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So, tell us about those big owls, I hear you say. Owls are an attractive species for guiding and generally the larger they get the more sought after they are. The occurrence of most species of owl in Scandinavia, and especially the exciting ones, though is correlated with the abundance of rodents which goes in cycles. In the bottom year(s) of the rodent cycle there may be no breeding of owls over huge areas and I have heard of people going on organised trips to Finland especially to see owls and not seeing a single one. In the top years though there can be many owls of a number species and a visit in one of these years will have you scratching your head when other people tell you they were in the same area the previous, or next, year and saw nothing or had to work really hard for their one sighting. After my success with Great Grey Owl last spring I already have people booked to come over for Great Grey Owl this May but have tried to make it clear that there is no guarantee there will be any breeding this year and therefore without a nest to visit it will be very difficult to find any. I have therefore been very anxious as to how it would be this year. My visits to Owl Rd earlier in the spring revealed only a couple of Tengmalm’s and no GG which was in stark contrast to last year however I have heard that it is better further north in Hedmark, or at least in some areas there, and it therefore seems that rodent numbers are varying locally. I decided to keep on driving north to Hedmark on Wednesday after having dropped Jr off at the airport and had an afternoon and evening to see what I could find. It was still very early in the season (2 weeks prior to my visit last year when I found two occupied GGO nests) and I did not find any GGO on nests however I have it on good authority that less than a week before a number of birds could be heard at night including by the natural nest I found last year so the birds are clearly there and have just hopefully not laid eggs yet – a visit in two weeks time will confirm the situation. I did have GG at one site though and the bird which must have been a female came to greet me by perching above me and snapping her bill. So, this bird which while not yet incubating eggs on the nearby nest platform was acting in an aggressive way which clearly suggests that she is at least getting ready to nest. What is important now is that rodent numbers remain high enough for the owls to believe they can raise at least some young to fledging. If rodent numbers are on their way down then the owls may give up on their nesting attempts even if they have been singing and mating. I was happy that I did have one GG under my belt though and the went looking for Ural Owl. I visited the area where I last had breeding birds and a scratch of a tree trunk below a nest box resulted in a female flying out! I really did not expect this to happen for two reasons: firstly Ural Owl females are famous for sitting tight and often not leaving the nest even when the nest box is opened up and two I had really begun to believe there must be something wrong with my trunk scratching technique as it failed completely to work last year with Tengmalm’s even when I knew a hole to be in use. The owl proceeded to land in a nearby tree where it growled at me and called gruffly. I am not sure what the calling was for – maybe to call in the male (who I did not see) or perhaps meant to scare me off. Whatever the reason, I did not stay long and hopefully she quickly returned to the nest. In 4 to 5 weeks if the eggs have hatched then she will perch close to the nest whilst the young may be visible in the nest hole. So, very exciting times are ahead but only if rodent numbers don’t crash. Here a few pictures and videos where you can see the anti predator responses of the female of both species. Greay Grey Owl (lappugle) can you spot the Ural Owl (slagugle)? My trip to Hedmark wouldn’t have been complete without a visit to Starene where there were still good flood waters and lots of geese including Tundra Bean and White-fronted. I do love this site! And I also had Wood Lark at one of their usual locations. Starene Woodlark (trelerke) Some excitement came on the drive home when I saw smoke and blue lights ahead of me and came across a burning car and fire trucks. A check of the map showed that I had not alternative route and just had to sit it out. It was exciting watching the firemen at work and thankfully I was able to find out that nobody had been injured. The car had just started burning whilst I was being driven and the driver stopped and called the fire brigade. Because it was in the middle of nowhere it took a long time before the fire trucks arrived by which time the car was completely ablaze. To illustrate how isolated we were, I was the first car to arrive from my direction which must have been at least 20 minutes after the fire brigade were called and in the 45 minutes I was stuck there only two other cars arrived behind me.
Kurt Due Johansen Kurt Due Johansen har endnu engang udarbejdet en rapport om fuglelivet på Vigelsø. Der er en - som sædvanlig - grundig artsgennemgang og mange...
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After a windy day and having to put some activities on stand-by because of the weather yesterday, today we could resume the normal schedule of ringing and migration counting in the mornings. The migration...
Observations: What a lovely day! Lots of common scoters [sortand] were migrating north ? over 2,500 of them ? plus more than 50 migrating sandwich terns [splitterne] and the first little terns [dværgterne]...
Ringmærkningen: Today marks the first out of nine days I (Alba) will be staying at Gedser Bird Station to help with the ringing, and the birds greeted me very nicely by showing up in large numbers in...
11. apr. 2026 kl. 00:00
Observations: Todays observations can be seen here. A little tern [dværgterne] resting on the beach, by ClaraScientific drawings to recognize the fieldfare [sjagger] from the redwing [vindrossel],...
Ringmærkningen: Trækket på Odden: Today was my (Mathilde's) first day migration counting, so I was very happy Cyann and Louis were there to share their knowledge. We were blessed with no wind, but...
Planerne for fuglestationens feltarbejde præsenteres som vanligt i årets monteringsplan, og er netop lagt op på fuglestationens hjemmeside.
