Øygarden 19 November 2013 - winter arrives

Strong north westerly winds and heavy hail / snow at times. The weather started off nice enough but as soon as I got out it deteriorated to ...

Hjelme Vest 18 November 2013 - A decent haul

Fresh southerly winds, showers later. Conditions were far from ideal for picking things up on the sea but small numbers of most of the usual...

Herdlevær and Tjeldstø 16 November 2013 - Late autumn pipit headache

Strong westerly winds and very dull Much better conditions than yesterday but virtually dark...... At Herdlevær I stumbled over a pipit that...

Tjeldstø 15 November - Never give up

Gale force south westerly winds and torrential rain. Foul weather and other commitments kept me in most of the day, but undeterred by the fl...

Herdlevær 13 November 2013 - Eastern Jackdaw?

Fairly strong NW winds, showers Another half-hearted attempt to see if there was any movement over the sea. There wasn't - just small nu...

Skogsøy 12 November 2013 - Still too much wind?

Strong (20 knot++) SW winds. The seawatchers Pavlovian response to yesterday's storm was of course to see what was going on at Skogsøy.....

Øygarden 11 November 2013 - Storm

Strong southerly winds increasing to storm force and rain later.   Record shots of a couple of the Two-barred Crossbills båndkorsnebb Not mu...

Øygarden 10 November 2013 - Just Two-barred Crossbills today.....

Sunny with northerly winds. Given the weather conditions it was no surprise that the twitchers making the trip out dipped on the thrush toda...

Tjeldstø 09 November 2013 - ØYGARDEN RULES!!

Light SE, largely clear skies.    The first Black-throated Thrush svartstrupetrost for Hordaland After quickly checking a couple of locali...

Herdlevær 08 November 2013 - Late migrants

Strong SW winds, heavy showers at times. A Yellowhammer gulspurv was a new species for the rapidly growing house list as I left for a quick...