A large flock of some 200 swallows / låvesvaler feeding very low over a barley field this morning. The air temperature was only +5C…..
Category Archives: Birds
Oystercatcher family
Oystercatcher / tjeld family at Grilstad, taken on my bike ride back from work! ;)
Aster tripolium (syn Tripolium vulgare) / sea aster / strandstjerne bottom right in the water near the end :)
Wheatfield swifts
I passed this large flock of mainly swifts over a wheat field at Være on my bike ride yesterday :) Click on the link to see the video!
Posing Heron
A very tame heron hunting in the Copenhagen botanical garden in June:
Scruffy Siberian Nutcracker
There’s always something to distract me here. This morning it’s a Siberian Nutcracker (sibirsk nøttekråke) sitting atop a pine tree in my Hazel woodland (the reason it’s here), checking out the ripeness of the nuts and declaring ownership!
Swift attack
I heard a few swifts (tårnseiler) yesterday evening, so put on my swift attracting CD (I have a nest box on the house) and in no time they were dive-bombing the house and inspecting the box…maybe they will remember next year! My favourite birds!
The next generation: white wagtail
White wagtail (linerle) is a common bird throughout Norway. Last week I took these shots in the garden…the adults were finding food on my veggie plots and feeding a young bird perched on the outhouse roof :)
Chiffchaff enjoys diamond backs
I was taking a picture of my second Crambe cordifolia (heartleaf crambe / buskstrandkål) flowering for the first time in the garden from my bedroom balcony. I noticed this chiffchaff (gransanger) presumably gorging on diamond back moth larvae (kålmøll). It then moved across to a horseradish, another plant in the Brassicaceae with plenty of food. Both plants are in my book!
House sparrow: better late than never
While eating breakfast this morning I spotted these house sparrows (gråspurv) eating diamond back moth (kålmøll) larvae from the undersides of these ragged jack kale plants, sown as a salad crop, but long since given up to the moths… Better late than never I suppose!!
Black throated divers
On a late evening trip up Vennafjellet, the closest proper mountain from home and we passed a small lake with a pair of black throated divers. Heavy rain and low light (10 pm) is my excuse for the picture quality :)
