Øygarden 25 October 2012 - Winter

Gale force northerly winds, hail, snow and sleet showers. Overnight it turned to winter! Gone were all the large numbers of thrushes and oth...

Skogsøy 24 October 2012 - Another twitch

Overcast with northerly winds. Late and lazy start today and a relatively short seawatch. Lots of thrushes on the ground on the way out incl...

Herdlevær 23 October 2012 - Hawfinch

Calm with scattered cloud cover. Very pleasant conditions again and yet again plenty of birds about. Highlight today was a Hawfinch kjernebi...

Øygarden 22 October 2012 - Rosefinch on the garden list!

Southerly winds, cloudy at times. A quick check at Solberg produced some flyover Waxwings sidensvans and a male Blackcap munk as the best ...

Tjeldstø 21 October 2012 - Yellow-browed at last!

Calm and dull early on, brightening up later. Took things very easy today with a late and lazy stroll around the reserve. This proved most p...

Breivik 20 October 2012

Calm and overcast with light drizzle. Just a short trip out today - perversely because of the birds as I had to make the trip to town in ord...

Skogsøy 19 October 2012

Overcast with showers early on. Squally westerlies early but calming later. Migrating Long-tailed Ducks havelle Nothing special during a 2.5...

Herdlevær 18 October 2012

Relatively calm and overcast. Little on the move today and generally much quieter on the ground. Small numbers of Common Scoter svartand he...

Hernar 17 October 2012 - no rarities?

Calm and sunny. A decent enough morning on Hernar produced the usual selection of late autumn stuff including a Water Rail vannrikse , a Wax...

Herdlevær 16 October 2012 - Stonechat mayhem

Another day of light easterly wind and sunshine. Today there was plenty of action to go with the superb conditions - even more so than yeste...

Herdlevær 15 October 2012 - The first to Dip? / Sibe Stonechat

Stronger Easterly winds with high cloud cover. Started the day at Herdlevær where pretty much the first bird I found was an apparent Siberia...