Sunday, December 18, 2011

Hjelme Vest 18 December 2011 - White-billed Diver

Calm and relatively mild, some light rain.


 Above and below: Heavily cropped shots of White-billed Diver gulnebblom at Hjelme Vest.


Hjelme Vest was easier to check out than of late due to calm sea conditions. Best sighting was an adult White-billed Diver gulnebblom on the sea. Seems like this species is becoming a commoner winter visitor in recent years.

Other birds here included a Great Northern Diver islom, a Curlew storspove (overwintering birds finally arrived!), a few Black Guillemots teist, a couple of Little Auk alkekonge, a Razorbill alke, several White-tailed Eagle havørn and increased numbers of seaduck inlcuding a few Velvet Scoter sjøorre.


 Above and below: Tundra Bean Geese sædgås at Tjeldstø


The nine Tundra Bean Geese sædgås remain at Tjeldstø together with a couple of Pinkfeet kortnebbgås.

A Little Auk alkekonge seen later in the day whilst not birding

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