The first time a siskin (grønnsisik) decided to pay me a visit, found yesterday inside the house (a young bird)! Post Views: 85
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 […]
Birds
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Goldfinches and Burdock
I grow burdock (borre) in the garden both as a vegetable but also for the birds. Goldfinches / stillits (still relatively rare in my area) eat almost exclusively […]
Birds / Seed
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Siskins dining on the roof
It was fun this morning watching a flock of up to 80 siskins (grønnsisik) with a few house sparrows (gråspurv) feeding on birch seed that had fallen on […]
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The pitter patter of birch seeds
The pitter patter of birch seed bracts (or scales) as you can hear at the beginning of the video can only mean one thing here, a large flock […]
Bees / Birds / Dandelions / Edible flowers / Insects / Perennial vegetables
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Dandelions for bees, beetles and birds
Before my D.A. (Dandelion Awakening) I would religiously remove and cut down as many dandelions as I could, but nowadays my garden perennial beds are full of them. […]
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Siskin on the yellow melancholy thistle
A small sacrifice (in extra weeding) is to let thistles set seed…I can then watch siskins (grønnsisik) feeding only a few metres away! Here on Cirsium erisithales (yellow […]
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White-tailed eagle..and the airport
White-tailed eagle (havørn) in flight past Malvikodden Note that you can see Trondheim (Værnes) airport in the background…this is where eagles were flown out and over to the […]
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Bird count weekend
Over the weekend of the national garden bird count (hagefugltelling) the temperature was stable between -1 and +1C. I registered 23 species in the garden, 7 of which […]
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Waxwings and siskin
Waxwings (sidensvans) and siskin (grønnsisik) foraging under the bird feeder today. With siskin and tree sparrow seen today, that brings this week’s species count to 21 species in […]
Birds / Seed / Trees
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Siskins and birch
Birch seed scales are currently falling in the garden thanks to the feeding of siskins (grønnsisik)…. Added videos of a siskin feeding on fallen birch seed next to […]
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Waxwings and other birds this weekend
A small flock of waxwings in the garden briefly this afternoon Post Views: 116