Some people have been complaining about the weather. There is nothing wrong with the weather and in fact it has been about the best it could be for some of the birding in the area around Øygarden and Bergen with southerly winds and rain dropping a lot of migrating birds.
I had a great day of guiding on 10th August, choosing to start at Herdla where there was a good variety and decent numbers of waders. The waders were rather more flighty than normal, this was down to some raptors that were in the area. A Sparrowhawk spurvehauk and at leasr two White-tailed Eagle havørn were present. Waders included a minimum of eight Greenshank gluttsnipe, several Ruff brushane, nine Bar-tailed Godwit lappspove, a Knot polarsnipe and many more.
After Herdla we covered some inland locations picking up some noisy Nutcrackers nøttekråke, Whinchat buskskvett, Spotted Flycatcher gråfluesnapper, Tawny Owl kattugle, Grey Wagtail vinterlerle and more.
After this is was back to work but a drive-by at Tjeldstø the following evening gave a couple of Greenshank gluttsnipe, a Redshank rødstilk and a Ruff brushane. Strangely a Tufted Duck toppand turned up again after quite a period of absence - were they gone or just hiding somewhere?
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