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Cold nights, a cold northerly wind and blue skies continue to sing a lullaby to both birders and birds and dire is a word that frequently goes through my mind but we are now getting to the time of the spring when no matter what the weather there will be new birds coming although southerly winds and rain would still be much preferred. Svellet is now getting ready to be very mighty. Water levels are perfect (3.77m today) and are rising very slowly, the light in the early morning is good (meaning there is a chance of identifying what is out there) and new waders are coming. Whilst the number of Curlew is now falling with under 50 today the number of Greenshank is rising with the first 2 on the 24th, 7 on the 26th, 14 on the 27th and 25 today, the 28th – the increase is nearly exponential! No Wood Sands yet but a single Whimbrel and two Bar-tailed Godwits including a brick red male were a sign of things to come. If things stay like this then I think the next two weeks could be cosmic! A pleasant surprise was finding Kingfisher at a breeding site. This winter has been so long and cold that I think that many birds will have perished and even though we may have far fewer pairs this year than last I think the species is now established and won’t come and go as it used to do. Svellet 28th April. Water levels are currently perfect but it won't need to rise very much before those mudflat between me and the water disappear. Bar-tailed Godwits (lappspove) are, despite what the local rarities committee thinks, a proper scarce bird around Oslo and especially in spring. Brick red males are even rarer 3 Greenshank (gluttsnipe) at Maridalsvannet today. An early record here and with water levels currently, and surprisingly given the weather, very high there is no mud so I am not expecting many more waders this spring male Kingfisher (isfugl) with fish. I saw him twice with a fish which he did not eat himself but flew with it towards the bank that is here hidden by bushes and where I assume there is a nest hole this female Sparrowhawk (spurvehauk) was in a display flight and calling today in Maridalen. She was displaying above a Goshawk teritory but it did not result in any Goshawks flying up. Note the white undertail feathers which both Sparrowhawks and Goshawks fan out when displaying my first Whimbrel (småspove) of the year. I had previously reported a bird on 14 April which is an extreme early date. Whilst I was happy with the ID it was distant and I didn't manage to get a photo. I therefore deleted this record after a couple of days as I am a firm believer in that very early (and late) records of migrants should be documented with photos or sound recordings. This applies particularly to species which can easily be confused with a commoner species and include in addition to Whimbrel species such as Tree Pipit, Wood and Common Sandpiper, Honey Buzzard, Hobby, Garden Warbler, Yellow Wagtail and Wryneck (sound records)
In January, the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey became part of a global network for tracking bird migration with the installation of a Motus station on our property. As spring migration approached...
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Ringmærkningen: Imagine it?s your last day at Gedser and you don?t know whether to help with the ringing or the counting. There is a really nice team on both sides. What should you do? It was impossible...
After some calm migration days, we finally got a good spell of easterly winds again, which made for a decent migration count at Nordstrand. Julian and I were out today and had decided to go to the White...
Ringmærkningen: Imagine it?s your last day at Gedser and you don?t know whether to help with the ringing or the counting. There is a really nice team on both sides. What should you do? It was impossible...
27. apr. 2026 kl. 00:00
Ringmærkningen: Imagine it?s your last day at Gedser and you don?t know whether to help with the ringing or the counting. There is a really nice team on both sides. What should you do? It was impossible...
Observations: Ringing: This morning started very slow. In the first round we caught two Blackbirds ?Solsort?. But it improved: Later, we got some Willow Warblers ?Løvsanger?, a Redstart ?Rødstjert?,...
Jubilæumsfuglen i maj er stenpikkeren - den kan du læse om her. Foto: Aage Matthiesen...
Alvin and Alix were up early this morning for the ringing. It was quite windy, so it meant that they had to decide which nets to open. In the end they opened 16 out of the 26 nets we have a Kabeltromlen....
Just the weather we ordered! Foto: Cyann Ménard / GFU Ringmærkningen: Today the wind had settled down again, so we could open all the nets, and form two teacher/trainee teams consisting of Søren +...
Ringmærkningen: Today the wind had settled down again, so we could open all the nets, and form two teacher/trainee teams consisting of Søren + me (Mathilde) on one side, and Theo + Olga on the other....
Observations : Weather at 5.45: NW4, 7°C, 1/8, 30km visibilityThis morning, we observed some nice migration movements from red-throated loon [rødstrubet lom] and common tern/arctic tern [fjordterne/havterne].This...
Because of the stronger northwesterly winds today, we thought about whether or not to go ringing in the morning, but then decided to try at least. It was Alix and me at Kabeltromlen, and in the beginning...
Ringmærkningen: No ringing today... :( Trækket på Odden: With the strong winds blowing in Gedser all day long, it wasn?t possible to ring. Usually, there are people to talk to at 5 am, but this morning...
Ringmærkningen: No ringing today... :( Trækket på Odden: With the strong winds blowing in Gedser all day long, it wasn?t possible to ring. Usually, there are people to talk to at 5 am, but this morning...
Observations : Weather at 6.10: NW11, 7°C, 8/8, 30km visibilityThis morning, many of us were scanning the horizon through our binoculars, Henrik, Thomas and Hanelie joined Jorn and I for observations....
24. apr. 2026 kl. 21:40
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While there are many important needs that arise when crafting a state budget, legislators and the Governor must remember the essential natural resources that allow Arizonans to thrive here in the...
