With a polar low (polarlavtrykk) on its way, hooded crows (kråker) struggled on their way in to the roost this evening against the wind:
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Hoodie has a scratch!
Hooded crow (kråke) having a nice old scratch, peering down to the photographer!
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 the bird feeder where I’d put out some grain this morning!
Jackdaw acrobatics
A flock of some 150 jackdaws were having fun this morning playing acrobatics in the wind!
Young Hoodie
Young hooded crow (kråke) on a spruce tree in the garden!
Large jackdaw flocks
With the mild weather and bare patches on the fields, it’s good times again for the crow family…it seems that, by the over 300 jackdaws (kaie) counted resting in the bay before flying into the roost a km or so west of here on Friday and 250 flying over this afternoon, that overwintering hasn’t been so bad after all!
The flock on Friday was the lagest registered this year in our area!
1 and 2. Part of a flock counted from videos of 310 Jackdaws (kaie) resting in the bay on 23rd March with about 100 hooded crows (kråke)
3. A large flock of about 250 Jackdaws flew over this afternoon
Crows and oats
Put out some oats in the garden and the crows are there in a few minutes! Hooded crow and magpies!
Eagle breakfast
A white-tailed eagle (havørn) joined me eating breakfast this morning, sitting on the rocky shore on Malvikodden on the opposite side of the bay with what looked like a fairly large fish, surrounded by hooded crows (kråke) waiting for a few titbits..
Crossing Eagles
Resurrecting some old pictures from November 2010 when a White-tailed Eagle pair circled over the garden, one picture forming a cross!
Eagle fly past
Malvik is on the north edge of a large low pressure system over the UK giving southern Norway a lot of snow and strong easterly winds here, the house creaking as we speak! Much warmer today at -8C, but bitterly cold because of the wind chill. My garden is quite exposed and the small birds disappear to more sheltered spots on days like today. Rushed out to get these pictures of a White-tailed Eagle / Havørn, you can get an impression of its size against the Hooded Crow / Kråke
