Skogsøy 31 January 2015 - "Migration"

Calm, more or less sunny with light easterly winds. Things looked good before I even left the house with a flock of eight Waxwing sidesvans ...

Herdlevær 30 January - Back in business

Foul weather with strong southerly winds, rain and sleet. A female Red-breasted Merganser siland - catching plenty of fish Made the most of ...

Tjeldstø - Nordøy 18 January 2015 - Too close to home!

Cracking weather made it all the more frustrating to be so near yet so far from home. Sture terminal (or at least part of it!) by night At w...

Oslo 11 January 2015 - Still not birding Øygarden

Depressingly quiet in Oslo so I added a new webpage - (Not) Birding Laos Birding Laos

Oslo 08 January 2015 - Not Birding Øygarden

Calm and sunny. Took a stroll around the Botanic Gardens and saw a new for the year for me - other birders and lots of them! However, it was...

Tjeldstø etc 07 January 2015 - Nice weather = plenty of birds

Stiff southerly breeze but more or less clear. It always amazes me how much stuff turns up after a spell of bad weather.... A Common Scoter ...

Northern Øygarden 06 January 2015 - A couple of bonus birds

Strong southerly winds, rain and dull. Not the best of weather to put it mildly. Started off at Hjelmo where a surprise species was an unsea...

Skogsøy+ 05 January 2015 - Regulars still playing hard to get

Not quite what was forecast - southerly winds, steady light rain and dull. Skogsøy failed to produce the goods today (quite a rare event) wi...

Herdlevær 04 January 2015

Light NW and for the most part sunny. The first trip of the year to Herdlevær was reasonably productive in some ways but proved that some of...

Dåvøy and Tjeldstø 03 January 2015 - Filling in the gaps

Brisk north-westerly winds, occasional showers. Above and below: Herring Gull with yellow legs ( omissus ) Redwing rødvingetrost Starling st...

Øygarden 02 Janaury 2015 - New Year's Bird Race Day 3

Very strong westerly winds, occasional short but heavy showers. The day started very nicely indeed with a new species for the house list in ...

Øygarden 01 January 2015 - New Year's Bird Race day 2

South westerly winds and overcast but no rain until after dark. Not a bad day at all considering the effort put in - a walk around Tjeldstø ...