A similar day to yesterday
but with the wind a bit stronger and with a bit more west in it; a couple of
Bonxies were lingering offshore while around Vågsvollvåien there were 2
Bar-tailed Godwits, 8 Curlew, 2 Whimbrel, a Greenshank and presumably the same
female Tufted Duck relocating from Fuglejønna.
Managed to get a couple of nets open but it was very quiet, just rescued
by a smart juvenile Wryneck as I was closing!
The coast was also quiet with waders including 3
Common Sandpipers, another Greenshank, 4 Green Sandpipers, 5 Dunlin and a
Sanderling; 38+ Swifts were feeding over Verevågen before the day’s highlight
came with a cracking female WHITE-BACKED
WOODPECKER in Lebeltet Nord (a proper one this time with no hint of any
hybridness like the thing last autumn!).
- Read consecutive Lesser Black-backed Gull rings on
Vågsvollvåien this morning; J663E and J664E were both ringed as chicks on Rauna
on 17th July 2013and over two years later they were standing next to
each other again!
White-backed Woodpecker
Wryneck - very hard to photograph in the hand as it wouldn't keep its bloody head still!
The Swifts were very photogenic today!
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