I didn’t get back to look at the Tawny Owls (kattugle)
yesterday evening but was there again this afternoon. I initially saw or heard
no indication that the owls were present but a glance over my shoulder revealed
a youngster sticking its head out of the nest box! I then started filming this
when an adult called and flew into a nearby tree and from the warning calls of
many passerines the other adult wasn’t far away. I got to film both adults and
one youngster and could hear that there was at least one more youngster in the
nest box. I had a great time with them with bill snapping and hypnotic swaying
of the head. I also think that the film is one of my better even though I could
only record about 10 seconds at a time before a problem with either the camera
or memory card meant that the filming just stopped.
Also in Maridalen I had good views of the young Lapwings (vipe)
and managed to count five before they all hid underneath their mother. Little
else really although an Osprey (fiskeørn) briefly showed and a singing Pied
Flycatcher (svarthvit fluesnapper) showed really well although was in a dark
spruce wood so wasn’t easy to photograph.
In the morning I “did” Fornebu with Julian Bell. Although I
added Garden Warbler (hagesanger) and Reed Warbler (rørsanger) to my 2014 year
list I found it to be disappointing. I had hoped to turn up species like
Red-backed Shrike (tornskate), Common Rosefinch (rosenfink) or Bluethroat (blåstrupe)
but I will have to wait until next week for these species I think. We did have
a fly over Temminck’s Stint and an Osprey so there were some good birds. A male
Roe Deer was surprisingly unaffected by our presence and walked to within 20
metres of us.
As could almost be predicted on the one day I didn’t check
out Svellet (where water levels have now risen 10cm) a Broad-billed Sandpiper
(fjellmyrløper) was found in the evening – what did I wish for yesterday?!
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| male Roe Deer |
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| young Tawny Owl |
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| adult Tawny Owl - this bird was keeping watch and called a few times |
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| 2 Lapwing chicks seeking safety, the legs of some of the others can be seen under the right wing of the mother |
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| lots of legs |
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