Over the last couple of days there’ve been large numbers of birds in the garden making me think of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, although there have been fortunately […]
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A Charm of Goldfinches
With heavy wet snow overnight weighing down all the plants in the garden together with plummeting air temperature, a flock of goldfinches (stillits) (collectively known as a Charm) […]
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Natural bird food is best
I garden for the birds and other wildlife as well as myself and believe that bought bird food (sunflower seeds) is not necessarily a good thing as it’s […]
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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 […]
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 / 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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Best to keep your distance
It’s best to keep your distance when there’s a red squirrel nearby. Given the chance, a squirrel will take birds. With bramblings (bjørkefink), tree and house sparrows (pilfink […]
Berries / Birds
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Waxwings: soon on the way south?
I also grow Viburnum opulus (krossved) near to the house. This is an uncommon wild species around here. The berries aren’t the first choice for waxwings (sidensvans), but […]
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Snow birds
Two days of snow has attracted a large flock of birds to my bird feeder with some 30 bramblings (bjørkefink) and, nice to see, around 25 house sparrows […]
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Bramblings and nettles
There are many bramblings (bjørkefink) in the garden at the moment and yesterday I noticed them eating nettle seed for the first time! I’ve previously recorded bullfinches (dompap) […]
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Bramblings
As two years ago, large numbers of bramblings (bjørkefink) are overwintering here. This is probably related to it being a beech mast year (bøkefrø). There’s a large copper […]
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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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Brambling song in the garden
I was woken to the simple single-note song of a brambling (bjørkefink) atop a spruce tree in the garden! This is such a characteristic sound of Norwegian wilderness […]
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Large brambling flock
A large flock of bramblings (bjørkefink) in the garden this afternoon, at least 120! This is double the highest winter flock ever recorded in Malvik, but small compared […]
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Birds in the garden 7th February 2018
Marsh tit (løvmeis) Yellowhammers (gulspurv), part of a flock of 11 birds with a brambling (bjørkefink) Hawfinch (kjernebiter) with nuthatch (spettmeis) at the end! Bird diversity in […]
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Large Brambling flock
Over 50 bramblings (bjørkefink) under the bird feeder this morning! Post Views: 87
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More December birds
House sparrows (a flock of 25 taking turns on the bird feeder), with brambling and hawfinch (gråspurv, bjørkefink og kjernebiter): Great spotted woodpecker (flaggspett): Post Views: 122
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Bramblings in the garden
A flock of some 30 bramblings (bjørkefink) were breakfasting in the garden this morning :) Post Views: 90