It is rather difficult to follow up blog posts on Red-footed Falcon and Pallid Harrier and this will in no way compete with them but Hazel Grouse does always help keep up ones humour 😊.
It is very autumnal now and changing weather results
in very different birds. I have concentrated on the Dale the last 3 days with a
hope of some raptor passage but Sparrowhawk, Buzzard and a single Kestrel were
all I managed to see.
On Wednesday there was a large arrival of passerines
with many finches, Mipits, Dunnocks and Chiffchaffs announcing their presence.
There were also 3 Wheatears and a single Whinchat still present but hardly any
thrushes. Single Ringed Plover and Common Sandpiper on the lake were also a
promising sign that an interesting wader may still turn up.
By Thursday there were hardly any passerines to be
found but a few more ducks on the lake included the first Tufted Duck and
Common Scoter of the year.
Today saw hardly any passerines and the diving ducks
had moved on but a total of 15 Common Snipe around the lake was a high local
count. With there being so few birds to see on the fields or lake I decided to
pay my first trip to the forest for a few months and was rewarded with a
singing Hazel Grouse.
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| singing male Hazel Grouse (jerpe) |
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| my first ever autumn Ringed Plover (sandlo) on Maridalsvannet |
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| an early Common Scoter (svartand) - a juvenile with unusually white cheeks |
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| 5 Common Snipe (enkeltbekkasin) |
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