Weekend Birding

Friday’s glorious sunny weather continued into Saturday but today saw a return to the fog and in addition to it being harder to see birds there also seems to be far less avian activity.

Yesterday I was driven around by Jr and we ended up at Fornebu where I got to see Elvis, aka The King, aka the King Eider MUCH better than on Wednesday although it was still at a range of 1.2km so cannot really be seen in binoculars, or a camera view finder for that matter.

It was also possible to grill the 300 or so Velvet Scoters but I couldn’t find any with knobs although if this flock continues and attracts more birds as spring approaches then the chance of White-winged Scoter of either species must be more than miniscule. A Scaup was the best of the rest.

the King Eider (praktærfugl) is definitely identifiable in my pictures now and the black sails help you to find it even when the whole bird is not on show

two Little Grebes (dvergdykker) were also added to the year list

and a Scaup (bergand)...

a few of the many Velvet Scoters (sjøorre)