A good mornings birding at Kurefjorden was what the doctor
ordered. On the way down I drove through some rain showers and started to get
very excited that there could be an arrival of new waders. That was wishful
thinking but there was still a lot to see.
A recently harvested field by the access track down to
Rosnesbukta was alive with pipits and amongst 300 or so Meadow Pipits (heipiplerke)
in the area were also at least one Red-throated (lappiplerke) and a handful of
Tree Pipits (trepiplerke). I at one point had a couple of Tree Pipits perched
on wires amongst Meadow Pipits which gave a good chance to compare them and see
the difference in hind claw length: Tree has a shorter hind claw than Meadow.
There were lots of waders in the bay with 105 Dunlin
(myrsnipe) and 101 Ringed Plover (sandlo). For once (genuine) Black-tailed Godwits
(svarthalespove) outnumbered Bar-tailed Godwit (lappspove) with two of the
former and only one of the later although there were another two Barwits later
in Nordre Ovnbukt. Both the Blackwits were juveniles and the well patterned tertials showed them to be of the islandica race. Numbers of Ruff are falling with only 9 left and the only calidris of note was a single Little
Stint. Along the reed fringed stream that drains into the bay the Water Rail
(vannrikse) was again showing well and a single Bluethroat (blåstrupe) kept
popping out of the base of the reeds.
Raptors were surprisingly scarce with just a Sparrowhawk
that was hunting the pipits and a juvenile Marsh Harrier inland quartering the
fields.
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| juvenile Marsh Harrier (sivhauk) |
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