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My last full day was again a day where the weather forecast was thankfully wrong and the 11m/s winds that were being forecast were replaced with often windless conditions. Unfortunately there was still a lack of new and exciting birds with one very obvious exception. Yesterday evening Kjell and Stein had driven to the north of the island whilst I stayed in the south. When they were leaving as it was getting dark a Hoopoe had flown up in front of the car only to vanish. I drove out at sunrise this morning and the bird was by the road in exactly the same spot! I was able to drive back and collect the other two and we saw it well at a distance before it suddenly walked off the edge of the road and just vanished which is quite good going for such an obvious species as a Hoopoe. A good couple of hours later as we were trying to get views of a skulky warbler the Hoopoe flew over us but again just disappeared after looking to land 100m away. We never found out what the warbler was and only ever saw it in flight for a couple of seconds but Blyth’s Reed would be the most likely candidate. Otherwise the Wood produced a Redstart although I would have preferred something similar with blue in the name. The Rosefinch was still present but I finished the day without a Yellow-browed Warbler which is good going on Værøy! I leave at 1330 tomorrow and will take the ferry to Bodø before flying back to Oslo. I chose the ferry as it gives the chance of seabirds such as shearwaters and petrels. The forecast is for strong winds though which can make for a very uncomfortable crossing so I may be spending most of time bent over the toilet… I will hopefully get some birding in before I leave as long as the winds are, again, less than forecast. Hoopoe (hærfugl) Today’s sunrise at 07:33 The ferry I will be taking tomorrow Looking to the south On the left is the Wood (skogen) and to the right the area where bird ringing is carried out
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EuroBirdWatch med åbent hus på Gedser Fuglestation og fokus på trækfugle. Vi viste ringmærkning og træktælling for 75-80 gæster. Her sidder Alba i fuglestationens have og sætter ringe på fugle,...
Ringing: Let?s get back to another slow day at ringing in Blåvand! Myself, Strummer and Storm manned the ringing team and apparently that was more than enough. We kept spirits high but only got visited...
EuroBirdWatch med åbent hus på Gedser Fuglestation og fokus på trækfugle. Vi viste ringmærkning og træktælling for 75-80 gæster. Her sidder Alba i fuglestationens have og sætter ringe på fugle,...
Day 4 was weather wise pretty much perfect for being in the field and far better than the forecast. Often there was no wind at all and you could hear the noise of a warbler’s bill snapping at an insect. There were only a few indications of new arrivals and it was not a big day by any stretch of the imagination but it was a good day to be out and about and 16,000 steps were pounded. Experience of the day was a pod of Killer Whales powering through the sea off the north of the island early morning. Bird of the day was a Common Rosefinch (only my third on Værøy and a species that is close to but not annual out here). Learning of the day was that I cannot tell Olive-backed and Tree Pipits apart on call. These two species were traditionally considered inseparable on call but in the last 10-20 years it has been accepted that with experience you can tell apart. Based on my experiences and observations on Værøy I also thought I could but today that confidence came crashing down. I heard a pipit calling in flight and immediately identified it as an OBP. I had my phone ready to play the call and straightaway the pipit appeared above me calling and the call was as far as I was concerned the same as I was playing. It landed on the fish drying racks just a few metres away and I immediately set about taking pictures. Head on it did indeed look like an OBP with a black spot on the cheek but as it turned sideways on to me I thought the wing bars looked far too white and I wasn’t seeing any green tones. Then when it turned away and I saw the well streaked back I realised without doubt it was a Tree Pipit. This whole experience made me immediately realise my OBP record from yesterday had to be pulled and also had me wondering how I could have got it so wrong. OBP in late autumn outnumbers TP on Værøy by around 10 to 1 and therefore identifying a bird as OBP based on call and then confirming it by seeing it is statistically very likely to happen. Had I (we) just been playing the numbers? I don’t know the answer to that but a Tree Pipit in October is rarer than an Olive-backed so I should perhaps be happy with my observation. Other quality birds were a single YbW, Jack Snipe, Bullfinch, a tristis Chiffchaff, proper Barnacles Geese from Svalbard (rather than the feral birds around Oslo) and a Short-eared Owl and quantity was provided with hundreds of Redwings and Redpolls. The view at 0715 - it all looked very promising Sunrise at 07:29 Migrating Barnacle Geese (hvitkinngås) Looking north at 08:08 with the island of Mosken and behind it the Lofoten island chain Killer Whale Not an Olive-backed (sibirpip) but a Tree Pipit (trepiplerke) Jack Snipe (kvartbekkasin) Common Rosefinch (rosenfink) The wood (skogen) suffered in a storm a few years ago and all the trees in the middle have now disappeared leaving just a ring of trees. The Rosefinch was in the too of the tall Rowans to the right Very Grosbeak like A Common Snipe (enkeltbekkasin) doing an impression of a Jack by freezing at close range
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Ringing: Today we reached 30 birds of 11 species. Most notably was this beautiful female Bullfinch (Dompap), that looked adult in the net, but on closer inspection had a clear moult limit in the wings,...
Yesterday evening, we already checked the weather forecast and wondered if today might be the headstart into a exciting October at Skagen Fuglestation. Actually, the day started slow. Ringing started...
Ringing Observation: Although the weather today seemed promising, it was another relatively quiet day on the dunes. Nice numbers of gannets (Morus bassanus) and red-throated divers (Gavia stellata) today,...
Ringmærkningen: Yesterday evening we were really excited what this morning would bring. A drastic change in wind direction usually brings new birds (wait a bit...) and it looked like the rain would end...
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Today was the day that was expected, based on the weather forecast, to be THE day. However, as is often the case, the Bird Gods had other ideas. It was a very nice to be out and the steps were put in (although only 16,000 today) and the wind was from the east but it was a case of more birds leaving than arriving with for example the Little Bunting and Turtle Dove not to be seen. I did have a fly over Olive-backed Pipit (no photo) and took photos and video of both Yellow-browed and Barred Warbler but these are pretty much the bare minimum of what you expect here on Oct 1st. Yellow-browed Warbler video: Barred Warbler video taken from the balcony of Værøy Bird Observatory aka Kjell’s house. Yellow-browed Warbler (gulbrynsanger). After hearing a bird in the same area yesterday I got to see one today and the photos are at least better than I managed in Maridalen Barred Warbler (hauksanger) Værøy makes Oslo Birder feel welcome Two late Swallows (låvesvale) with the military installation known simply as “Nato” in the background Just a view Sunrise at 0718 looking east to the mainland Looking north
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Ringing: Today I was joined by Storm in the lab, since Johan was sick. We had an okay varition of birds, including some new ringing species for Storm, and a new species in the net for the season - the...
I do not know where to start to be honest. So much happened today, I just want to write all about it in one sentence. The morning did not give us high hopes because the wind was crazy. Me and Jule decided...
Ringmærkningen: En første runde med lidt mere end 13 fugle gav os håb om, at i dag ville blive bedre end i går. Dette håb blev da også opfyldt, men kun lige, da vi i løbet af standard nåede op...
Ringing: *Loading* Observation: Holy s**t, today was (unexpectedly) amazing! The wind has been pretty much the same the last couple of days, that being eastern and south-eastern winds. Now, eastern winds...
Ringmærkningen: xxxx Trækket på Odden: En fin dag med et blandet træk, som lidt uventet løb op i flere tusinde fugle. Vi var to fra fuglestationen, som fik selskab og assistance af Orla Jakobsen,...
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