The most unexpected bird to appear in my garden was an adult male red-breasted flycatcher (dvergfluesnapper) on 25th May 1995, found unfortunately dead on the door step :(
This is still the only sighting inland in the old Sør-Trøndelag county and the only spring sighting in Trøndelag!
I must admit that I thought it was a robin (rødstrupe)…it was my wife Eileen that said “that’s no robin” :)
Daughter Hazel with Malvik’s ornithological sensation!
Red-breasted flycatcher front view
Red-breasted flycatcher back view
Red-breasted flycatcher dead view
Article in the local newspaper
From the latest bird report from my county…it says that up to 2014 there have been 28 sightings of this species, all apart from ours (which was the first) were on the island Frøya on the outer coast
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