Winter returned big style. Strong northerly winds with frequent snow / hail showers meant that it was ever so slightly easier to spend the week glued to a computer.
I barely left the house other than for various errands and chores but despite this there was obviously stuff going on.
On 07 April a short drive by past Kollsnes gave me a Golden Plover heilo that has been seen on and off for a while and a nice male Pied Wagtail svartryggerle.
Two Whoopers sangsvane turned up during a snow storm at Tjeldstø the following day - no doubt driven back from wherever they had been going by the wintery conditions. The first I have seen here for a while and I had assumed that was the last I would see of them before next winter.....
A Pinkfoot kortnebbgås fed with Greylags grågås at Tjeldstø on 09 April in fading light on the way home from a last minute trip to the shops.
On 09 April I managed a short walk at Breivik where a selection of thrushes and a White Wagtail linerle were among birds that were new in. A male Sparrowhawk spurvehauk hunted in one of the gardens there.
Best bird of the day was a Rook kornkråke at Skogsøy - I was doing well sneaking up on it for a photograph when it suddenly flew and I knew it hadn't seen me - the culprit was a 3cy White-tailed Eagle havørn which passed low overhead.
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