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1. maj 2024 kl. 23:10
Win a free Cornell Lab Bird Painting CourseBy Team eBird 30 Apr 2024Jane Kim Northern Cardinal PaintingJane Kim Northern Cardinal PaintingExplore your artistic style and train your eye as you... Read more »
1. maj 2024 kl. 21:09
Birds that swoop or dart to catch bugs in flight are called aerial insectivores—and they need your help.
So, I know I set my expectations (or should that be ambitions) for 1st May very high but even with low ambitions the early start in Maridalen could not be considered a success. I was there by 05:40 which was later than I had planned but there was just nothing moving in the air or anything new on the lake except for a small increase in the number of Tufted Ducks and a new pair of Mute Swans. There was a very weak wind from the north but it was relatively warm (7C when I drove in and reaching over 20C by the late afternoon). It was almost impossible to understand why there was so little to see. After an hour I was ready to move on, either to Svellet or even perhaps just go home and have breakfast. But then.. Bjørn Olav had found a singing! Hoopoe at Fornebu. I was down there in a flash and actually proved to be the twitchiest person out there only to find out that Bjørn hadn’t seen it for 20 minutes. I went looking though and 5 minutes later refound it and most importantly heard it. It is years (decades?) since I have heard one sing and what struck me most is how similar it is to the song of Tengmalm’s Owl. If I had just heard it early in the morning then I think I would have started out looking for a small owl rather than an exotic guest. One can wonder if it was the same bird seen here last year. It is also lacking a tail which may mean it is more likely to hang around. I foolishly decided to leave Fornebu after an hour believing that Maridalen would have now warmed up only to find out that I missed a Great White Egret… But if Fornebu could attract such good bird surely there was something to be found in Maridalen. Unfortunately not, and you may say unbelievably so, although Wood Sandpiper was new, Oslo #149, following a Common Tern, #148, that I got after leaving Fornebu. The video has it singing and note how it throws its head forward Hoopoe (hærfugl) missing its tail first Wood Sandpiper (grønnstilk) always good to see some Beaver at sunrise a Fornebu tick Gadwall (snadderand)!
Af Børge L. Rasmussen på vegne af DOF Fyns formidlingsgruppe DOF Fyn på Tarup-Davinde dagen 4.majDet er blevet forår, og sæson for DOF Fyns Formidlingsgruppes...
1. maj 2024 kl. 16:23
May eBirder of the Month ChallengeBy Team eBird 30 Apr 2024Violaceous Euphonia © Thelma Gátuzzô, Macaulay LibraryGlobal Big DayViolaceous Euphonia © Thelma Gátuzzô, Macaulay Library This month’s eBirder of the... Read more »
DOF Vestjylland arrangerer hvert år Tårnenes Dag, så hvad er mere nærliggende end at gå ind på deres hjemmeside for at få flere oplysninger om arrangementet:...
I takt med en voksende bestand af havørne i Danmark vil flere mennesker kunne opleve drabelige dueller mellem naturens største vingefang. Kløer er trumf i kampene, der kan koste taberen livet.
Happy 1st of May! Today was the first day of our Constant Effort Site (CES) at Cormorant Lake (Skarvsøen) monitoring breeding birds! Although we were very excited to begin the CES program, it also meant...
Så kom den første fangstdag for mig på Gedser Fuglestation for denne gang, og hvor har jeg glædet mig.Den nye besætning fra i dag består af Hans og jeg sammen med Bianca, som har været her et par...
Med østenvind, klar himmel og temperatur der steg fra 11 grader ved solopgang til +20 grader over middag var der nærmest dømt sommerstemning herude mod vest. Det gav en ganske fin ringmærkningsdag...
Today the Biden administration finalized a rule implementing changes to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the bedrock law that guides how federal agencies assess the potential...
30. apr. 2024 kl. 23:29
Since it was first signed into law in 1970, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) has been one of the most important statutes for protecting birds, other wildlife, and communities from the...
I write this on the last day of April and therefore the day before my favourite birding day of the year – 1 May. This day may not statistically prove to be that great but it is a national holiday and I will always be in Maridalen from dawn following the migration. What will turn up tomorrow? Red Kite? Black-shouldered Kite?? Pygmy Cormorant???. Since my last post I have added the following to Oslo 2024: Greenshank #145, Pied Flycatcher #146 and Whinchat #147. So, 150 is definitely a possibility before the end of April. When I first started noting my Oslo list I thought 150 for the whole year was a good result! Migration is delayed this year so we could have some good days ahead of us but unfortunately there is no rain forecast and just lots of sun so there will be no big falls of migrants. In the Dale the swan drama has now settled down with the Whooper Swans on the nest and presumably incubating whilst the Mutes are on the other side of the lake. I cannot wait (a month) to see if the eggs hatch. The male Three-toed pecker was still excavating the nest hole today and hasn’t come very yet. The entire chamber will probably take him a couple of weeks. Svellet is looking scrumptious and now the birds just need to come. 25 Greenshank today was a 400% increase on the day before so it can just keep on going like that for a few days and we will all be happy. variety in the Dale - Common Sand (strandsnipe), Green Sand (skogsnipe) and White Wag (linerle) Golden Plovers (heilo) at Årnestangen my first Oslo Greenshank (gluttsnipe) of the year! I was as surprised as the Snipe (enkeltbekkasin) when I came around a corner and we made eye contanct the male Three-toed Woodpecker (tretåspett) has not come that much further with his nest hole building my first toad of the year first Whinchat (buskskvett) and first Yellow Wag (gulerle) although not in Oslo yet. A male thunbergii and I bumped into this beauty
Vi har modtaget en rigtig fin fortælling om skovhornugler af Chris Seaton - læs den lige her Skovhornugle i skumringen. Foto: Chris Seaton...
