Skogsøy 13 December 2018 - Let the Seawatching commence

The new seawatching hide at Skogsøy

The long awaited seawatching hide at Skogsøy is almost ready so I had to check it out. Although not quite finished yet it still locked it looks very promising - a far cry from what I used back in 2006....

Hopefully this will mean more seawatching in worse weather and therefore more birds. Øygarden has some serious gaps in "birding infrastructure" and this will plug the biggest gap of them all. All weather seawatching will become a reality in the immediate future.

More seawatching hides can be seen on this page.

I didn't have time to do any actual seawatching but it was great to be out in glorious winter weather.

Elsewhere in Øygarden during the week there was the usual fare with Great Northern Diver islom, Woodock rugde, Purple Sandpipers fjærplytt, White-tailed Eagle havørn etc etc.

 As freshwater is starting to freeze it was no surprise that some Whoopers sangsvane dropped in to the "lagoons" at Skogsøy.