Today I checked out the Oslo vibe. It is quite warm at the
moment and in the morning there was no wind so it was once again a fantastic
autumn day. There were a number of Bullfinches in Maridalen which were mostly
heading west and there was frequent trumpet calls from them so it looks like
the invasion of eastern birds is increasing. There are still numbers of
Crossbills to be heard and I also had a pair on the church ruins at Kirkeby
which I think intended to find minerals from the stones but my presence
probably deterred them. Great Spotted Woodpeckers were also very noticeable
with birds drumming and squabbling presumably as they mark out territories and
I ahd four together on a telegraph pole. Highlight in Maridalen though was a
Great Grey Shrike which has probably been present for a couple of weeks but had
so far eluded me (I suspect that it covers a large area possibly not just
confined to Maridalen). It showed well and its barred underparts showed it to
be a 1cy bird.
With the windless conditions I also checked out the
Oslofjord from Huk and had a few auks (4 Razorbills and 12 Guillemots) but very
few seaducks and no divers or grebes.
This time of the year can turn up interesting birds
especially after storms but the weather forecast is for very settled weather
the next week so I don’t have much confidence that there will be too much to
look forward to for a while.
Common Crossbill (grankorsnebb) pair in Maridalen |
they flew down onto the church ruins and seemed to have a desire to go further down maybe because there was a source of minerals? |
Great Grey Shrike (varsler) in Maridalen |
it had a lot of wires to choose from! |
4 Great Spotted Woodpeckers (flaggspett) and a telegraph pole |
Guillemot (lomvi) |
the same Guillemot with the old lighthouse and now restaurant of Dyna Fyr in the background |
1cy Razorbill (alke) with young Great Black-backed Gull (svartbak) and young Herring Gull (gråmåke) |
the Razorbill was hunting a shoal of small fish which jumped out of the water when it dived. This in turn attracted a number of gulls including this adult Herring Gull |
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