Kingfisher showing well

It's still very dark and damp but the temperature is slowly falling and from the weekend is forecast to be minus temperatures both night and day. Maridalsvannet continues to host the same birds and the Greylag is still there so did not get eaten by the Goshawk. When the lake starts to freeze it will be interesting to see how long the water birds hang on for.

My thermal camera has revealed both Jack Snipe and Woodcock but these may well be my last for a while if a freeze sets in. A Kingfisher showed very well at Fornebu today where the lone male Bearded Tit seems to be set to spend the winter and a handful of Reed Buntings were very late and may also be intending to spend the winter.

I have spent quite a lot of time looking for owls but have only got as far as spotting the post that the Facebook Great Grey Owl was filmed on.

Kingfisher (isfugl). A nearly all black bill with a pale tip points to it being a male born this year

a fluffed up Reed Bunting (sivspurv)

2 of them

male Bearded Tit (skjeggmeis)

Jack Snipe (kvartbekkasin)

Woodcock (rugde)

Great Grey Shrike (varsler)