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Yesterday it blew again from the south so I gave sea gazing a go again. Two young Little Gulls battling into the wind were my reward which I must admit was better than I had hoped for but otherwise there were no birds that seemed to have been blown in. I watched from Torkildstranda by Drøbak which allowed me to sit warm and dry (it was bucketing it down at times) in the car and may become my new go to sea gazing spot. In the video you will see the bird flying past a couple of windsurfers. When it blows around Oslo and you decide to sea faze you can almost guarantee that you will also see wind surfers but very few other people. Birds and wind surfers must be the only people who scour weather forecasts looking for storms. the first 1cy Little Gull (dvergmåke) the second and my sea gazing position The Pygmy Owl in Maridalen showed in the rain as it tried to shelter by the trunk of a tree. It was really wet and looked very unhappy with one eye open and the other closed. the damp Pygmy Owl (spurveugle) here using the flash which highlights how wet its head is very bedraggled Three videos - the first is a long edit of it in the rain and the other two short clips showing specific beahviour The Marsh Tit continues to show well and continues to do very little to give itself away. A hybrid was documented genetically (a world first!) on the other side of Oslo from 2020 - 2023 and I guess this bird could possibly also be a hybrid (based purely on it giving the species specific call so infrequently) but I see nothing in the plumage to suggest so. Marsh Tit is declining all around Oslo so the chance of hydridisation will probably increase if lone birds do not find a mate. In my previous post I wrote that the closest population to Oslo was in Lørenskog but no birds have actually been reported from here since 2018 illustrating the decline of the species. I keep attempting to take good comparison pictures of the two species and am perhaps getting slightly better at: both the Willow Tit (granmeis) on the left and the Marsh Tit (løvmeis) are nearly in focus although it would have been nice if both were in profile darn twig and if you can't get them right next to each other in the view finder there is always photoshop and the Marsh Tit on its own From next week we are forecast to have negative temperatures and perhaps snow which will hopefully shake up things on the bird front.
After the seven Colorado River Basin states failed to meet their deadline for a plan to share reduced water supplies, Audubon’s Colorado River Program Director, Jennifer Pitt, released the...
Avis Spiralis, or “spiral bird,” is a one-of-a-kind bird blind and observation tower at the Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary designed and constructed by Professor Pablo Moyano Fernández of...
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Seven years ago, anesthesiologist and budding photographer Carole Turek embarked on a seemingly impossible quest to photograph every hummingbird species in the world—all 366 of them. Now 75 years...
Et dof-medlem, Helle Regitze Boesen, har mødtes med Lokalkassen (Radio Haderslev) ved fugletårnet ved Hindemade, hvor de har set på fugle og fået en rigtig hyggelig...
Total Counts Run, Effort, Total Species Found, Four New Species Reported This year Montana birders completed 31 Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs), which was the same as last year and similar to the...
Low count temperatures averaged close to 29 degrees F º (minimum low of 14 F º at both Chesterville and Elkton and maximum low of 53 at South Dorchester). Middleton also had very low minimum...
Forty-two Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) were conducted this year in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, including a new CBC in Clark County, Legacy Grove. A total of 139 species was recorded, which is six...
Pennsylvania birders made their usual excellent contributions to the Christmas Bird Count’s milestone 125th season, as annually done since 1900. Eighty-one sites reported for Pennsylvania, one...
The 125th Christmas Bird Count period took place from December 14th, 2024, to January 5th, 2025. 124 counts were completed in California, with 379 native species and 17 established introduced species...
The 125th CBC in North Carolina consisted of 53 counts, with three (Alamance County, Holly Shelter and Portsmouth) not being run. Overall, the weather this season averaged...
Alabama conducted thirteen CBC’s (Auburn, Birmingham, Cullman, Dauphin Island, Eufaula, Gulf Shores, Fort Morgan, Guntersville, Montgomery, Tuscaloosa, Waterloo, Wheeler Dam, and Wheeler N.W.R....
Fifty-four Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) were conducted in Virginia for the 2024-2025 season. The total number of species tallied on the 2024-2025 counts was 212 which is just below the 2023-2024...
