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We have had another long weekend and with good weather forecast on Saturday I decided to head to the mountains on Friday evening. Normally I would have had a boyz weekend in the mountains around this time but circumstances have conspired to mean that wouldn’t happen this year so I rather spur of the moment packed a sleeping bag in the car and headed off on my own. In the end I was out for 27 hours and had 2 hours of sleep, 30 minutes of which was a rather necessary power nap on the way home… I surprised myself with how much energy I had although on the way home I was counting down the kilometres. After 3 and a half hours driving I started the birding at my Great Snipe lek. After a blank last year I was hoping that was just a bit of bad luck but there were no birds again this year and I now reckon the lek has been abandoned. Why is more difficult to answer. It is close to a path and a ski lift but has always been so and I cannot see any changes in the immediate area that would affect the birds. The Beitostølen area has seen lots and lots of building of cabins but the lek is above the cabins, perhaps though the nesting females have always used areas that are now being developed and the general area is no longer attractive for them. Alternatively the species itself is suffering a significant decline due to factors in winter and passage areas and this has causes some leks to disappear as the birds concentrate in core areas. These are my maximum counts at the lek since I discovered it in 2012 and the downward trend is obvious: the (former) lek site There were very few birds around the lek otherwise and the vegetation was still very brown. There was little snow and only lakes above 1300m had ice but I think this is from a warm period 2-3 weeks ago but since then it has been cold and windy so vegetation has not yet started developing. I drove a long stretch of road during the night with frequent stops hoping to find Great Snipe other places but did not succeed. There was a lot of other life though. Between midnight and 1am I was surprised by how much activity there was from other waders and grouse and also a Short-eared Owl that perched in my headlights. I had my hour and half sleep in the car and awoke at 3:30am to lots of noise. All manner of birds were singing and displaying and over the next 6 hours I feasted my eyes on Dotterels, Temminck’s Stints, Shore Larks, Lapland and Snow Buntings, Bluethroats, Long-tailed Ducks, Scaup, Common and Velvet Scoters and more. It is clearly not a rodent year in this area and aswell as no Long-tailed Skuas I just had a single Rough-legged Buzzard, another Short-eared Owl, 2 Kestrels, a Golden Eagle and a White-tailed Eagle. After this as the sun warmed things up I concentrated on butterflies and I took a slight detour to visit a site of the rare Large Grizzled Skipped (alvesmyger). I did at the time think I had found them but my pictures show I saw, or at least the ones I managed to photograph, were ordinary Grizzled Skippers which I didn’t realise occurred there. Their large cousins do fly later and the end of June is the time most people see them so I will have to try again later… I did have another good species but none were new for me so I am a bit disappointed but will I hope have a butterfly post soon. Dotterel (boltit) it was only displaying females that I saw but they were very active Golden Eagle (kongeørn) and a mountain I heard quite a few (although not lots of) Bluethroats (blåstrupe) but saw none at close range I only had Lapland Buntings (lappspurv) at one site but 5! males were singing and song flighting within 100m of each other a Ptarmigan (fjellrype) at 11pm male Shore Lark (fjellerke) and his mate one of the two Short-eared Owls (jordugle) I saw Snow Buntings (snøspurv) were unusually numerous this year male female 03:39 at my hotel my now favoured raptor watch point was a bit disappointing this year with just 4 birds of 4 species: Golden Eagle, White-tailed Eagle, Rough-legged Buzzard and Kestrel
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The ringing It was very windy this morning and wind gusts were even heavier. So, we left the nets closed and waited until later in the morning, at 09:15 we opened some nets in the station garden. We ringed...
Today had high winds so with ringing cancelled we all went to world?s end 3 for the observations to get a better look at the seabirds up close. As is typical on a windy day there were many Northern Fulmars...
Vinden lå på 10 m/s da nettene skulle op og vindstødene var værre, så de 2 hejsenet kom ikke op. Men på trods af den hård vest-nodvestvind var der faktisk pænt i nettene i forhold til de mange...
After a long and exhausting migratory journey from South America, a female Least Tern arrives in the Florida Panhandle just in time for breeding season. With increasing habitat loss and human...
Af Søren Gjaldbæk Vi har på dette sted tidligere skrevet om Sorthovedet Måge og dens forekomst i grusgravsøen ved Birkum. Det kan man læse om her. I år ankom...
The ringing:I dag ringmærkede Hanelie, Anne og jeg sammen. Vi håbede vi ville have nok fugle til at vi alle kunne få mulighed for at ringmærke nogle nye - det lykkedes heldigvis:) Vi blev desuden...
Hejsa folkens, her kommer den dejlige melding fra Skagen Fuglestation. I dag startede jeg dagen ud med CES ringmærkning ved Skarvsøen sammen med Lucas, mens Cora, Andrew, Simon og Lisa stod for ringmærkningen...
Dagen blev lige til kanten da et stort regnvejr var på vej op sydfra, så standard blev kun lige præcis overholdt, og da nettene var lukket var jeg gennemblødt. Men dagens fangst var ikke skidt som...
