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If you take a stroll down Flores Trail to Los Nogales Nursery, you will spot a small patch of blue flags along the hillside to your left. And much like the rest of our restoration sites, the flags...
While I was away from Oslo The Mighty Svellet has just carried on getting mightier and mightier. On Saturday a new Norwegian record count for Wood Sandpiper was made with 1800 birds counted (the previous record of 1395 birds on 11th May 2021 was of course also from Svellet) and then yesterday the record was smashed again when 2200 were counted!! Today I estimated a minimum of 1750 birds but there were new flocks regularly arriving from the south and others looking like they were leaving to the north so the true numbers were probably a lot higher. Surprisingly no other species passed 100 and whilst the peak passage of Greenshank has clearly passed, the numbers of Ruff, Dunlin and Ringed Plover may still increase. My list can be seen here. I had been hoping for these sorts of numbers (and conditions) but last week really feared it would not happen as water levels rose however they have since then only increased by around 5cm a day and it must be said things are perfect now. It surely cannot last for that much longer so we always have to enjoy it whilst we can. It is a surprise that nothing rare or to be honest scarce has been found but with the distances and lighting being as they are it would need to be something rather obvious like a Black-winged Stilt. Svellet from the east. Water levels have risen a bit but there is still lots of mud and shallow water from the west looking north and looking south. Most birds were to the right of the picture as can be seen in this video: In Maridalen I recorded my 150th Oslo species of the year with Common Crossbill. That it should take so long to see the species (it was also my first in Norway) is because all the cones that caused last year to be so good for the species are now empty of seeds and all the many thousands of Crossbills that were around Oslo 12 months ago are now somewhere else in Fenno Scandinavia where there is a good crop of fresh spruce cones. Today’s birds were a pair though and I heard song so maybe they are thinking of breeding? Regarding the Lapwings I saw a single brood of 4 today which it would be natural to assume is one of the broods I saw last week but as they were so small I am not sure if they are a new brood. There were 8 adults in total with none other seemingly guarding young in the grass but a pair was displaying and nest scraping and another female looked to be sitting on a nest (but not the same nest from 2 posts ago which now seems abandoned).
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Ringmærkningen : Det truede med regn hele morgenen lige fra nettene blev åbnet en halv time før solopgang. Jeg kunne se at det ville starte ved 7 tiden, så jeg håbede at få noget ud af de 2 timer...
Med udsigt til tørvejr og svage vinde byder Skagen Fuglestation, DOF BirdLife og Det Grå Fyr torsdag velkommen til tre dage med Fuglefestival i Skagen. Festivalens program går gennem foredrag, grej til det fri og guidede fugleture. Måske med uventede og sjældne arter i kikkerten, man ved aldrig, hvad der flyver til toppen af Danmark
This weekend was spent with non birding friends at a cabin in the mountains. Saturday was spent watching them play 18 holes of golf which for me, a non golfer, became a 10km, 6 hour birding walk. I recorded 64 species which for an inland location in the first half of May was far more than I expected. The list can be seen here but a very distant Hen Harrier and three much closer Ospreys were probably the highlights. They were also the only raptors I saw and this must mean there are no rodents in the area which does not bode well for future trips to Valdresflye. Valdres Golf is by a lake which makes for some exciting holes and also allows one to watch Black-throated Divers as can be seen in this video. Getting home mid afternoon allowed me a chance to combine giving Jr Jr driving practice and a mini twitch for a Dotterel which eventually showed very well although took a long time to find as it had left the company of the Golden Plover flock it had originally been with and was alone on a large undulating field. a pristine female Dotterel (boltit)
Ringmærkningen : Vi fik vejrskiftet: overskyet og teperatur hele døgnet, med ca 10 grader. Der kom lidt gang i trækket. Specielt Gærdesanager(lesser Whitetroat) og TornsangerCommen Whithetroat). Trækket...
