Amazingly enough the Hume’s Warbler is still present and seems to be going strong. Yesterday it was -6C and bright sunshine and it was very active high in sunlit birch trees where it seemed to find plenty to eat. Today it was one degree warmer but snowing and it had joined up with a flock of Long-tailed Tits and was very active following them around and covered a much larger area than the previous days. At one point a tristis Chiffchaff joined it but the Hume’s chased it away whilst calling which suggests it has high energy levels.
Otherwise I located Bearded Tits in two reedbeds
with a minimum of 22 birds which is the highest number recorded here since
spring 2005 when up to 40 birds were seen. A White Wagtail was a very
unexpected find and my latest observation in the Oslo area by a good margin.
I have been neglecting my beloved Maridalen but a quick
visit revealed that ice is now covering some of the bays (the salt water bays
at Fornebu are now completely frozen) and a Pygmy Owl was sat a top a small
spruce tree looking like an xmas decoration.
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| the Hume's Warbler (blekkbrynsanger) in the sunshine yesterday stretching out to take what looks to be a tiny spider. |
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| decidedly different conditions today |
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| this male Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (dvergspett) was in the same trees as the warbler yesterday and show absolutely brilliantly |
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| the Beardies were not as photogenic when the sun shone |
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| very late White Wagtail (linerle) |
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| Pygmy Owl (surveugle) |
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| there are still some apples hanging in the garden which Fieldfare and Blackbirds predictably are eating but also this female Great Spotted Woodpecker (flaggspett) |
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| and some Waxwings (sidensvans) |
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| these Greenfinches (grønnfink) were begging to be photographed so I obliged |
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