Ever the optimists Per Christian and I were
at Hulvik at 0820 before it was even truly light. The wind was strong and from
the SW as predicted and we knew some good birds had been not too fat to the
south yesterday so our hopes were high. As the light improved we were however
disappointed to see very little other than waves. The first hour was in fact
very quiet with 9 Velvet Scoters and a few Little Auks the only excitement.
Then at 0920 we had a really good bird with a monster of a Great Northern Diver
heading south at reasonably close range. Unfortunately we picked it up a bit
late so couldn’t enjoy this local major rarity as much as we would have liked
but it gave us enough energy to keep going. The volume of birds picked up a bit
after this with a total of 3 Kittiwakes and another 20 or so Little Auks most
of which were heading south although a few also went the other way.
We were sea watching from under the cover
of a small pine tree which hosted 3 Goldcrests for much of our vigil. At one
stage I had a bird less than a metre over my head and was just centimetres away
from being able to grab it with my hand. I was able to take some passable
pictures of these little gems although the bad light took some shine off the
final result.
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