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The second half of the week has, unsurprisingly, not been able to measure up to the good start but it has offered some good autumn birding. A trip to Nordre Øyeren today in damp conditions revealed a Svellet completely free of waders despite there being lots of attractive (at least to me) mud still showing. There were three Great White Egrets close by though and this is now a characteristic species for the area in the autumns. Despite it now being expected it is still a bit of kick to set your eyes on them and they are still exotic. Bird of today was a calling Red-throated Pipit (lappiplerke) that flew right over my head when I was looking over Snekkervika but it wouldn't stop unfortunately. Also still there were two Red-backed Shrikes (tornskate) which are getting to be quite late. Great White Egrets (egretthegre) - the bird on the right is perhaps an adult with what look like plume feathers sticking out This video shows a dark juvenile Honey Buzzard and an adult Common Buzzard in Maridalen on Wednesday and continue the great run of sightings I have had this autumn a video grab of the dark juv HB and a picture of the pale juv HB that isn't in the video the dark juv HB with a moulting (adult or at least 2cy+) CB In this video of a Black-throated Diver family on Maridalsvannet from Thursday the youngster can be seen being fed small fish juvenile Black-throated Diver (storlom) BtD family Goosanders (laksand) a record breaking flock of 32 Cormorants (storskarv) that flew into Maridalsvannet yesterday and immediately set about feeding (or at least searching for fish) as a flock as can be seen in the video Shoveler (skjeand) including an adult male in eclipse which I don't remember having seen in Norway before and a pair of Gadwall (snadderand) at Merkja today A Nutcracker (nøttekråke) collecting hazel nuts in the garden on Wednesday. They do not eat them but rather fill up their throats/crops and fly many kilometers into the forest with them where they hide them to be eaten during the winter. In the video you can see it taking nuts and also see the bulges in its throat This mink in Maridalen did not seem to have seen me and The Beast sitting only meters away but as can be seen could definitely smell us
11. sep. 2026 kl. 02:00
Nesten halvparten av verdens trekkfuglarter er i tilbakegang, og én av ni er truet av utryddelse. Det viser den nye rapporten State of the World's Birds. I Nairobi samles myndigheter, forskere, naturvernorganisasjoner og finansinstitusjoner for å styrke samarbeidet om å beskytte trekkfuglene og trekkveiene de er avhengige av. Nairobi-erklæringen markerer en felles forpliktelse til å ta vare på trekkveiene og områdene fuglene er avhengige av.
Hello, everyone! I am a new (but very easily recognizable) face to the observatory and blog so this will be my first entry. My name is Laura and as mentioned in a previous blog, I come all the way from...
Ringmærkningen: Whilst the weather seemed perfect (low wind, no rain), there was little movement around our garden. Most likely, the southerly wind made for a bad day for migration. Mainly, we caught...
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– en kærsangers sidste rejse. Kærsanger. (Foto: René Vestergaard) Den 12. juli fik jeg en lille ring fra Statens Naturhistoriske Museum om benet i Gulstav Mose...
10. sep. 2026 kl. 07:00
Report from a BOU-funded project The post Wren evolution in the British Isles: How might island evolution generate patterns of avian diversity? appeared first on British Ornithologists' Union.
Første helgen i oktober er det på nytt klart for EuroBirdwatch – Europas største arrangement for fugleinteresserte. Begivenheten arrangeres i år 3. og 4. oktober. Ta deg en tur ut denne helgen og registrer det du ser i Artsobservasjoner, så er du med!
Our day actually started yesterday...wait! That sounds weird, but that is what happens when we are doing night catching. Like this night at Grenen, where we were very successful. We caught two Common Terns...
10. sep. 2026 kl. 00:00
Today's observations: My day started out with me falling down the stairs of the bird station and lightly stunning a finger on my (thankfully non-dominant) left hand. With my luck for the day seemingly...
Ringmærkning: xxxxx Trækket på Odden: It is very interesting to see how different days at the migration count can be. After yesterday?s cold and wet weather, we had a lot of sunshine but still chilling...
