Monday 30 March 2015

30th March


Nice and sunny but with an increasingly brisk and cold NW wind produced a trickle of northbound Gulls but not much else offshore; the first Wheatear of the year appeared in front of the bunker in the morning, the drake Garganey was again on Vågsvollvåien and the Black Redstart was still around.   The regular young female Peregrine again came in off the sea carrying prey (probably a Snipe) and a few hours later had a swipe at a Black Guillemot forcing it to crash dive into the sea – obviously a repeated technique by this individual and the three or four piles of Woodcock feathers out on the point over the last couple of weeks can be attributed to this bird!
                Not much else was seen through the day in the now strong and still cold NW wind although a flock of 25 Curlews dropped in to Vågsvollvåien late afternoon where there was also 60+ Common Gulls.
 
Red-breasted Merganser having a wash

Eider

Long-tailed Duck

Velvet Scoter

Rock Pipit

Lapwing
 

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