Nice and sunny but the
blazing NW wind remained all day; chopping down trees all morning so it wasn’t
until the afternoon that I managed to get out but it was just the breeding
birds of interest with a very young brood of fledgling Red-backed Shrikes at
Bakkan, the Wryneck alarming at me, a brood of fledgling Whinchats at Vågsvollmarka
and a couple more adult Red-backed Shrikes dotted around.
The obvious days highlight came early evening when I
stepped out to find a 1st summer FRANKLIN’S GULL in the field just in front of the carpark which had
been cut earlier today, it showed brilliantly less than 20m away for a few
seconds before flying off across the fields to another cut area and disappeared;
it showed distantly again in flight before heading out over Vatnemarka and away
– awesome double American Gull finding for me this year here!
Distant record shots of the Franklin's Gull - if I'd gone for my camera straight away instead of looking at it I could of got much better pictures of it on the deck!
Brilliant Red-backed Shrike fledglings
A different male Red-backed Shrike that doesn't belong to the fledglings
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