Store Færder pictures

I am now back home after an eventful last day on Store Færder. The number of birds ringed fell from 13 on Friday to 10 and then just 3 on Sunday which I think goes down in the record books as the worst three day streak ever!

I had lots of photos and videos of mostly waders to process and have got my best shots of a number of species. It was novel to be able to get so close to species that I usually see at very long range at wetlands like Nordre Øyeren.

Little Stint, Sanderling, Knot, Dunlin and Turnstone all showed very well and I will publish rather too many photos...

Little Stint (dvergsnipe):

Little Stint (dvergsnipe)

Sanderling (sandløper):

Sanderling (sandløper)

together with Dunlin (myrsnipe)

Turnstone (steinvender):

Turnstone (steinvender)

Knot (polarsnipe):

Knot (polarsnipe) and a Dunlin - the size difference looks huge here but doesn't seem so big in the field

Knot in flight with a couple of Dunlin underneath

Dunlin (myrsnipe):

Dunlin (myrsnipe)

Common Seals (steinkobbe):

Common Seal (steinkobbe)

much variation in colour

Shags (toppskarv) and a couple of larger Cormorants (storskarv)

Shags

a ship passing in the night

Jupiter and 4 of its moon and Saturn which were visible at the same time along with Mars

I was trying to capture the Milky Way but that hasn't come out in the picture but there are a lot of stars out there!

size differences - Little Stint, Knot & Dunlin

there were some passerines - here Lesser Whitethroat (møller) and Willow Warbler (løvsanger)

Peregrine (vandrefalk)

Pied Flycatcher (svarthvit fluesnapper)

and Redstart (rødstjert)