Not much birding lately due to working and lack of daylight, but today I could twitch White-fronted Goose for my Bergen list. A group of 24 nominate birds was present at Milde.
White-fronted Goose albifrons
Dec 29, 2016
Dec 2, 2016
California november 2016
In november we travelled southern California. We hired a RV and drove from San Francisco to San Francisco, roughly through Yosemite, Mojave and Joshua Tree deserts, San Diego and the Californian coast back. It was a family holiday and the birding was great; the avian highlight was a visit to Santa Cruz! 75 lifers and some 175 species during the trip.
Saw the two endemics Yellow-billed Magpie and Island Scrub Jay. Managed also to see Californian Gnatcatcher, Scripp's Murrelet, thousands of Black-vented Shearwaters and Cassin's Auklet. And of course Greater Roadrunner.
Commonest birds were Acorn Woodpecker, White-throated Sparrow, Audubon's Warbler (extremely abundant), Eurasian Starling, House Sparrow and House Finch.
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Island Scrub Jay
Saw the two endemics Yellow-billed Magpie and Island Scrub Jay. Managed also to see Californian Gnatcatcher, Scripp's Murrelet, thousands of Black-vented Shearwaters and Cassin's Auklet. And of course Greater Roadrunner.
Commonest birds were Acorn Woodpecker, White-throated Sparrow, Audubon's Warbler (extremely abundant), Eurasian Starling, House Sparrow and House Finch.
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Greater Roadrunner
Raven
Yellow-billed Magpie
California Scrub Jay
White-crowned Sparrow
Western (left) and Clark's Grebe
Black-throated Sparrow
Black Oystercatcher
Brandt's Cormorant
Glaucous-winged Gull
Herman's Gull
Hermit Thrush
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Northern Elephant Seal
Sea Otter
Harbour Seal
Oct 9, 2016
Hawk Owl
There is a big invasion going on of Hawk Owls in southern Norway. Didn't see them so far, but today two showed well on Radøy!
one of the two Hawk Owls
Oct 5, 2016
YBW still present
The Yellow-browed Warbler was (as it was yesterday) today present i my garden!
Yellow-browed Warbler again
Oct 3, 2016
Yellow-browed Warbler again!
After I heard one Yellow-browed Warbler FROM my house two weeks ago, I had one IN my garden today!! It called only once...The fourth in my neighbourhood this year so far!
Oct 2, 2016
Herdlevær
After a week of very bad weather, a nice day with lots of sunshine. Went out to Herdlevær for two hours of birding. The nets were out and I missed on a new Little Bunting, but I got this nice autumn gem. Don't see it that often in the hand...
Yellow- browed Warbler
Sep 18, 2016
Yellow-browed new for my house list
Today I heard a Yellow-browed Warbler from my house. It called twice and I didn't hear it again. This was nr 93 for my house list. Further every day one or two Treecreepers and some flyby Meadow Pipits
Aug 18, 2016
Wader season
Today on Herdla. The wader season has started. The weather was too good, but it was not bad at all with a juvenile Black-tailed Godwit, three Sanderlings touch and go, a Wood Sandpiper, a Ruddy Turnstone, a Little Stint, some fifteen Curlews and the usual Ringed Plovers and Dunlins. Some birds quite close...
first year Ruff
first year Golden Plover
Aug 16, 2016
a bit of the Netherlands
The last period was a busy one with lots of working, bad weather and hence little opportunity to go out. So holidays were very welcome. We went to Schiermonnikoog, our favourite wadden isle in the Netherlands. It was a typical family holiday, but I got out with my brother and some friends to do some dragonfly and butterfly watching.
Typical august stuff with the traditional Gull-billed Terns in the north of the country. We saw three or four individuals, one of which was a juvenile. Further Whiskered, Little and Sandwich Terns. A juvenile Mediterranean Gull was quite north for the species. A good bird for Schiermonninook was a Purple Heron. Off course, loads of waders present, but the only worth mentioning were the Kentish Plovers.
At the Weerribben (famous for the thousands of dragonflies and damselflies) we saw Spotted Darter Sympetrum depressiusculum. This dragonfly has a recently discovered population in the north of the Netherlands. It was a new one for me, being my 59th for my dutch list. Furthermore some beautiful Broad Scarlets or Scarlet Darter Crocothemis erythraea and some more common species...We also saw a Grass Snake Natrix natrix.
Typical august stuff with the traditional Gull-billed Terns in the north of the country. We saw three or four individuals, one of which was a juvenile. Further Whiskered, Little and Sandwich Terns. A juvenile Mediterranean Gull was quite north for the species. A good bird for Schiermonninook was a Purple Heron. Off course, loads of waders present, but the only worth mentioning were the Kentish Plovers.
At the Weerribben (famous for the thousands of dragonflies and damselflies) we saw Spotted Darter Sympetrum depressiusculum. This dragonfly has a recently discovered population in the north of the Netherlands. It was a new one for me, being my 59th for my dutch list. Furthermore some beautiful Broad Scarlets or Scarlet Darter Crocothemis erythraea and some more common species...We also saw a Grass Snake Natrix natrix.
juvenile Gull-billed Tern
Sandwich Tern
Purple Heron, a goodie for Schiermonnikoog
Sanderling
Spotted Darter
Broad Scarlet/Scarlet Darter
European Map Araschnia levana
Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria
Peacock Inches io
Banded Demoiselle Calopteryx splendens
Black Darter Sympetrum danae
Grass Snake Natrix natrix
dutch skies
Apr 6, 2016
Little Egret, not in Hordaland
The last few days a Little Egret was present at Sveio (Hordaland). Today I had free and drove to Sveio. I couldn't find it on the old spot. But after an hour searching a fellow birdwatcher found it in Haugesund at the Førlandsvatnet, just in Rogaland.
New species for me for Norway (298), but not for Hordaland.
New species for me for Norway (298), but not for Hordaland.
Little Egret
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