It’s not often that I see the resident blackcap singing as it usually sings well hidden in the bushes, but today it sang from the top of a […]
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Snow and fieldfare flock
A small flock of fieldfares (gråtrost) turned up in the garden today after a small snowfall. They were feeding on a few remaining guelder rose / krossved (Viburnum […]
Berries / Birds
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Blackcap on Elderberries
A female blackcap (munk) feeding on ripe elderberries (svarthyll; Sambucus nigra). With no heavy frosts so far well into November, two flower clusters have appeared on the tree! […]
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: 119
Berries / Birds
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Yew for redwing
I planted a yew (Taxus x meda “Hicksii”) next to the kitchen window mainly for the birds some 20 years ago and the berries regularly attract blackbirds, fieldfares, […]
Berries / Birds
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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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Blackcap on yew berries
The male blackcap (munk) was this morning feeding on yew berries (a garden variety “Hicksii”). This yew is right next to the kitchen window and has attracted several […]
Birds / Fruit
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Blackcap on apples
At least one, maybe two blackcaps (munk in Norwegian) were foraging on my apple trees most of today. Post Views: 127
Forest Gardening / Fruit / Nut trees / walks / Wild Edibles
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Perennialen III: Alvastien Telste – from fjord to shieling
Documentation of yet another amazing day during last week’s Perennialen III in Hardanger!! Pictures taken on a fantastic 6-7 hour round trip from Eirik Lillebøe Wiken and Hege […]
Birds / Fjord views
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Blackcap in my dreams?
I woke at 4am to the familiar song of the blackcap (munk) which had no doubt arrived with the warmer weather during the early hours…this is very late […]
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Spring choir including Icterine Warbler
On the way to work this morning my first singing Icterine warbler / gulsanger of 2016 at Leangenbukta. The warbler is heard at the beginning with a chaffinch/ […]