Thursday, June 16, 2022

Nautnes 15 June 2022 - More bird flu and work

 More of the same really. Stuck at home in front of the computer with work as another dead Gannet havsule floated in....


A video from yesterday showing one of the birds that was collected for testing

....and today's victim - obviously something had been eating it.
Let's just hope the infection does not spread to other species. White-tailed Eagle havørn, Crows kråke, Raven ravn and others may be next .....



An unseasonal Whooper swan sangsvane was again on Rotevatnet, Tjeldstø. Even more unusual was a pair of Whinchat buskskvett at Breivik - in a Norwegian context this species is absurdly rarer as a breeding species than Stonechat svartstrupe in Øygarden!

At Nautnes the usual suspects such as White-tailed Eagle havørn at Otter were seen. A singing Blackcap munk and a Nuthatch spettmeis were more unusual. A Crested Tit toppmeis in my garden was also unusual - although common enough in the surrounding woods this species rarely actually coes into my garden.

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