Calm before the storm is not related to the birding birding but to the fact there was a family get together in conjunction with a Guns n Roses concert in Trondheim in early July. Just amazing!
Apart from a couple of guiding trips to Herdla I did not get out birding in any meaningful way.
So just the usual stuff from the garden including Goldfinches stillits, Lesser Whitethroat møller, Common Whitethroat tornsanger, Common Sandpiper strandsnipe, Common Tern makrellterne and so on. White-tailed Eagle havørn typically became infrequent but I did see them flying over the house a couple of times
Stonechat svartstrupe in the usual area around Kollsnes looked like they were going for a second brood.
Arctic Terns rødnebbterne at Dåvøy
Common Terns makrellterne with young at Dåvøy
Lapwing vipe at Kollsnes
Stonechat svartstrupe at Kollsnes
Trips to Herdla on 28th and 30th June produced all the usual breeding waders, Yellow Wagtail gulerle, Twite bergirisk, small numbers of Velvet Scoter sjøorre and Common Scoter svartand, displaying Dunlin myrsnipe (will they breed here soon?) and the first signs of the autumn wader migration with for example two Bar-tailed Godwit lappspove present on 28.06.
Yellow Wagtail gulerle at Herdla
I managed to misidentify this bird as a Wood Sandpier grønnstilk in the field. No excuses really but when looking at the picture it turned out to be a Redshank rødstilk
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