Øygarden 30 May 2012 - cute theme

Sunny with northerlies  Lapwing vipe chick near Kollsnes  Above and below: female Teal krikkand with 13(!) young Started the day with an ab...

Øygarden 29 May 2012 - Eagle Owl

Sunny with northerly winds again. Yet again only a very short time spent at a few localities. Eagle Owl hubro Solberg was better for mammals...

Øygarden 26 May 2012

Glorious weather but no time to get out and about birding. Common Tern makrellterne at Tjeldstø Despite not birding I caught up with many of...

Herdlevær 07 May 2012 - Seawatching still rules...

Light southerly winds and sunny. Yet another short trip out, grabbed an hour's seawatching which once again proved quite productive: All...

Tjeldstø 06 May 2012

North westerly winds, mostly sunny but some wintery showers. Not really out today but picked up a Greenshank gluttsnipe beside Husvatnet and...

Herdlevær 05 May 2012 - More short seawatches

Strong northelies yet again after gales in the night. Regular heavy snow / hail showers A forty minute seawatch between 1020 and 1110 hit a ...

Herdlevær 04 May 2012 - Short seawatch

Fresh northerly winds continue. Managed to grab an hours seawatch at Herdlevær which produced two White-billed Diver gulnebblom , 19 Red-thr...

Øygarden 03 May 2012 - Golden Eagle

Northerly winds continue. Obviously some movement stilll going on. A very quick look at Solberg proved that the day should have been spent a...

Øygarden 02 May 2012 - Missing stuff....

Fresh northerly winds but sunny. The last few days have been good with more diver migrations past Skogsøy, another Crane trane , Golden Eagl...