I wasn’t intending to go birding today with other matters
that needed attention but after an errand I found myself close to Oslo’s second
best valley – Sørkedalen and thought that I would give it a drive through
thinking that the time is just right for a migrating Rough-legged Buzzard or
Great Grey Shrike to turn up and sure enough sat on the top of a tree was a GG.
Nice!
Buoyed by this luck I then tried the same in Maridalen but
had to accept that on this day, and this day only, Maridalen may have been Oslo’s
second best valley. The Whooper Swan family showed flying in from the NW (presumably
exploring the area and feeding on one of the many lakes in the forest) and the
young look to have become very accomplished flyers in the course of just a few
days
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| Great Grey Shrike (varsler) |
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| The Whoopers (sangsvane) coming into land |
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| there are great autumn colours at the moment |
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