The thaw came to an abrupt halt with calm, cold and sunny weather throughout. During the day the temperature has crept up to above freezing but down to a few degrees below at nights.
A dropping briefly the number of Blackbirds svarttrost in the garden is back at 10 - by far the most numerous bird in the garden this winter.
In the very early hours of Monday morning the northern lights put on quite a display. I was too slow to find the other lens for my camera and completely missed what could have been a nice opportunity. However, a 30 second exposure still gave quite a nice image which just about captured faint traces of the green in the sky which were not visible to the naked eye.
The remainder of the day pretty much went down the pan with an appointment in Bergen meaning I got no work and no birding in. However, all was not lost with two Oystercatcher tjeld at Turøy on the way home and my first Grey-headed Woodpecker gråspett of the year flying over the house in the afternoon.
Tuesday was rather better with a walk at Hjelme Vest producing most of the target species including a cracking White-billed Diver gulnebblom which gave good views in the scope, a Great Northern Diver islom, an Oystercatcher tjeld (probably the same one seen in the area a couple of times by others), 11 Purple Sandpiper fjæreplytt, a couple of Curlew storspove and 11 White-tailed Eagles havørn on the same island! 60 Common Crossbill grankorsnebb in the woods were showing signs of pairing up with pairs feeding each other.
On 27 January all I managed was a walk at Solberg which was rather quiet with just a Velvet Scoter sjøorre and a Curlew storspove of any note.
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