Af Søren Gjaldbæk Den første gang, det blev bemærket, at der var et par af Vandrefalk, som holdt til ved Fynsværket var i 2016, da Torben Hvass, der på det...
This year marks a decade of BirdReturns—a groundbreaking program that brings together private wetlands managers, farmers, scientists, and conservationists to create vital habitat for migratory...
This year marks a decade of BirdReturns—a groundbreaking program that brings together private wetlands managers, farmers, scientists, and conservationists to create vital habitat for migratory...
Morgenen startede som sædvanligt ude på Grenen, hvor jeg i dag havde selskab af Tue, Cora, Andrew og min far. Jeppe, Naja og Aksel hjalp også til med dagens tællinger. Der skete ikke specielt meget...
Morning observations: We usually see that the days after strong winds also provide good birds, and after yesterday?s windy conditions, today was no exception. The observations started 5.00 and at first...
The ringing: Anne predicted correctly yesterday that we would get 10 new birds (and nine recaptures). One of them was a nice Spotted Flycatcher ?Grå Fluesnapper?. Spotted Flycatcher ?Grå Fluesnapper?....
Det blev en meget stille dag og efter 2 timer havde vi kun fanget en fugl som allerede var ringmærket så jeg sendte Rowan tilbage op og sove da hun var lidt træt. Der kom dog en fugl mere som allerede...
6. jun. 2025 kl. 23:00
Last weekend I enjoyed a late afternoon of surfing on the Alabama coast in some mellow, early summer waves (yes, there are actually surfable waves—and amazing beaches—in Alabama). As I sat on my...
6. jun. 2025 kl. 21:28
Birding with my six-year-old son along the mudflats of Bodega Bay Harbor, we paused to watch a flock of Western Sandpipers probing the shoreline. We were lucky—these were likely some of the last...
6. jun. 2025 kl. 20:50
Summer camp at the Bent of the River Audubon Center is just around the corner. We're excited to introduce a new crew of counselors with impressive skill sets in education, ecology, conservation, and...
6. jun. 2025 kl. 20:50
(Salton Sea, CA-June 5, 2025) A new science brief published today by Audubon California shows that a number of factors have surprisingly resulted in an increase in wetland habitat, and that an...
Maridalsvannet is not a classic locality for terns. The water is very deep and there is little vegetation along the sides or shallow bays. When water levels are low though and there are hatches of insects then it can attract a few terns to feed. These are normally Common Terns that are presumably visiting from their nesting colonies on the fjord although the length of time that birds visit suggests they are perhaps non breeders as it is quite the journey back to the fjord if you have a nest there. Arctic Terns have proven to be more regular than previously realised or else they have become more regular and are now an expected annual guest with the timing making it sometimes difficult to know whether they are late spring migrants or early autumn migrants. Two records of Black Tern and of course the Gull-billed Tern on 10 June 2023 show that there is always potential for something rarer and more exciting. This week has seen a hatch of insects and there have been lots of Common and Black-headed Gulls hawking insects and with them upto 8!! Arctic Terns and 4 Common Terns. We have had quite a few rain showers and one of these at least caused an arrival of Arctics (they increased from 5 to 8). With records of a Gull-billed and a number of Sandwich Terns to the south and a White-winged Black to the north I have of course been hoping to find something rarer myself and have also expected Little Gulls to turn up. They haven’t unfortunately but it has been fun observing all the different birds and it is always a challenge identifying Common and Arctic Tern. Anyone who says it is easy is either really good or lying. One of the Arctic’s has been present every day and is readily identifiable due to is missing one of its outer tail feathers and also showing signs of immaturity that have led me to age it is a 2nd summer / 3rd cy. the 3cy Arctic Tern (rødnebbtern). All black bill, incomplete black hood and dark feathering on front of wing are all signs of immaturity here you can also see it is missing (or maybe it hasn't grown out yet) its left outer tail feather an adult Arctic adult Arctic and here an adult Common (makrellterne) and adult Arctic with a Black-headed Gull (hettemåke). In this grainy picture you can still see that the black line on the undersde of the primaries is narrower and more defined on the Arctic which is also a slight smaller bird adult Common Tern here with the black tip to the bill also visible all the terns were nearly always in flight but here the 3cy Arctic perched on a rock same bird same bird adult Arctic Adult Arctic in fron of a ski jump - one of my signature shots ;-) adult Arctic swooping for food it is difficult to see what it caught - either a small fish or a large insect the 3cy Arctic adult Arctic adult Common Adult Common adult Common adult Common adult Common here catching a small fish
6. jun. 2025 kl. 06:06
When I picture biologist Ian Souza-Cole on a typical spring workday, I imagine a vibrant green sea of triticale and hear a sound that could’ve been dreamt up by the lead singer of an avant-garde...
6. jun. 2025 kl. 06:06
When I picture biologist Ian Souza-Cole on a typical spring workday, I imagine a vibrant green sea of triticale and hear a sound that could’ve been dreamt up by the lead singer of an avant-garde...
6. jun. 2025 kl. 06:06
When I picture biologist Ian Souza-Cole on a typical spring workday, I imagine a vibrant green sea of triticale fields and hear a sound that could’ve been dreamt up by the lead singer of an...
