With a car at the garage it was time to use the bus and I
chose Fornebu as my destination. I almost immediately had a feeling that it was
going to be a good day when walking over a piece of waste ground and had three
Golden (heilo) and two Ringed Plovers (sandlo). I then went searching (in vain)
for Great Snipe (dobbeltbekkasin) in some rough grassland where I have had them
in previous years and scared up a Jack Snipe (kvartbekkasin) – things felt
good....
However it didn’t continue at the same tempo and although I
did have good birds like Redstart (rødstjert), Water Rail (vannrikse) and a few
tringa waders it wasn’t as good as I hoped. Today there was high cloud cover
and occasional sunshine which did cause an increase in bird activity and song –
I had Willow Warbler (løvsanger), Blackcap (munk) and Lesser Whitethroat (møller)
singing close to the house in the morning – but the raptor movement that I had
hoped might occur after a period of eminently raptor unfriendly weather didn’t
happen.
There were lots of Wheatears (steinskvett) at Fornebu today
but I couldn’t find a single one with such a broad tail band as yesterdays
strange bird – I have a nagging doubt about it.....
Jarl Nystrøm rang me today to say that Svellet has even more
waders than yesterday – 31 Dunlin (myrsnipe) and at least 600 Greenshank
(gluttsnipe) – so I can’t wait for my next chance to visit.
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this Little Ringed Plover (dverglo) was quite photogenic |
One of my better quality videos although the bird doesn't do so much
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the most trusting of three Golden Plover (heilo) resting on waste ground at Fornebu |
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Golden and Ringed Plover |
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all three Golden Plovers |
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Two each of Golden and Ringed |
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male Redstart |
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singing Twite (bergirisk) at Fornebu |
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female Wheatear (steinskvett) - showing much thinner terminal tail bar than yesterdays dodgy wheatear |
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