When it is mid May and I go a whole week without posting
then I think you already understand that I am going to say it has been dire.
The hot, sunny weather continues and there just seem to be
few birds. We have just a looong weekend with Friday being Norway’s national
day and yesterday was a holiday in celebration of Pentecost (don’t ask me what
that is…). We spent 3 days at the cabin at Hulvik which I had expected to
provide loads of good birds but it didn’t for once. A nocturnal trip produced
zero Nightjars or other interesting nocturnal birds (although it was a tad early
in the spring there should have been more) and a sea gaze from before 5am in
what were not bad conditions produced a single Red-throated Diver
migrating north and that was it!!!!
I have added to my Oslo list with Reed Warbler #171,
Redstart #172 and Common Rosefinch #173.
Rain that is forecast on Thursday night and Friday morning
will if the bird gods are feeling generous produce floods of marsh terns, Little
Gulls and hirundines….
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| 3cy+ male Common Rosefinch (rosenfink) |
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| finally Redstart (rødstjert) |
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| male Red-backed Shrike (tornskate) in Maridalen |
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| he had attracted a female and was dancing for her |
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| male Whitethroat (tornsanger) |
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| Hobby (lerkefalk) today |
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| a Sparrowhawk (spurvehauk) trying to chase the Hobby away |
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| an unexpected meeting with a Beaver in the middle of the day today |
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| and even more unexpected was getting close to a fox that was feeding on a long dead Moose carcass in a river |
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