Having arrived home well after midnight on the Friday I took things very easy on 29th March. A short visit to Tjeldstø produced most of the usual early spring stuff. Of little or no interest a Feral Pigeon bydue at Tjeldstø was unringed.
Feral Pigeon bydue at Tjeldstø
A drive-by at Kollsnes produced a female Stonechat svartstrupe gathering nesting material was not unexpected but nice to see anyway.
Female Stonechat svartstrupe
Back home at Nautnes a couple of Curlew storspove were displaying and a two Goldfinch stillits joined the usual suspects at the feeder.
The next day I started at Hjelme where a singing Grey-headed Woodpecker gråspett was the highlight and perhaps more unusually a Brambling bjørkefink also sang - the latter normally just a winter visitor and migrant it is not often I hear this species singing in Øygarden.
After this I did my usual stroll at Herdlevør where a couple of Jackdaw kaie were the best bird in a local context. A pair of Curlew storspove had taken up territorty in the usual place and one of the Rock Pipits skæpiplerke on the shore was ringed. At least eight singing Meadow Pipits heipiplerke was an obvious increase since my last visit.
A lunch break of a little over half an hour produced over 200 Common Gull fiskemåke heading north along with a couple of Red-throated Diver smålom. 52 Shag toppskarv headed south.
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