Following up on yesterday’s film, here we see a greenfinch trying to take morcels of seed from a hawfinch (kjernebiter)..I saw this several times today and yesterday…it happens […]
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Sparrowhawk
With so much food in the garden, the predators were out too! Post Views: 81
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Hawfinches and Nuthaches
A flock of 8 hawfinches, a couple of nuthatches, 20 goldfinches, chaffinches, greenfinches and blue and great Tits made for colourful views in the garden today! Post Views: […]
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The Goldies are back!
The Goldfinches (stillits) are back. They are winter visitors here and, as far as I know, it isn’t known where these birds breed, perhaps in the Baltic states […]
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Long-tailed tits
I see long-tailed tit (Aegithalos caudatus) (Norw: stjertmeis) in the garden usually only once each winter. Unlike most tits, they wander during the winter…and a small group of […]
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Swifts do stay aloft for 10 months!
Proof that swifts (tårnseiler) can stay in the air without landing for 10 months at a time has been announced and they can live for 20 years which […]
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Waxwing videos
Today there were around 200 waxwings / sidensvans in the garden most of the afternoon and I saw them eating berries on Sambucus nigra, Viburnum opulus, Berberis, Crataegus […]
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Norway’s best breakfast…view!
Scandic Nidelven hotel (background in these pictures) Trondheim has won an award for Norway’s best breakfast 10 years in a row…no wonder when the guests have this bird’s […]
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Jackdaws in free fall flight
I love Jackdaws / Kaie, particularly for their playfulness and aerobatics, like this over the house today! Post Views: 103
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Jackdaws fly towards the red sky
Jackdaws (kaie) fly every morning to breakfast which is served in the fields to the east of here…standing on my bedroom balcony, there’s suddenly a pressure wave as […]
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Waxwings on elderberry
A flock of some 100 waxwings / sidensvans were feeding this morning on elderberries /svarthyll in the garden! Enjoy! Post Views: 133
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Pink-footed geese migration
Two flocks of pink-footed geese (kortnebbgjess) passed over the house today…on the way south from the stopover area just north of here…this morning it was -8C and the […]
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House sparrow house insect catching
Sat at my desk and a house sparrow / gråspurv is catching insects on the warmed up house wall…. Post Views: 87
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Long cycle forage to the shops
As I was working from home yesterday and not doing my normal bike ride, I decided to do a longer ride over the hills to the post office […]
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Tame snipe
I’ve never been able to get as close to a snipe / enkeltbekkasin before. Rather than flying off it just ducked down into the water :) Taken with […]
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Swallows in cold weather
A large flock of some 200 swallows / låvesvaler feeding very low over a barley field this morning. The air temperature was only +5C….. Post Views: 116
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Oystercatcher family
Oystercatcher / tjeld family at Grilstad, taken on my bike ride back from work! ;) Aster tripolium (syn Tripolium vulgare) / sea aster / strandstjerne bottom right in […]
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Wheatfield swifts
I passed this large flock of mainly swifts over a wheat field at Være on my bike ride yesterday :) Click on the link to see the video! […]
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Posing Heron
A very tame heron hunting in the Copenhagen botanical garden in June: Post Views: 131
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Scruffy Siberian Nutcracker
There’s always something to distract me here. This morning it’s a Siberian Nutcracker (sibirsk nøttekråke) sitting atop a pine tree in my Hazel woodland (the reason it’s here), […]
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Swift attack
I heard a few swifts (tårnseiler) yesterday evening, so put on my swift attracting CD (I have a nest box on the house) and in no time they […]
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The next generation: white wagtail
White wagtail (linerle) is a common bird throughout Norway. Last week I took these shots in the garden…the adults were finding food on my veggie plots and feeding […]
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Chiffchaff enjoys diamond backs
I was taking a picture of my second Crambe cordifolia (heartleaf crambe / buskstrandkål) flowering for the first time in the garden from my bedroom balcony. I noticed […]
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House sparrow: better late than never
While eating breakfast this morning I spotted these house sparrows (gråspurv) eating diamond back moth (kålmøll) larvae from the undersides of these ragged jack kale plants, sown as […]
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Black throated divers
On a late evening trip up Vennafjellet, the closest proper mountain from home and we passed a small lake with a pair of black throated divers. Heavy rain […]