Wonderful rain on the balcony (aka zone 0.5) with oca (Oxalis tuberosa), 9 varieties of lettuce (salat), tomato “42 days” , dill, coriander, toothache pant (Spilanthes), shungiku / […]
Root crops
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Burdock harvest
I have a large bucket on the balcony where i grow greater burdock (Arctium lappa) for the birds, Both goldfinches (stillits) and greenfinches (grønnfink) eat burdock seed in […]
Birds
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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) […]
Birds / Pollinators
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Burdock for goldfinches
I’ve written a series of articles in 3 parts “Fuglevennlige planter i hagen” (Bird friendly plants in the garden) for the magazine of our national bird society (NOF, […]
Birds
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Is feeding birds a good thing?
Feeding birds in winter isn’t necessarily a good thing and at least one study has shown that birds lay lower numbers of eggs when fed well, perhaps due […]
Birds
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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 […]
Birds
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Goldfinch flock returns
They’ve been absent for some time apart from a single bird occasionally. A flock of 6 birds were in the garden most of yesterday: 1) …with Yellowhammers (gulspurv), tree […]
Birds
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Greenfinches sunbathing
Greenfinches (grønnfink) enjoying the sunshine in the garden with a few yellowhamers (gulspurv) amongst the aspen (osp) buds! Post Views: 120
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Grain eaters
With 40-50cm of snow in the farm fields, grain-eating birds are desperate for food. Today, some 30 yellowhammers (gulspurv) and many hooded crows (kråke) and jackdaws (kaie) were at […]
Birds
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Greenfinches on Tragopogon
Greenfinches feasting on goatsbeard (geitskjegg) (Tragopogon pratensis) seeds this morning! Post Views: 98
Birds
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Spring song
Spring can’t be stopped and this woodpigeon (ringdue) could be heard singing from the house today and I was woken at 6am (was 5am) by a robin (rødstrupe) […]
Birds / Flower stalk / Food / Forest Gardening / Root crops
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The many faces of burdock
One of my favourite multi-purpose vegetables and one of my first unusual vegetables that I grew in my garden in the 80s was burdock or borre, more specifically […]
Berries / Birds
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Birds sharing Amelanchier alnifolia “Thiessen”
I always thought that thrushes like fieldfares / gråtrost and starlings / stær “shared” the most saskatoon berries (Amelanchier spp.) in my garden, but now I have to […]
Birds
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Nutcracker and greenfinch
Breakfast in the garden, and a Siberian Nutcracker landed in the tall spruce tree, followed by a greenfinch… Today is forecast to be the year’s warmest, 27C, already […]
Birds
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Birds in the garden
It was difficult to concentrate at the weekend as there was so much happening outside the living room window…here’s a selection of still pictures and videos of birds […]
Birds
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Greenfinch taking food from the bill of a hawfinch
Following up on yesterday’s film, here we see a greenfinch trying to take morcels of seed from a hawfinch (kjernebiter)..I saw this several times today and yesterday…it happens […]
Birds / Seed
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Greenfinch on Jack-go-to-bed-by-noon seed heads!
I noticed these greenfinches / grønnfink in the garden on Jack-go-to-bed-by-noon / geitskjegg (Tragopogon pratensis) eating the seed! Post Views: 117
Birds
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Waxwings and other birds this weekend
A small flock of waxwings in the garden briefly this afternoon Post Views: 116
Birds
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Garden greenfinches
Greenfinches / grønnfink are the commonest finches in the winter here . They find both natural food (seed of burdock / borre and rosa spp., both wild and […]
Birds
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Greenfinches on burdock
Greenfinches / Grønnfink are hard at work in the garden foraging burdock seeds…building up their fat reserves for the winter. I’ve grown burdock for my years both as […]