More waxwing (sidensvans) videos from the garden. 1) Eating elderberries 2) Displaying flycatching skills 3) A dazed bird on the ground outside the front door; presumably it collided […]
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Female blackaps
A female blackcap (munk) was feeding on rowan berries below the house this morning. I see blackcaps a few times every winter nowadays, an increasingly common overwintering bird, […]
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Jackdaws over the bay and house
A large flock of around 800 Jackdaws (kaie) soared playfully above the bay this afternoon in the cold air (approaching a week of sub-zero C temperatures), probably put […]
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Surrounded by waxwings
I was working in the garden this afternoon when a large flock of some 400 waxwings arrived. They are quite trusting and happily fed on hawthorn berries as […]
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Pine grosbeaks in the garden
Great excitement this morning! I noticed a flock of birds from my desk that landed in a rowan tree. My first impression was fieldfares (gråtrost) and waxwings (sidensvans) […]
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Waxwings on yew
Waxwings (sidensvans) are all over the garden this morning eating various berries. It gives me especial pleasure to see them on the yew tree I planted right next […]
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Greenfinch on burdock
I’ve grown burdock on the balcony this year, the favourite wild winter food of goldfinches (stillits) and greenfinches (grønnfink). I can then watch them feeding from my desk […]
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The return of the waxwings
Most of the thrushes were gone today, replaced by a flock of about 120 waxwings (sidensvans), picking up from where the thrushes left off! The first two videos […]
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Nutcracker juggling with a nut
I didn’t see what happened here until I replayed the video. A Siberian nutcracker (nøttekråke) at the top of a spruce tree must have had a hazel nut […]
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Thrush invasion
Unusually large numbers of thrushes, mainly fieldfare (gråtrost), redwings (rødvingetrost) and a few blackbirds (svarttrost) in the garden at the moment, mainly on the rowans (wild and planted […]
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Up and down
Feeding eider ducks (ærfugl) in shallow water in the bay this morning. One glance they’re there, the next they’re not. Post Views: 85
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Yew berry year and the vine
There are an enormous number of yew berries on the tree next to the kitchen window this year and this video shows how a vine (probably Vitis coignetiae) […]
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Eider serpent
Looking even more like a sea monster / serpent this morning! Around 220 Eider duck (ærfugl) were in the bay this morning. I could hear theirfunny calls from […]
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The Malvik Eider Monster
The Malvik monster swimming in the bay this morning? No, just the resident flock of eider duck (ærfugl), some 80 birds: Post Views: 176
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Rowans and thrushes
Large flocks of noisy (in the positive sense) thrushes in the garden this morning. A flock of a 100 or so fieldfares (gråtrost) and a few redwings (rødvingetrost), […]
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Autumn song
Cool autumn weather stimulates several species of bird to sing in autumn, giving a feeling that spring is in the air for us as well! This morning it […]
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Eiders on the fjord
A flock of almost 100 Eider ducks (ærfugl) in the bay at the moment! Post Views: 128
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Spring again
Yesterday at dawn sounded like spring again in the garden and I heard both woodpigeon (ringdue), robin (rødstrupe), chiffchaff (gransanger) and the two in the videos. The first […]
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Close encounters
I’ve had a couple of close encounters with birds the last couple of days: 1) My local robin (rødstrupe) has been getting braver and braver over the last […]
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Close encounter with a cuckoo
On my bike ride to Ringve today, I saw a bird sitting on the path in front of me. I thought first it was a sparrowhawk that had […]
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Biological control
This chiffchaff (gransanger) is doing its best to control the invasion of diamond back moths (kålmøll) larvae! On cress (karse) and radish (reddik) being grown for seed! I […]
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Woodpigeons and the opium poppy
I love to get up early on Sunday mornings, in particular in the holidays as there are few vehicles on the road, no aircraft flying in to the […]
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Nutcracker song in the garden
Over the last week there’s been up to 4 Siberian nutcrackers (nøttekråker) in the garden. Unsure what they’re eating at the moment as the hazelnuts aren’t ripe yet, […]
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Fieldfare in the garden
Fieldfares (gråtrost) don’t breed in the garden but nearby. After the breeding season, a few forage for the first berries in the garden. Saskatoons / søtmispel (Amelanchier spp.) […]
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Swallows, swifts and a heron
A couple of videos of birds from this morning. First, a group of swallows (lævesvale) and a few swifts (tårnseiler) were hawking after insects above the tree tops […]