And back to earth with a bang. Very frustrating to sit glued to phone/computer during the best week of the spring....
Checked Tjeldstø to a varying degree each day and glimpsed a few bits and bobs from the terrace at home.
Highlight were the two male Gargany knekkand which stayed until the afternoon of 30 April. A pair of Shoveler skjeand also turned up on Husvatnet as did a few Wigeon brunnakke.
On 29 & 30 April some flocks of Barnacle Geese hvitkinngås headed north - interestingly some large numbers of Pinkfeet and Greylag were reported on artsobs at exactly the same time as the main Barnacle movement happened. Credible obs? Highly unlikely. That thousands of geese of three different species passed over the same area at the same time is just too much of a coincidence.....
Lapwings vipe on eggs, several Greylag grågås families now with chicks, Golden Plover heilo stopping up for a break in their migration were other signs of spring.
01 May is traditionally a day for seawatching at Skogsøy. I did not have the chance to do this but made the "mistake" of doing 15 minutes at Solberg just to get an idea about what might be going on. In the short time I sat there I was rewarded with a White-billed Diver gulnebblom and 15 Red-throated Diver smålom. Doh!!
Also managed another Eagle Owl hubro sighting....:)
Checked Tjeldstø to a varying degree each day and glimpsed a few bits and bobs from the terrace at home.
Barnacles hvitkinngås passing Nautnes on 30 April (whilst I was hanging up nestboxes...)
Shoveler skjeand pair on Husvatnet, Tjeldstø
Song Thrush måltrost
Random White-tailed Eagle havørn shot from the terrace
Highlight were the two male Gargany knekkand which stayed until the afternoon of 30 April. A pair of Shoveler skjeand also turned up on Husvatnet as did a few Wigeon brunnakke.
On 29 & 30 April some flocks of Barnacle Geese hvitkinngås headed north - interestingly some large numbers of Pinkfeet and Greylag were reported on artsobs at exactly the same time as the main Barnacle movement happened. Credible obs? Highly unlikely. That thousands of geese of three different species passed over the same area at the same time is just too much of a coincidence.....
Lapwings vipe on eggs, several Greylag grågås families now with chicks, Golden Plover heilo stopping up for a break in their migration were other signs of spring.
01 May is traditionally a day for seawatching at Skogsøy. I did not have the chance to do this but made the "mistake" of doing 15 minutes at Solberg just to get an idea about what might be going on. In the short time I sat there I was rewarded with a White-billed Diver gulnebblom and 15 Red-throated Diver smålom. Doh!!
Massively cropped image of an Eagle Owl hubro being mobbed by a Hooded Crow kråke
Also managed another Eagle Owl hubro sighting....:)
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