Pretty much the first bird I saw was a Wryneck which was
sunning itself in the dead bush normally favoured by a Red-backed Shrike and
later in the morning the Wryneck had been substituted and a shrike was in the same
place. Tw of my all-time favourite birds in the same bush means the birding day
has been a success. In the same small area were 3 Redstarts, 4 Spotted
Flycatchers and 4 species of warblers so it felt very good and spurred me to
check the rest of Fornebu with high hopes only to find out that the small area
held nearly all the birds there were to find!
On the water in Storøykilen I saw the Little Grebe that has
been present for a week or so and in the reeds I heard the Water Rails calling
so tried to see them. I settled down in a good place and waited. I had two
birds (possibly three) calling very close by but only managed to see one bird.
It was actually quite close but the encounter was so brief that I just managed
a blurred photo.
A short stop in Maridalen gave me just a single raptor but
it was a new one for the autumn namely a Kestrel.
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| Wryneck (vendehals) with a curious Willow Warbler (løvsanger) |
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| Wryneck |
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| Red-backed Shrike (tornskate) |
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| same shrike |
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| Reed Warbler (rørsanger). note long primary projection and weak supercilium compared to the Blyth's Reed from Maridalen |
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| my first migrant Chiffchaff (gransanger) of the autumn. Note the short primary projection compared with the Willow Warblers I have photo'ed recently. This bird also pumped its tail a lot which is a good Chiffchaff character and first drew my attention to it |
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| a blurred Water Rail (vannrikse) |
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| Wheatear (steinskvett) |
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| very distant Little Grebe (dvergdykker) |
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| Three Greenshanks (gluttsnipe) |
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| yet another caterpillar of Bedstraw Hawk Moth (hyles gallii) (mauresvermer). Note the ant hitching a lift |
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| My first Kestrel of the autumn in Maridalen with three Swallows mobbing it |
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| a load of bull in Storøykilen |
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