The Beans were present and their numbers have significantly increased. Counting them in an undulating field was very difficult and I came up with a minimum of 134. Reading rings was difficult but I had three new birds.
A short stop in Maridalen on my way home turned up 3 singing Skylarks despite there hardly being any bare ground, a flyover Grey Wagtail and the Great Grey Shrike still going strong.
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| After leaving the river the geese split into 2 groups. This flock of 58 on the snow was easy to see and I read a number of rings all of which are shown below |
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| The black ring on left leg shows this to be 07 whose GPS transmitter has stopped working. The solar panel is visible here |
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| 6S which I saw for the first time this year and was one of the original birds I saw here in March 2012 |
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| 6Y with a ringed but non-collared bird. The birds seemed to be paired and is likely to be 3X whose collar has dropped off |
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| 6Y again and 6U |
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| 6Z and 6X who are a pair and blue right (06) with an old GPS transmitter |
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| 6Z and 6X again plus yellow left (04) and blue right (06) again |
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| 3Y |
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| 7V whose is paired to 3Y |
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| the rest of the flock was feeding at greater range in this adjoining field where they could disappear in deep depresions |
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| here looking over to Udenes Church which is the viewpoint for watching the geese on the Glomma Rive which you can see below and to the left of the church. The geese are feeding in fields behind me meaning they have a short journey between roost/loafing site and feeding site |
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| This was my only raptor of the day, a perched Common Buzzard (musvåk) |
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| Maridalen's Great Grey Shrike (varsler) |
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| Maridalen's first Skylark (sanglerke) of the year was singing from this perch |
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| can you make out Grey Wagtail (vintererle) and Skylark? |
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| the fields at Kirkeby, Maridalen where the Skylarks were. Note the ski tracks still visible in the snow |
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