Tjeldstø 23 August 2013 - more migration

Sunny again with light southerlies. A quick stroll around the reserve produced the first Kestrel tårnfalk and Wigeon brunnakke of the autumn...

Herdlevær 22 August 2013 - Whisky strikes again

Sunny with light northerly wind. A Green Sandpiper skogsnipe was the best sighting, otherwise just small numbers of the usual waders, some T...

Solberg and Tjeldstø 20 August 2013

Southerly winds and cloudy. Ruff brushane Virtually no resting waders at Solberg. A single Great Skua storjo , a Whinchat buskskvett and sev...

Herdlevær 19 August 2013 - Shearwaters

South westerly winds with variable cloud cover. No time to make the trip out to Skogsøy so I joined another birder for a couple of hours at ...

Rong 12 August 2013 - Sperm Whale

Another flying visit to Øygarden. Little in the way of birds - again largely due to not getting out and about. The only sighting of any note...

28-31 July 2013 - Tjeldstø - Young Cuckoo, Tringa waders and Two-barred Crossbills

A brief few days back in Øygarden with virtually no time and no car meant that all I could do was cover Tjeldstø to a small extent. Young Cu...

Early June 2013 Tjeldstø - the destruction commences

As mentioned previously on this blog there are some very negative "developments" planned for Tjeldstø . Inevitably these will have...