Category Archives: Birds
Drumming in the garden at -10C
This morning it was -10C, but that didn’t stop this great spotted woodpecker from thinking of spring, drumming from this pine tree in the neighbour’s garden!
Bird count weekend
Siskin singing (grønnsisik)
Siskin (grønnsisik) singing in a birch tree as they fed…
Siskin (grønnsisik) singing in a birch tree as they fed…and you can hear a woodpecker drumming in the garden (my first ever in the garden) about 3/4 of the way through
…and here are the pair of great spotted woodpeckers which have chosen to set up home in the garden on the neighbour’s bird feeder tree…I didn’t notice the second bird arriving until I saw the film!
Siskin (grønnsisik) singing in a birch tree as they fed…
27th January birds in the garden
Blue tit (blåmeis) singing
Jackdaws (kaie) resting
Female blackbird (svarttrost)
Siskins
Every day there’s something different birdwise to see in the garden. This morning, a flock of some 20 siskins (grønnsisik) were looking for crumbs under the feeder, but they were soon gone again! (together with bramblings / bjørkefink and redpolls / gråsisik in the videos)
Bullfinches in the garden
Bullfinches (dompap) again feeding on maple seeds, here right outside the kitchen window!
Goldies in the garden
Crows and oats
Put out some oats in the garden and the crows are there in a few minutes! Hooded crow and magpies!
Tail Tits
Long-tailed tits (stjertmeis, meaning literally Tail Tits in Norwegian) forage on natural food far and wide in winter here and I see them only once a year…it’s always a joy to meet them, particularly when I see them from my home office desk! However, they had moved on in a few minutes!
Foraging wren
I hadn’t seen a wren (gjerdesmett) in the garden for a couple of weeks, so it was nice to see one today foraging outside the kitchen. Luckily there’s some snow-free patches near the fjord which will help them find food during the next 4 days of sub-zero temperatures, day and night!