Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Tjeldstø 20 February 2024 - Lunch-break birding

Rather grey and wet most of the day but the rain stopped for a couple of hours around lunchtime.

A walk at Tjeldstø with #2 daughter gave an unseasonal Kestrel tårnfalk as the best sighting. A couple of Starling stær turned up, a Robin rødstrupe sang and the Greylags grågås are starting to make a bit of noise - so all in all a bit springlike. The Mistle Thrush duetrost also put in a brief appearance again.

Otherwise just a Rock Pipit skjæpiplerke and a huge flock of over 20 Blue Tits blåmeis.

A minimum of four White-tailed Eagles havørn were in the area and I even tried taking a picture of one of them with my point and pray. It was a bit of a rush to get the camera out and switched on but the results weren't too bad at all given the conditions.



 
The point and pray did well given the conditions - the auto setting almost always has too slow a shutter speed for flight shots but there was no time to fiddle with settings.


More eagles seen from my terrace later in day along with a Great-spotted Woodpecker flaggspett actually in my garden (garden is too big a word for it!).
 

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