More Good Guiding

This week’s blog posts have proved too tempting for some (that is after all the point of me blogging so don’t be shy 😊 - ikke vær redd for å kontake meg hvis DU vil ha en guidet tur for å se noen av disse eller andre arter) and I guided Benoit today to try to relive the excitement of Monday & Tuesday. We were nearly completely successful although the Grey-headed ‘pecker alluded us.

One Pygmy Owl, two Three-toed Woodpeckers, 2 Black Woodpeckers and a singing Hazel Grouse were the highlights on a cold but very enjoyable morning. We only heard the Hazel Grouse but yesterday I got to see it rather well.

After Benoit headed home I stopped by one of the Hawk Owls for the first time this week and it showed well in the sun so I am definitely not complaining about how this Friday has panned out so far! 

I had a trip to Østensjøvannet on Wednesday and here is the eBird report including pictures

Pygmy Owl (spurveugle) 

Three-toed Woodpecker (tretåspett) - one of two males we saw. One was with a Black Woodpecker and the other with the Pygmy Owl

Today's dose of Hawkiw

male Hazel Grouse (jerpe) from yesterday. Today we only heard it

singing

singing head on

50 Shades of Brown - a Treecreeper (trekryper)

and a Wren (gjerdesmett)