As I assumed, June brought some additions.

Little egret

I’ve photographed Little egrets previously on Mallorca, but now one happened to appear close by home here in Sweden.

Collared flycatcher

During midsummer BBQ, a Collared flycatcher decided to pay the party a visit. Some harsh light in the evening, but still able to work out what species it is.

Wader bonanza

There are a lot of waders migrating currently, giving me the chance to see both Little stint and Curlew sandpiper for the first time.

This years second quarter hasn’t ended yet, but I’ve gathered more than enough new listings to justify a new blog post.

Grey Partridge

When visiting my dad in Skåne, I took the opportunity to search for Grey Partridge that had been reported. First I found the one that someone else had already reported, and when biking back I found another one by myself.

Hornsudden

On April 1 I went to Hornsudden to get a better view of the migrating birds.

Mediterranean gull

A Mediterranean gull had been found in Kalmar, so I went to take a look at it.

Blyth’s reed warbler

Nothern gannet

This one was found in a lake about 1 hour drive from home, and has stayed there for about 1,5 week by the time of writing. A bit strange.

Went out to Bottorp/Hagbyhamn with Carl and Magnus yesterday. New listing was Caspian gull:

I also got improved photos of Stock dove, compared to last time:

I’ve been a bit slow with updating the blog with my latest listings, so now with the current quarter ending I thought it would be a good idea to summarize.

Eurasian eagle-owl

I won’t go into details on this listing, since it’s a vulnerable species in Sweden.

Great grey shrike

Had planned to search for owls in Ebbegärde Kronopark with Carl, but didn’t find any. Instead this Great grey shrike showed up!

King eider

Early morning in March with the first southern migration winds, I finally got to see a King eider.

A good start to the new year! I was out birding today, when an alarm came for a Black-throated thrush less than 10min away on the bike. It’s the second one for Kalmar, and 64th for Sweden. Carl joined up shortly after I arrived as well.

First, I managed to squeeze in some last listings at the end of 2022:

Statistics

2022 gave me 43 new photo listings, giving me a total 203.

And here’s a graph showing the number of new listing by week number.

To summarize, the complete graph since I started in 2021 looks like this:

Experiences

This year I focused a lot more on birding in my local area, rather than heading to some “hotter” place. Looking at Artportalen, it’s fun to see that I have 162 species of birds listed in Kalmar municipality for 2022 (that number includes some birds I wasn’t able to document, like Red-throated loon), which is more than I saw in total in 2021.

Focusing my birding to my local area has made me much more aware of what different habitats exists in my vicinity.

The bird experiences I hold most dear from this year was when I found a Short-eared owl back in April, and when going to Ebbegärde kronopark together with Carl and Marc.

Thanks

Going out birding with other people always makes the experience better, it’s more fun to share the joy! Thank you Hanna, Carl, Marc and Staffan for your great company while birding this year.

To get a working setup, I instead followed Ivan Smirnov’s solution, with some adjustments/details. Both for my own sake and others, I’ll document here what worked.

Solution

First, install Wireguard CLI tools using brew:

$ brew install wireguard-tools wireguard-go

Now you want to add PostUp/PostDown commands to your Wireguard config, so that it looks something like this:

[Interface]
Address = 10.0.10.8/24 # adapt for your case
PrivateKey = YOUR_PRIVATE_KEY
DNS = 10.0.0.x # adapt for your case

# Commands to set and clear DNS
PostUp = sudo /usr/sbin/networksetup -setdnsservers Wi-Fi 10.0.0.x # same as `DNS` above
PostDown = sudo /usr/sbin/networksetup -setdnsservers Wi-Fi "Empty"

[Peer]
PublicKey = PUBLIC_KEY_OF_PEER
PresharedKey = PRE-SHARED_KEY
AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0, ::/0
Endpoint = wireguard.example.com:51820

Now for where to place the config: brew (at the time of writing this) has its home under /opt/homebrew, which can be verified by running brew --prefix. Therefore I first thought that the config file should reside under /opt/homebrew/etc/wireguard, but this is wrong. It should be placed under /usr/local/etc/wireguard/, in my case as /usr/local/etc/wireguard/wg0.conf.

$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/wireguard/
$ sudo cp myconfig.conf /usr/local/etc/wireguard/wg0.conf

Now, lets try to start the tunnel:

$ sudo wg-quick up wg0
Password:
wg-quick: Version mismatch: bash 3 detected, when bash 4+ required

My first thought here was to just brew install bash, but I already had latest bash installed. The issue here is that /bin was sitting before /opt/homebrew/bin on my PATH. So after placing /opt/homebrew/bin first on my PATH in ~/.zshrc, I could rerun the above command and the tunnel was working as expected.

$ sudo wg-quick up wg0
$ ping my.internal.server.local
PING my.internal.server.local (10.0.0.15): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.0.15: icmp_seq=0 ttl=63 time=42.639 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.15: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=38.798 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.15: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=44.611 ms
^C
--- my.internal.server.local ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 25.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 38.798/42.016/44.611/2.414 ms
$ sudo wg-quick down wg0 # when done

Technical details

The image is taken with a 300mm ƒ/4 lens on a regular tripod. Here’s the setup:

The raw photos were stacked and then post-processed in Siril. First used Photometric Color Calibration to get color correction, then auto stretching with manual tweaking. After that some background extraction, and finally some last tweaks in Lightroom.

From 6 to 20 August I hiked through Sarek National Park together with Hanna. During this trip I got to see a lot of new species for me. I’ve removed all dates and timestamps from the images, to not expose the area where I saw the Gyrfalcon, since it’s protected. Here the new findings are, grouped by order:

This brought me to 201 listings in total!

Complete list of birds seen

Today I went out birding with Carl and Hanna in Bottorp/Hagbyhamn. It didn’t bring any new listings, but greatly improved photos of these two species. First of a Eurasian hobby (previous photo):

And secondly a Spotted redshank (previous photo):