Ringmærkning: Trækket på Odden: It is very interesting to see how different days at the migration count can be. After yesterday?s cold and wet weather, we had a lot of sunshine but still chilling...
When people initially asked me what I loved most about my Audubon Conservation Ranching (ACR) internship, I would always answer that I loved actually exploring California: racing down dirt tracts in...
9. sep. 2026 kl. 22:37
Today, the United States and Mexico signed an important Colorado River Treaty agreement known as Minute 334, extending the modern, collaborative binational relationship through 2028. This is good...
9. sep. 2026 kl. 22:00
Nearly 45 million acres of the nation’s most intact forests—an area larger than Oklahoma—could soon open to logging and road building under a proposal from the U.S. Forest Service. The plan...
Ask any birder to name their favorite birdsong, and you’ll get a variety of answers, from the cheery, rich tunes of the Baltimore Oriole and American Robin to the more musical notes of a Wood...
People are not the only ones who are pestered by wasps during the summer and fall. At Aullwood Audubon, wasps were creating a problem for some of the farms most beloved residents. A creative...
Af Torben Hvass, lokalkoordinator, Projekt Ørn/DOF Fyn Den 19. juli får jeg besked om, at der er opsamlet en havørneunge fra en have i Lundager ved Assens. Ungen...
I have had a couple of very enjoyable and of course successful guiding trips recently. Both were morning outings with the delights of Maridalen featuring in the first trip and the second which entailed a pick up in Lillestrøm worked well to put the spotlight on Årnestangen and Nordre Øyeren. For the Årnestangen trip I was booked as a birthday present from a clearly very loving and thoughtful wife in Panama for her husband who was in Norway on business! We were at Årnestangen on Sunday morning and there were far more birders there than usual with a Pectoral Sandpiper seen the previous day probably being the draw. The Pec was not refound but it turned out to be a good raptor day. Ryan and I had Hen Harrier, Peregrine, Merlin and White-tailed Eagle among others but after we had left a juvenile Pallid Harrier was seen. Pallid Harrier is a species I cannot get enough of. When I was a teenager it did not even feature in the bird books I had but has in the last couple of decades clearly expanded westwards. The reasons are not clear but changes in farming practices in the former Soviet republics are a possible cause with birds having to look for new breeding sites as old ones become unsuitable. I have been lucky enough to find three birds myself but none have been exactly good views. I have twitched a couple of males that spent thesummer one year near Valdresflya and that was a great though damp and grey experience. For a long time I was missing a good, prolonged and close meeting with a juvenile bird though but that came to fruition in 2022 with another twitch but only half an hour from home. Every autumn I visit places such as Nordre Øyeren with the plan of finding a Pallid Harrier but am always disappointed. Yesterday when I decided on another trip to Årnestangen I had the same hope but nevertheless expected to be disappointed. It was a damp start to the day and definitely not classic raptor conditions but there were raptors. First a Marsh Harrier then a Hobby, then the Marsh Harrier again and as I tried to get the scope on it another raptor appeared and it was a juv Pallid Harrier! I assumed it was the same bird as two days previously but later experiences make it clear to me that it could very well have been a new bird (and there seems to be quite a few birds moving through southern Norway in these days). With only the superzoom my digital memories of this fairly close encounter are of course not that great but hey I enjoyed it! juvenile Pallid Harrier (stepphauk) just as striking from above The raptors were far from over in their generous giving though. As I retreated in my steps to try to refind the harrier which had disappeared behind some bushes I looked up and saw an immature White-tailed Eagle chasing a Peregrine. The falcon, an adult, had a wader, probably a Ruff, in its talons and was trying to gain height and fly away from the eagle but the eagle kept catching up and following the falcons every move. The falcon then dropped its prey and the eagle stooped down and caught it mid-air!! I was certain that the Peregrine could out manoeuvre the eagle but maybe the prey was just too large and heavy for it. Impressive flying by the eagle though and something I wish I could have recorded digitally although I was so enthralled watching it that I didn’t even consider lifting the camera. When