A small flock of waxwings in the garden briefly this afternoon
Waxwings and other birds this weekend
Category Archives: Birds
Redpolls
This redpoll also allowed me to get quite close. This is one of a flock of 30-40 in the garden today together with 10 siskins / grønnsisik.
Treecreeper
This treecreeper has been hanging about the bird feeder…I suspect it’s spending the night in with the food :-)
Quite tame allowing me to get quite close…
Large Jackdaw flock
The largest recorded Jackdaw flock this winter in my area, about 600 birds, circling over the house gaining height to quite a high elevation before flying off westwards…
The temperature hasn’t risen above zero C for two weeks here..
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
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 planted) and bird seed I put out. A flock of about 30 was in the garden today.
Siberian nutcracker and Hawfinch in the garden
Eider calling from the fjord!
I could hear the ah-oooo calls of the male eider ducks on the fjord from the garden this afternoon…made it feel like spring..
Bramblings
The biggest flock of bramblings I’ve ever seen in the garden, over 75, today, 13th December 2015!!
