauk)

Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo (N=lerkefalk) with Common Swift in talons

Young Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus (N=vipe)

Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa (N=lappspove)

Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea (N=tundrasnipe) and Dunlin Calidris alpina (N=myrsnipe)

L-R: Common Gull Larus canus (N=fiskemåke), adult and juvenile Sandwich Tern Sterna sandvicensis (N=splitterne)

Common Swift Apus apus (N=tårnseiler)

Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica (N=låvesvale)

White Wagtail Motacilla alba N=linerle

Male Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio (N=tornskate)

Female Red-backed Shrike