Thursday, April 14, 2022

Øygarden 13 April 2022 - Taking things easy

 Another day of nice weather - the forecast rain didn't come until much later in the day and there wasn't much even then.

In order to try and get stuff done both at home and work I limited todays outing to a brief check of a few places. I heard my first singing Chiff-chaffs gransanger with at least three birds establishing territories at Alvheim.

Guillemot lomvi on the sea in front of my house

Lapwing vipe at Kollsnes


Oystercatcher tjeld at Tjeldstø

Woodpigeon ringdue at Harkestad

Tjeldstø was relatively quiet but the first Redshank rødstilk of the year for this locality turned up along with Wheatear steinskvett and White Wagtail linerle. A few Lapwing vipe were displaying and a Skylark sanglerke was in full song - there is always a chance this species could breed at Tjeldstø away from the main stronghold at Breivik.

From the house the best sightings were a Guillemot lomvi on the sea and a roding Woodcock rugde in the evening.

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