Sitting quietly working in the garden and there’s always something new that happens…see here!
Category Archives: Birds
Disturbing the peace!
A siberian nutcracker disturbing the peace in the woods :)
Craning their heads?
I heard cranes calling from the fields at Kvegjerdet as I started off into the woods, so went to have a look! They hear my phone at the end and turn (crane) their heads!
Siskin on the yellow melancholy thistle
A small sacrifice (in extra weeding) is to let thistles set seed…I can then watch siskins (grønnsisik) feeding only a few metres away! Here on Cirsium erisithales (yellow melancholy thistle)
Nacotits 2018
My narcotits* are hard at it in the garden :)
*Narcotit (narkomeis): Both great and blue tits (kjøtt- og blåmeis) systematically open the ripe seed pods of poppies (Papaver somniferum) in my garden for the seeds (I first observed this behaviour some 10 years ago)….they are so keen on this novel food supply that one can speculate that they become addicted (there are low levels of opiates in the seed, maybe enough for a tit!)
Spotted flycatcher
Spotted flycatcher (gråfluesnapper) in the garden today!
A scattering of herons
Sitting in the garden working this morning and suddenly a flock of 9 grey herons (hegre) flew past 
A flock of herons is sometimes known as a scattering of herons! (alternatively, a siege, or sedge)
Record Oystercatcher flock!
A flock of 68 oystercatchers (tjeld) flew past the house this evening, by far the largest flock recorded in Malvik during autumn (July onwards) :)
Birds love saskatoons too…
The Saskatoons (Amelanchier alnifolia “Thiessen”) ripened early this year and I was too late netting them against the birds….a young fieldfare (gråtrost) was eating the berries yesterday morning, photographed from where I was breakfasting…blue tits (blåmeis) were also joining in the party…
Greenfinches on Tragopogon
Greenfinches feasting on goatsbeard (geitskjegg) (Tragopogon pratensis) seeds this morning!