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It’s been a long while since my last post and it has been an infuriating time but I’m sure I’ve written something similar many times before at this time of the year. We have entered what a lull with sunny, dry weather meaning no meaningful arrivals of birds and also difficult viewing conditions especially at Årnestangen and Svellet where long distances and hear haze become a real issue. It is spring though and of course new birds are arriving but it is a trickle and there is no volume of birds. Slavonian Grebes have made their annual visit to Maridalsvannet, a visit that seems to come earlier and earlier each year. Other species that have arrived early are Wryneck, Pied Flycatcher, House Martin and Willow Warbler but raptor migration is still a dream despite me trying from a variety of places – I have yet to see a Hen Harrier let alone a Pallid.. I have just had two good days of guiding with Margie and Greg from Wisconsin where we racked up 85 species with Wryneck, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Ring Ouzel and Rough-legged Buzzard amongst them. Despite us starting the day early it became quite hard going after around noon with the sunny weather causing a real decline in activity. This sunny weather is forecast for at least the next 10 days so I fear that the magical Svellet spring that I was predicting may already be unlikely. The day we do get some rain though could end up being one of those days though. After guiding and drop off at the airport I continued north for an evening in owl land. I twitched a Great White Egret on the way which I actually managed to see from the motorway at 110km/h but did also stop to admire a bit better. Owls are a mixed picture. Ural Owls are giving me my best ever joy with the species with two nest boxes that I have checked now being occupied - this amounts to nearly 10% of the known Norwegian population! Great Grey Owl though is a different story. I again visited the two nests from last year and found no birds by the natural nest. By the platform the female was still present but not on eggs. She is a strange one though and gave herself away by bill clicking when I was still close to 50m away and had not yet seen her. She is clearly territorial. One person who knows a lot more about owls than me reckons it is just still early in the season and that birds will nest and lay eggs whereas another reckons the rodent population has collapsed. Time will tell but unless they lay eggs in the next week or two it will be too late. In the Facebook group Ugler i Norden there are updates from a platform that has a camera watching over it. Here birds were first seen coming to the platform already 22 Feb and mating was observed from 7 April but the first, and so far only?, egg was not laid until 2 months later on 21 April. This to me suggests a pair who want to breed but are finding the food situation very borderline. When in the forests a roadside female Capercaille was a treat and I continue with my tree scratching whenever I see a suitable hole. This time I did get a bird but and a Stock Dove was very unexpected given where I was but why oh why couldn’t it have been a Tengmalm’s? Six Slav Grebes (horndykker) on Maridalsvannet - an Oslo record count! a single bird two days later may well have been in addition to the six Two Ring Ouzels (ringtrost) - it always feel like a big relief when I see these in the spring as it is a species I never feel guaranteed to see in Oslo (but do) female Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (dvergspett) whilst guiding. This bird was making a lot of noise and was I reckon unpaired and getting desperate my first Wryneck (vendehals) of the year and another good bird to see whilst guiding a great looking old Black Woodpecker hole that I was sure would reveal a Tengmalm's Owl (perleugle) but instead and for me very surprisingly revealed a Stock Dove (skogdue). At least my tree scratching skills seem to be OK now. roadside female Caper (storfugl) Great White Egret (egretthegre) Great Grey Owl (lappugle) - the same bird as in my previous owl post Ural Owl (slagugle) - also the same bird as in my last owl post but he she is with her mate (on the left). I have rarely encountered the male at a nest site and then they are normally much shyer than this bird seemed to be. He flew in after the female called and maybe felt he had a job to do and Ural Owl nest #2. This box is old and the bottom starting to fall out perhaps suggesting that whoever put it up no longer checks it and I hope it survives the season Maridalsvannet on Monday morning. Lovely weather but no many birds a very long, straight road in Hedmark's deep forests A pair of Ringed Plover (sandlo) is clinging on at Fornebu and here, and in the video, the male is creating nest scrapes for the females approval. The area they were doing it in was very close to paths and roads so I suspect they will struggle. I finally managed to read the rings on the Mute Swan (knoppsvane) pair that is visiting Maridalsvannet this spring. Surprisingly they are not the same pair that bred last year which have established themselves at Fornebu now. This pair have been seen together since March 2025 when they were at Østensjøvannet but did not breed . The female P576 was ringed as an adult in 28km away in March 2017 so is a mature lady. She bred in 2022 with another mate but did not raise young whilst the male was ringed as a juvenile in November 2023 11km away and is so young that he wouldn't have been expected to breed before now I have also seen Long-eared Owls (hornugle). They were a pair by an old Crow's nest but it did not appear that eggs had been laid yet
Weather at 6.00: NW9, 8°C, 6/8, 20km visibility While the volunteers took a day off and slept in after their trip to Fanø yesterday, I (Henrik) did the morning obs today. The wind had picked up since...
This morning was fairly quiet, but the weather was nice, so we were all out. Julian and János were at ringing this morning. They caught a few more birds than the previous days with some species like Willow...
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Rundt om i verden finnes det naturområder som er helt avgjørende for fuglers overlevelse. Disse får status som Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA), utpekt gjennom et internasjonalt samarbeid ledet av BirdLife International. Dette er områder som spiller en nøkkelrolle som hekkeplasser, rasteområder og næringsområder for fugl.
Ringmærkningen: Overcome with optimism, I guessed 136 birds for this morning. But, even though the first two rounds weren't too bad, with 34 birds in total, I quickly realised that reaching this number...
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Today, Alvin, Dylan, Julian and I went ringing at Kabeltromlen, where we expected a nice, but not too busy day. Alix and János went to worlds end 1 for the standardized migration count. The ringing started...
Medlemmer af DOF BirdLife vil de kommende år stille skarpt på udviklingen i fuglelivet i ny natur. I samarbejde med forskere på Københavns Universitet vil ornitologerne undersøge, hvad nye skove, ændret skovdrift med mere urørt skov og flere beskyttede naturområder vil betyde for Danmarks fugle.
Observations : Ringing : When I went out this morning to open the nets, I was freezing: It was only 3 degrees! Luckily, it heated up soon as it was a sunny day from the early morning on. Sunny days often...
Ringmærkningen: After a day with closed nets, we were very excited to ring again this morning. The morning wind still took our expectations down a notch, and during breakfast we each guessed 56 and 66...
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It was me, Alvin and Saxe on migration count today, and with the easterly winds, expectations were high, and we were hoping for many Harriers. We arrived at Nordstrand 30 minutes before the start of the...
Observations : Unfortunately, due to the rainy weather, we weren?t able to carry out our observations this morning. After the rain, I went down to the dunes to count the resting birds and see if there...
Ringmærkningen: No possibilty to ring with this strong wind this morning... But the nice species we saw yesterday afternoon are still in the garden today, so there is hope for tomorrow. In addition, we...