this was over I then saw that the Pallid Harrier was flying over where I had first seen it and I then hurried back there and out to the end of the peninsula. I chose to watch from the old tower as I thought the elevated position might prove advantageous and it did. I picked up a female Hen Harrier working her way towards me and then she put up the Pallid which must have been resting unseen in the grass! The two flew together for a bit and then disappeared from view. I waited a god while hoping they would reappear but in vain. I then hurried out to the end of the peninsula and as I did so the Pallid flew quickly past and then in true Top Gun style did a fly-by of the tower where I had just been standing!!! 3 of 5 White-tailed Eagles (havørn) female Hen Harrier (myrhauk) the second juvenile Pallid Harrier when it briefly rested before flying off south west I then spent around three hours on the platform at the tip and have to say I was pretty happy with my time there. There were quite a few waders including my first Grey Plover of the year I twice heard a call that matched the recording of Pec Sand that I had on my phone but never saw the bird that gave it although there were clearly many waders that were very hidden as a couple of Lapwing only gave themselves away after I had been there a couple of hours when a Kestrel caused them to call and then briefly fly up from behind a long line of willow bushes. Many of the waders present match what was seen on Saturday to it wouldn’t be a complete surprise if the Pec Sand was also present but well hidden. Bird, if not sighting, of the day was a 2nd winter Mediterranean Gull which I picked up resting with Herring and LBb Gulls before it quickly flew off. This was a species that up until a few years ago was becoming almost expected but has since become rare again. There were also a couple of Great White Egret, a migrating juvenile Honey Buzzard (I have never seen so many as this year which must be proof of a great breeding season) and then another sighting of a juvenile Pallid Harrier. It was suddenly in the air with a Hooded Crow harassing it and then landed for a few minutes and giving good scope views before then flying off south-west over the water and then thermalling over the “mainland” before disappearing. This bird had a different jizz and did not appear to be quite so long and thin winged as the earlier bird making me sure I had seen two different birds. this is the second Pallid and this video has the first Pallid, the female Hen Harrier, both harriers flying together and then the second Pallid together with a Hooded Crow both in flight and on the ground Here is my eBird checklist for the day, a day I reckon will be hard to beat this autumn, or at least until I go to Værøy in three weeks 😊 this Black Woodpecker (svartspett) was in a the final bunch of trees at the end of the peninsula and on three occasion flew out heading south (and otherefore over the water) before each time returning. If 3km of water is too far then it is no surprise they have never been seen in GB a latish Red-backed Shrike (tornskate) and another here we see one of them is carrying a ring and a picture from Maridalen of a migrating juvenile Honey Buzzard (vepsevåk). I know the bird is completely unidentifiable in this picture but you can at least see it is in Maridalen and three Common Buzzard (musvåk) in a tree
Another day with northwesterlies spells boring observations. I am getting quite used to the very slow mornings. I get to practice my humming, cloud recognition and general patience, and sometimes theres...
Happy volunteers on their way to the nightcatch While Simon, Jule and I were walking through Ellekrattet yesterday evening searching for Jack Snipes (Enkeltbekkasin), only flushing two Nightjars (Natravne),...
Ringing: As we have lost our trust in weather forcast apps, every morning starts the same, I go out, look at the clouds, smell the rain, judge the wind and decide from my surrounding if we go out and today...
Regjeringen har stø kurs: Mer vindkraft, hardere utnyttelse av vannkraften, mer olje og gass i sårbare områder, mer utbygging og mer produksjon. Resultatet er at naturen presses fra stadig flere kanter. I Lofoten og Vesterålen ser vi igjen hvordan jakten på mer truer et av verdens mest produktive havområder.
Another early morning started at Kabeltromlen where Jule and I opened the nets at 6:00. The nets were quickly ready and Jørgen Kabel, Simon, their dogs Igor and Odin, our guests and a visiting school...
Observations: Today on obs was another decent day. Johan spent his first day at the September observation point where he had multiple Sparrowhawks (Spurvhøg) and a Gray Heron (Fiskehejre). He also had...
