Skogsøy 21 April 2024 - Ace of Spades

 Light winds & sunny

I listen to P6 Rock on the radio whilst driving. The songs they played on the way way home were "Perfect Day" and Motorhead's "Ace of Spades". Both fitted well for the day's birding. The latter is a particular favourite of mine and fits seawatching at Skogsøy (or birding Øygarden for that matter) in a nutshell. Impossible to predict, take the good with the bad etc:)

The smell of suncream pervaded today's seawatch:)

Today's seawatch was just fine with almost 500 birds passing in just over 4 hours including a pale phase Arctic Skua tyvjo and two Black-throated Diver storlom heading north, a couple of Great Northern Diver islom on the sea and a decent selection of the usual suspects on the move.

Arctic Skua tyvjo heading north

A light passage of Common Gulls fiskemåke today

Not many Gannets havsule passing today but the few that did came in close

These two Great Northern Divers islom were among the first birds see today, they rested on the sea and drifted slowly south during the morning

Red-breasted Mergansers siland were heading north today

On the way home I picked up a (the?) Golden Eagle kongeørn again.

Back home and gardening again I had WT Eagle havørn, a flyover Skylark sanglerke and more.