My guiding yesterday morning was an enjoyable and successful affair. I wanted to show Barry and Nadine from Switzerland the best that Oslo had to offer at the end of October and of course we had to start with Pine Grosbeaks. We found 30 birds in three three flocks with just a single adult male among them but we got to see some of them very well. We also had a number of other commoner forest birds including Brambling, Redwing and Nutcracker. Next stop was the sea where a lot of birds would be new for someone from a land locked alpine country. Kittikwake, Razorbill, Guillemot, Red-throated Diver, Red-breasted Merganser and Eider were all noted and most seen well.
Today I tried the fjord hoping that there might be
something interesting to find on a much flatter sea than lately. The only bird
of real interest I saw was a very distant tern (any would be good in November)
which looked to be a Common but was just too distant to be certain. Grozzas
continued to entertain in Maridalen but the most unexpected sighting was a Guillemot
sitting on a wet road in the forest just after a heavy rain shower. The wet
road had probably looked like water and the bird had decided to pitch down but
without help it was a gonna as they cannot take off from flat land. I didn’t
have the time to take it to the sea so released it on Maridalsvannet where it
seemed to have a lot of energy (see video) so will hopefully reorientate itself and survive.
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| Pine Grosbeak (konglebit) |
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| male Brambling (bjørkefink) |
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| an adult Kittikwake (krykkje) - this is the only adult I have seen this autumn and it was probably not in good form |
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| Razorbill (alke) with some vegetation around its wing |
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| the Guillemot (lomvi) I saved having a good wash |
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