Af Jens Peter Bech Det blev endnu en uge med alt for meget kulde og regn. I weekenden ankom varmen dog, med temperaturer op mod 20 grader om søndagen. Varmen satte...
Hej allesammen, we as the part of the team who was going observing today already prepared everything for a long long count yesterday evening, as we were expecting a good morning today. It turned out to...
My first full day on the birdstation, what would it bring? Let?s start with an introduction, I am Michael, 19 years old and I come from the Netherlands. I am a intern at the Blåvand fuglestation and...
I dag var sudste dag for mig i denne periode, så kort blog. Dagen var ret stille i nettene, men dagens højdepunkt var en nattergal. Dagens ringmærkning og kontroller/Todays ringing and recaptures: Jernspurv/Dunnock...
29. apr. 2024 kl. 21:44
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (WASHINGTON D.C.-April 30, 2024) – The National Audubon Society denounced draft legislation approved by the House of Representatives today that would nullify a...
29. apr. 2024 kl. 19:09
One morning this March, Ada Limón looked out the window of her home in Kentucky and saw a bird unlike any she’d ever seen. Limón, the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States, has loved birds...
Den 23. april 2024 smalt det skikkelig i Fredrikstad, da en svartvingeglente ble observert trekkende mot syd. Dette var det første funnet av denne arten i Norge. Fuglen ble forsøkt gjenfunnet, men dette lyktes dessverre ikke.
Hej everyone, When we (Johanna and Mira) left on the 20th of March, we promised to come back soon, so here we are again, only for five days, but we enjoy every second of this little vacation from university...
Jeg regnede ikke med det store i dag pga det fine vejr, men jeg tog fejl. Der var over 30 fugle på den første runde og der efter var det stille og roligt resten af standardtiden. Mads var her igen...
Der var frisk vind på 8-9m/s fra sydsydvest da vi stod op og Maxim og jeg måtte arbejde med lidt færre net åbne i haverne pga vinden. Det gav nu alligevel en del ringmærkede fugle og godt var det,...
Friday was again a quiet day in the Dale as was Saturday and although I had high hopes for today with there being rain the cold northerly wind again meant no obvious arrivals. Tomorrow though… I have visited the Three-toed Woodpeckers again and after following the pair around thinking they were checking out trees suitable to excavate a nest hole in they eventually led them to a tree they have already selected and I was able to watch the male excavating the nest hole. This is the first time I have found a nest hole this early and it will be exciting to follow progress. It is 4.5m up which is higher than I have previously seen but is still easy to view. Whilst excavating the male was entirely oblivious to my presence and I was able to stand under him and have splinters rain down on me. I was on driving duty on Friday night for Jr Jr and friends so I decided to fit some nocturnal birding in before I collected them. It is still too early for the vast majority of nocturnal singers but I did have a Long-eared Owl singing and was able to get very close. It is amazing how quiet the song is close up and it is almost as though the sound get louder the further away you are from the bird. I also heard and then found in the thermal imager a migrating flock of Common Scoters so now feel like a fully fledged novice nocmigger. Svellet is now looking very tasty and although the weather has prevented any big arrival yet there is now an interesting assortment of waders with Spotted Redshank, Ruff, Greenshank and Whimbrel now present. The swan drama in Maridalen has become very interesting with the Whoopers having pushed the Mutes permanently off their nest and one of the Whoopers (the female?) is now sitting on the nest as though incubating. Is she on the Mute Swan eggs? Will they hatch? The Whoopers (and I am sure it is in the same pair) first nested in 2010 and possibly the female is now too old for breeding but she still has the urge to? It is still early in the season though and in previous years I have not seen them on the nest until early May. Also interesting was 5 Grey Heron perched together in trees in Maridalen. Although I saw no sign of nesting it is perhaps a sign that they are attempting to establish a new heronry? Only one addition to my Oslo 2024 list and it was the predicted Wryneck #144. What will come in the next few days? Wood Sandpiper and Greenshank should well turn up and maybe Yellow Wagtail and Redstart. Three-toed Woodpeckers (tretåspett) frequently search for food very low down on trees tongue out the female (white as opposed to yellow crown) feeding on a fallen tree the nest hole - about 4.5m high whilst I was watching it was the male doing the excavating just the entrance has been excavated. It will be interesting to see how long it takes to finish from below Long-eared Owl (hornugle) after sunsent singing from a tree top a Moose encountered in Maridalen one of the Whooper Swans inspecting the Mute Swan nest yesterday (with the female Mute looking on) and here the Whooper pair is seeing off the male Mute and today a Whooper was on the nest whilst the Mutes seemed to watch forlornly from the water a flyby from one of the Whoopers wing tip grazing the water my first, and a most welcome, Wryneck (vendehals) of the year a rare visit this morning to the oxbow lake called Stilla near Lillestrøm revealed this male Pochard (taffeland) that has been around for a week with Tufted (toppand) and also a newly arrived pair of Shoveler (skjeand)
