At -10C It was slightly warmer today. Strangely
enough this was the temperature no matter where I was today unless of course
the thermometer in the car is up the creek.
At breakfast I could tell that the big garden still
hadn’t food in its feeders as I had 40 House/Tree Sparrows and 3 Blackbirds in
my garden. By lunchtime though they there were fewer birds and when I later
allowed the Beast to sniff outside the fence of the big garden I could see that
the feeders had just been filled and birds were coming back. I had the female
Blackcap again and a pair of Collared Doves on my travels.
Elsewhere, at Østensjøvannet I had excellent views of
the Water Rail which is eating food put out for it just a couple of metres from
the path. A huge (ca.400) flock of Redpolls on a couple of feeders on a balcony(!)
contained at least two arctic – what I would give for that balcony…
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| Blue Tit (blåmeis) |
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| Coal Tit (svartmeis) |
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| Great Tit (kjøttmeis) |
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| the Maridalen Marsh Tit (løvmeis) |
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| Willow Tit (granmeis) |
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| Nuthatch (spettmeis) |
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| arctic Redpoll (polarsisik) at Østensjøvannet |
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| the same arctic on a feeder |
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| a different arctic |
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| just look at all those redpolls (there were 400 in total!) |
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| Little Grebe (dvergdykker) |
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| there is only a tiny area of open water left at Østensjøvannet and it was stuffed with 200 Mallards (stokkand) all hoping I had some bread |
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| I tried to get arty by lowering the shutter speed |
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| this Robin (rødstrupe) was eating a maggot that had been thrown out for the Water Rail |
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| Water Rail (vannrikse) |
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| here with a maggot |
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| here eating porridge oats that I had thrown out |
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