Nice to know that I can still hear the very high pitched call of the goldcrest (fuglekonge) aka Regulus regulus. That’s what alerted me to their presence in my largest Norway spruce (gran) trees in the garden this morning. Astonishing that Norway’s smallest bird manages to survive this cold (only one day above zero C since New Year) and largely on natural food, only rarely coming to bird feeders. A couple of bad pictures grabbed from a very shaky film I made of a female (yellow crest):
Daily Archives: February 8, 2021
Mallard in the Bay
The biggest flock of mallard (stokkand) this winter were in the bay this morning, about 180 birds. A single slavonian grebe (horndykker) was also diving further out and a heron (gråhegre) was hunting amongst the seaweed from the shore.