Greenfinches feasting on goatsbeard (geitskjegg) (Tragopogon pratensis) seeds this morning!
Category Archives: Birds
Common gull threatening on the balcony!
11pm last night and I opened the bedroom door onto the balcony and a common gull (fiskemåke) decided I was a bit too close to its chick that was somewhere in the neighbourhood and started shouting at me, even landing on the balcony!! I think they had a nest on one of the houses on the hill above me for the first time this year!
Young Hoodie
Young hooded crow (kråke) on a spruce tree in the garden!
Dawn on 20th May 2018
Woken at 4:15 by a newly arrived garden warbler (hagesanger) (or is it just a blackcap?) singing at full throttle in the garden (sorry about the focus, I was half asleep and didn’t notice!). A few minutes later the sun rose as fishermen motored out onto the still fjord.
Record warm spring
We’re enjoying record warm days for the first half of May….today is the 5th day above 20C…. enjoying an early breakfast in the garden 
…..and I can hear new arrivals whitethroat (tornsanger) and lesser whitethroat (møller) singing…
Chiffchaff dance
Chiffchaff (gransanger) in the garden yesterday doing her ancient traditional dance…
New wave of migrants
There was a big arrival of African migrants in the night and this morning I registered my first pied flycatcher (svarthvit fluesnapper) singing in the garden, a group of 5 swallows (låvesvale) hunting insects and a willow warbler singing and flycatching!
Dunnock and Starlings
Starlings (stær) are now established in one of the 35+ year old nest boxes…and a dunnock (jernspurv) has been singing its heart out at the top of a spruce tree!’
Starling singing
A starling singing in the garden this morning
Redwing song
A distant redwing (rødvingetrost) in full song today (high volume required)!
I remember whilst still living in Scotland hoping to hear redwing singing in June in North West Scotland on a summer cycle ride around the coast of Scotland. They are red listed in the UK because of the small breeding population, but just over the North Sea here in Norway they are everywhere. Scottish breeding seems to be declining (climate change?), less common now than when I was there!