Lidt for voksen til DOF UNG og stadig for ung til Gråkragerne? Stine Duelund Kaas Christensen fra Århus startede sit eget netværk af lokale jævnaldrende fuglekiggere med afsæt i en gruppe på Facebook.
Ringmærkningen : to be written Trækket på Odden : Due to some informatical issues, we were missing some information from the tip for yesterday. Here they are : It will probably not be a day we remember...
Observations: The highlight of this morning was spotting three arctic skuas ? parasitic jaegers [almindelig kjove]. The first one was migrating south, whilst the other two were feeding near the shore...
Today was World Migratory Bird Day, so we decided as a team that we should try and see as many species as possible in Skagen as a team. One half of the team went to Sandklit to do the migration count,...
Today was World Migratory Bird Day, so we decided as a team that we should try and see as many species as possible in Skagen as a team. One half of the team went to Sandklit to do the migration count,...
Ringmærkningen : Dagens ringmærkning kan bedst beskrives som meget beskeden. Tallene og arterne ligner gårsdagens og der er ikke meget bevægelse i krattet....... Vi venter stadig på at der sker noget. Trækket...
Observation: Ringing: Little tern project: Today was again a slow day for the little tern observation. I've only seen three Little terns flying around, which landed a total of six times in the fence....
I frequently am accused of being overly optimistic in my bird forecasts and expectations but I see that my predictions in my last post for Svellet were actually very pessimistic. The wader fest is far from over as the water levels have stopped climbing (at least for now) and there clearly is enough food available as wader numbers which fell on Wednesday rose sharply yesterday (when I did not visit) and were still high today. Viewing conditions are far from great which is par for the course there but today I was able to pick out a Temminck’s Stint although another one on nearby Merkja was much easier to view (as were two yesterday evening which I twitched at Fornebu). Yesterday gave me a non-wader mass bird event and a quite unique one at that. Very large numbers of Willow Warblers have been seen crossing the fjord from Nesodden and they have been then concentrating at Østensjøvannet. It would appear that frost nights to the north (temperatures were under zero on Tuesday evening as we drove home form owling) are stopping the nocturnal migration of the Willow Warblers and they seem to be stopping their northward journey in the Oslo area and then continuing northwards during the day and moving whilst also searching for food. There is not an overabundance of insects yet in Oslo but Østensjøvannet clearly has good numbers. There were over 1000 Willow Warblers as I walked around the lake and every tree and bush was dripping with them. They were also feeding in long grass, on the short grass of playing fields, on a newly ploughed field, on the paths and many were sallying after insects in the manner of a flycatcher from any available perch including fence wires. It truly was an amazing experience both visually and orally as birds were also singing everywhere. There were not many other species that had clearly arrived with the WWs except for Blackcaps which were more common that normal but not in exceptional numbers. That there were lots of insects to eat though was shown by House Sparrows that were flycatching and Bramblings taking insects alongside the WWs in bushes. This video gives some idea of how it was but does not pay the experience the justice it deserves: Svellet 8th May as viewed from the eastern shore and viewed from the west - still lots of mud and shallow water which clearly has more food than I expected after the water levels rose so quickly A really heart warming sight at Østensjøvannet are the Black-headed Gulls (hettemåke) that are nesting again. There are three small colonies (including this one) and scattered single nests around the lake and the total number of nests may not be much more than 50 but this is in stark contrast to last years dire situation but also the 2000 odd pairs that used to breed here. Fingers crossed that there are lots of fledged young in a month or two. There is also a good colony at Sognsvann - it would appear that the two most visited lakes for recreational use are attractive to both humans and gulls - but I have yet to notice any nesting on the fjord so I fear that overall things are not good for the species yesterday and today I could not see a single young Lapwing (vipe) in Maridalen but there is a new nest although as this field was only ploughed on Sunday I am not sure whether she is incubating or just in the egg laying phase and the Mute Swans (knoppsvane) are now finished with nest building and are on the nest although I do not know whether any eggs have been layed yet
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