Whilst I was birding Oslo yesterday a message came through that a Stone Curlew had been found at Årnestangen. With under 50 records it is a national rarity and the only previous record in Akershus (it is still to be seen in Oslo) came just last year. This year’s record is interestingly the earliest ever in Norway. It goes without saying that I have not seen one in Norway. I didn’t really consider going for it even though from the photos that were put out it was clear that the bird was at its daytime roost (they are primarily nocturnal birds) and it didn’t move at all until it was almost dark. In other words, it would have been an easy yet very boring twitch. I have to admit that this apathy to twitching is just a tad extreme especially as I do take my Akershus list seriously – I am just 7 species off the lead and everyone who is ahead of me has been birding here for at least a decade and in some cases 3 or 4 more than me so there are bound to be species that will turn up that they currently have over me. I had no expectation that it would be present today (I am more open to day 2 twitching) but whilst walking the dog a message came through that it was again roosting in exactly the same spot. It was far easier today to make the decision to twitch and it ended up being as easy as I expected and also as boring. The bird was watched from a very safe range with lots of heat have and it not doing anything but hey, a tick’s a tick 😊 Årnestangen was otherwise very quiet with only a few raptors on a day that I had expected there to be many although a few Ospreys were my first of the year and a young Peregrine put on an amazing show as it chased and repeatedly dived at a Lapwing before eventually giving up allowing the Lapwing to fight another day. A quick check of Maridalen on the way home revealed the first Black-throated Diver and Wheatear of the year. Stone Curlew (triel). I am still debating with myself if this can be called a record shot but the video shows it better and I did manage to catch the only time when it did something other than sleep and my first Wheatear (steinskvett) of the year on the same stones where I normally get my first bird
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TIRSDAG 14. APRIL KL. 19.30 – 21.30 I dette foredrag tager forfatter og fuglekigger, Mads Bunch, tilhørerne med på enrejse i dansk litteratur, hvor fuglene spiller en vigtig rolle.Fra Sten Steensen Blichers “Trækfuglene” via Boganis “Jagtbreve” (Karen Blixensfar) til Karen Blixen, Martin A Hansen og Thorkild Bjørnvigs forfatterskaber.Til sidst vil Mads tale lidt om fuglenes […]
Because of the strong easterly winds, there was no ringing today. I went to Nordstrand for the migration count to meet Knud and later Julian joined us. There was only little passerine migration, and the...
It was too rainy and to windy this morning to carry out the observation and ringing sessions! At least, it gave us a chance to rest a bit ! It was actually nice for everyone to get a few extra hours of...
Ringmærkningen: It was a windy morning around the tip, with a strong south-easterly breeze, so we decided to open only the most sheltered nets, which gave us 153 metres. In addition, the radar showed...
It was too rainy and to windy this morning to carry out the observation and ringing sessions! At least, it gave us a chance to rest a bit ! It was actually nice for everyone to get a few extra hours of...
Yesterday saw me watching some big owls very well in Hedmark and I will come back to them in a day or so but first an update from a good days birding in Oslo. Every spring the car needs its service and I use this carless day to go out to the islands and today was that day. I only visited Gressholmen but it was a good trip even though it is still way too early for anything that exciting. However 3 Slavonian Grebes at close range were, as always, a treat and they even displayed a bit. These, a Green Sandpiper and a Great Grey Shrike which even sang a bit were all Oslo’s first records of the year.. After this a trip to Middelalderparken failed to reveal anything rare among the few hundred gulls bathing there (although turnover is clearly high so things can always turn up). A very pale mantled Lesser Black-back and a yellow-legged and slightly dark mantled Herring Gull got some attention. I also managed to fit in a trip to Østensjøvannet before the car was ready to be picked up and thankfully didn’t need any additional work doing to it. Slavonian Grebe (horndykker) pair This video has lots of display and interaction between the birds And this short extract shows some interesting display with what seems to be the unpaired bird trying its luck before being chased off. Note how it dives under water and then starts penguin displaying which gets a positive response from the other bird before its mate turns up look at the reflection of the black head feathers all 3 birds which were a pair and I believe a male the pair of Smew (lappfiskand) still at Østensjøvannet the yellow-legged Herring Gull that isn't a Yellow-legged Gull... this pale backed Lesser-black Backed Gull (sildemåke) is ringed and its life history and other pictures suggest is an intermedius with some pigment problems (note that the primaries are not black) rather than a graellsii Great Grey Shrike (varlser). It was intently staring at the ground in an area with lots of Water Vole holes but I did not see it catch one which would also have been a large prey item I only discovered this Greylag Goose nest when it hissed at me as I almost stood on it this young Herring Gull looks to have got some paint on it there were 6 Ringed Plovers (sandlo) on Gressholmen which probably represent the entire Oslo breeding population And a video of a drumming female Lesser Spotted Woodpecker from earlier in the week
9. apr. 2026 kl. 17:39
We all know the early bird gets the worm, but how does he find it? That American Robin in your neighborhood park—how did it dig up the juicy nightcrawler dangling from its bill? After all, worms...
It was a nice day with calm winds, plenty of sunlight, and a beautiful sunrise. This morning Alix, Julian, János and I woke up early to go ringing. While we were setting up the nets, Julian spotted a...
Den ældste havørneunge kræver at komme først til fadet, når forældrene kommer hjem med føde. Den mindste bliver tit skubbet væk, men det er naturens orden, at ørneopdragelse handler om den stærkeste ret. Klik ind på DOF BirdLifes direkte ØrneTV og se familielivet udspille sig med tvillinger i reden. Den første unge kom til verden 1. april, den anden så dagens lys d. 3. april.
9. apr. 2026 kl. 00:00
Observation : The ducks have finally decided it?s the right time to migrate!It was the first day with real movements and gatherings of migrating ducks (apart from the common scoters [sortand]).Thomas...
Ringmærkningen: Fuglene sang blidt i haven fra morgenstunden, men første runde med ret få fugle, tydede på en noget roligere dag i nettene. Vi fik skrabet 21 nye ringe sammen, og blandt genfangsterne...
