The first week of February is done and dusted and I cannot say that things have got better yet. A Wood Pigeon flying north may count as my first spring migrant of the year although could have just been an overwintering bird moving between feeding sites and I did have a Greylag a couple of weeks ago that may also qualify for that distinction. Although why either of these birds would be heading north when temperatures are still constantly way below zero is anyone's guess.
A Black Woodpecker gave a nice performance on Thursday as
both it and a Great Spotted were seemingly finding lots of food in some dead
spruce trees. Otherwise it has really just been same old, same old. A trip to
Tromsø this weekend to see Jr fills me with the promise of finding white-winged
gulls and rare eiders but will probably be a failure judging by the lack of records
of anything exciting on either eBird or Artsobservasjoner.
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| this Grey Heron (hegre) had found some open water but I don't think there were any fish for it |
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| whereas this Water Rail (vannrikse) was happy to eat porridge oats that had been put out for it |
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| adult male Goshawk (hønsehauk) back in a favoured tree in Maridalen suggests his mind is turning to the breeding season and we may soon see some display |
And these are still easy to find and for the first time in sunshine:
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