Tuesday 12 May 2015

12th May


An overcast but pleasant day but it was fairly quiet with the nets again disappointingly quiet with just a little influx of new Blackcaps of note while on the sea 5 Arctic Skuas flew north along with a Kittiwake and an Arctic Tern with the Tystie was still offshore; the adult White-tailed Eagle flew north over the lighthouse first thing.

                The coast was also pretty quiet with the drake Pintail in Sevika and 6 Whimbrel, a pair of Garganey and a Swift in Verevågen before a look through Lebeltet produced my first Spotted Flycatcher of the year, 4 Pied Flycatchers, 5 Tree Pipits and 4 Lesser Whitethroats.   There were still 25 Dotterel on the field at Vågsvoll (still a flock to be reckoned with!) while there were 3 more Garganey, the drake Gadwall, 2 Wood Sandpipers and a Grey-headed Wagtail on Vågsvollvåien and a Grey Plover and 13 Dunlin in Vågsvollvika. 

                Some other random bits included 3 Carrion Crows and a Rook out in the fields, 4 Twite at the lighthouse and good numbers of hirundines around with 19 House Martins being the best count so far this year.

- Read a few Gull rings on Vågsvollvåien in the afternoon including a couple of 4th year Great Black-backed Gulls returning to their natal area for the first time since being ringed as chicks; one has been seen regularly across the water in Denmark for the last couple of years and the other has been seen a few times down in France and Belgium again over the last few years.
 
Dotterel trying to hide

Grey Plover

Swift

Tufted Duck
 

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