Friday, May 07, 2021

Øygarden 05-06 May 2021 - Ticking over

 A pre-breakfast drive-by at a few locations on 04 May produced a Greenshank gluttsnipe at Tjeldstø along with the usual wader species.

A flock of 15 Golden Plover heilo fed with Lapwing vipe at Breivik.

Part of the Golden Plover heilo flock with one of the Lapwing vipe

At Kollsnes I managed to read a colour-ringed Lesser Black-backed Gull sildemåke which was interesting. The bird was ringed as a chick on Fedje (just north of Øygarden) back in 2013 and since then the only sighting reported was from Portugal in 2018 before it showed up here:)

Reported sightings of J037H

Colour ringed LBBG sildemåke

Two Wryneck vendehals singing on the way home today.

Wryneck vendehals

From the terrace displaying Common Sandpipers strandsnipe, Otter and the usual.

In the afternoon I had to make a shop run and a very slight detour gave me my first local Hawfinch kjernebiter of the year.

On Thursday 06 May I spent the morning on Hernar. It was quite a productive morning despite many migrants still not showing. My first Ring Ousel ringtrost of the year turned up along with some other migrants including a couple of Goldfinch stillits, some Whimbrel småspove dropped in, a Skylark sanglerke flew over (late for this species to be migrating). Strangely I saw no Robins rødstrupe and no Wrens gjerdesmett....Around 45 species present meant that it must have been a reasonable day:)

Linnet tornirisk were the second commonest finch after Twite bergirisk on the island

Plenty of Wheatear steinskvett settling in

A male Ring Ousel ringtrost dropped in briefly

Whimbrel småspove taking a break to feed up for the next leg of its migration

I returned home to see the first Common Tern makrellterne of the year fly past the terrace:)



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