Lesser whitethroat (møller) singing in the garden with a blue tit (blåmeis) joining in. In the second video you can hear snatches of the subsong. Lesser whitethroats overwinter […]
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Robin’s fiend #1
My friend the robin’s worst fiends are all the neighbour cats…..and he/she has young to protect now.I hear the robin alarming before I see the cat. Post Views: […]
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Icterine warbler and Brambling
A few days ago it was snowing, today it could reach 20C for the first time this year! And the warmer southerly winds has brought in a new […]
Birds / Trees
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Singing Brambling
Bramblings (bjørkefink) are common breeding birds at higher elevations, but it’s just possible that they will breed here one day. This is the closest I’ve got with a […]
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Common gulls house hunting
A pair of common gulls (fiskemåke) testing the neighbour’s chimney for size this morning: Post Views: 108
Birds / Ferns / Garden tour / Garden views / Perennial vegetables
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A tour of the lower parts
I thought I’d take you for a tour of the lower parts of the garden including the forest garden. No commentary, let’s just listen to the birds and […]
Birds / Fjord views / Snow
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Third day of snow
3 mornings in a row new snow has greeted me, but it mostly melts again during the day. I’m feeling for people in the north where the arctic […]
Birds / Spring / weather
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3 swallows don’t make it summer
I was surprised yesterday to see my first swallows of 2020, 3 of them hunting in the garden for a few minutes. We’re experiencing the coldest weather this […]
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Close dunnock encounter
I’ve never been this close to a dunnock (jernspurv) before. They are normally really shy and although they sing every spring I have no sightings of young birds […]
Birds / Fjord views
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The wild dawn call of the Curlew
I am so fortunate every year to hear the song of the curlew (storspove) singing in the bay from early April and through most of the summer, sometimes […]
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Large Arrival
Following the blizzard like conditions over the last two days the low pressure system moved away eastwards and a high pressure ridge with light winds built up over […]
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Resident coal tits
For the second time a pair of coal tits (svartmeis) have taken up residency in the garden. It’s not often I see them as they don’t come to […]
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3,590 Pinkfeet
One of the highlights of spring for me are the large flocks of pink-footed geese (pinkfeet) or kortnebbgjess in Norwegian passing Malvik on the final stage of their […]
Biennial / Birds / Snow
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Summer Time
We put the clocks forward last night. It’s now Summer Time! However, nature is thinking otherwise and from flowering crocus, snowdrops and wild Hepatica nobilis (blåveis) everything is […]
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First geese
The first pinkfeet (geese) / kortnebbgås passing over last night! Post Views: 114
Birds / Fjord views / Sun
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Dawn chorus of one: 23rd March 2020
A woodpigeon (ringdue) singing the dawn in this morning. Post Views: 95
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Silent Spring?
Not in the way Rachel Carson was thinking back in the 60s although that crisis (the biggest one) is also lurking under the surface too….but the current crisis […]
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March Waxwing
I’ve only twice before recorded waxwing (sidensvans) in March here. They arrive in large numbers in October and November and are usually gone again by the end of […]
Birds / Fruit
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Nervous blackcap on apple
A male blackcap (munk) in the garden feeding nervously on an apple that a fieldfare (gråtrost) has been guarding attacking any bird that gets near. …and then demonstrating […]
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February Blackcap
A blackcap (munk in Norwegian) was foraging the last yew berries this afternoon outside the kitchen window. Post Views: 122
Birds / Onions
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Redpoll workers
Today at the Ringve Botanical Gardens I found the Allium garden was full of little workers eating the masses of birch seeds that had fallen during the winter….saving […]
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Record early Robin
Ever since I moved here in 1984, it’s been one of the year’s highlights to hear the first robin (rødstrupe) singing in the spring and I’ve recorded this […]
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Store mengder kaier
Årets største registrerte kaie flokk i Trøndelag ble sett fra huset i ettermiddag, rundt 750 fugler (ja, jeg telte!) i to grupper over Malvikodden og Malvikbukta. De er […]