Oregon held 45 counts this year. The only new count was the long-awaited McNary- Hermiston count, discussed below. Among recent counts, Coos Bay, long the highest in the state with peaks...
The 2024-2025 season was the 125th year of Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count (CBC), the longest running wildlife census in the world! Below is a summary of the counts occurring in South...
This morning it was too windy to ring, but we had hoped that the migration count would still be possible. Unfortunately, it was quite rainy and starting too early to allow us to complete any of the count....
The ringing: It was windy this morning, so many nets remained closed. I managed to open 148 metres. It was very calm in the garden; there were almost no Solsort (blackbirds) and just a few Fuglekonge (goldcrests)...
The ringing: Xxxxxx Trækket på Odden: Meteorologerne snød os for det lovede solskin, og vejret forblev næsten overskyet. Måske gav det os også et andet træk, end vi ellers ville have oplevet. Heldigvis...
Morgenobs Det er simpelthen stadig vådt og mildt tåget herude. Sigtbarheden i dag lå nede på de omkring tre til fire kilometer og blen kun periodisk ringere når der kommer byger ind fra havet. Vinden...
A single Marsh Tit has now proven to be very settled in Maridalen. It hangs very closely with two Willow Tits on a couple of horse fields where they feed primarily on the floor and find food in or close to piles of manure. What they are eating though I am unsure – it could either be seeds or insects (perhaps eggs). There is only a single Marsh Tit and I have now changed my previous observation from a pair to just one as I was only focused on identify and documenting one of the birds and just assumed that the bird it was with was also a Marsh Tit but seeing how close company this bird keeps with Willow Tits that assumption was only making an ass out of you and me. I also wonder whether the initial observation of two birds can stand as two as it was initially reported as an unsure record with a photo of just a single bird. Anyways, this bird seems settled for the winter and there is clearly an abundance of natural food although once winter sets in then I expect it will move to feeders. It calls surprisingly little, or at least gives the characteristic “pitchoo” call very sparingly whereas the Willow Tits are churring away all the time. This makes initially discovering it difficult but once the Willows are found then the Marsh Tit should not be far away. Apart from this little bit of excitement Maridalen feels quite dead. There are no flocks of finches on the fields and the lake only has a handful of expected species (Goldeneye, Goosander and Cormorant). With it being so mild there are still quite a few Fieldfares finding worms to eat on grass fields but I am clutching at straws. The Maridalen Marsh Tit (løvmeis) anno 2025 finding some food in the horse muck I'm not sure if it has taken a seed or an insect egg here the Marsh Tit is feeding with a Willow Tit (granmeis) which is at the back. Note the much white and large cheek of the Willow this had the makings of a very good comparison of the 2 species but ended up being blurry. The Marsh is closest here the Marsh is at the back. Note also the large white wing panel of the Willow which is muck less obvious on the Marsh Willow the Marsh Marsh on manure Willow to the left and Marsh to the right Marsh flanked by the two Willows. In this shot the Marsh seems to have an obvious white wing panel Willow Willow Willow 2 of 5 Twite (bergirisk) that stopped briefly whilst I was watching the tits this Treecreeper (trekryper) was searching for food on spruce cones which is a behaviour I cannot remember seeing before These 5 Bullfinches were part of an all male flock of 6 birds - again something I cannot remember seeing before
The National Audubon Society announced today the official promotion of Andrea Jones as Vice President, California. A widely respected leader who has driven several major conservation wins across the...
I spent my typical 2-weeks prior to the Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) scouting every day in the Central Coast. My notes indicated weather was mostly mild leading up to the CBC season. Inland areas...
The 125th CBC was run with most counts experiencing favorable weather, although temperatures averaged 12 – 15 degrees colder than last season. Participation for many counts was again up from...
The 2024-2025 CBC included 35 Iowa counts reporting to Audubon. Weather conditions during the counting period were mild. Rain, fog and icy roads hindered counts during the first weekend. Counts...
During the 125th Christmas Bird Count (CBC) in Canada, counts reported 284 species, a decrease of nine species compared to last season. Three species (Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Steller’s...
