Monday 27 July 2015

27th July


Another perfect day, pretty much flat calm with some cloud cover coming and going; managed 45 new birds in the nets, all local breeding birds but they did include the first Chiffchaff, Reed Bunting and Rock Pipit caught this autumn.   Needless to say the sea was quiet with 2 Red-throated Divers and a few small Greylag Goose flocks south the only birds of note, there was though a few birds passing through Vågsvollvåien during the morning including 5+ Greenshank, a Wood Sandpiper, 3 Teal, a Ruff, 12 Lapwings and 5+ Herons.

                The coast was pretty quiet with a Little Stint and 9 Teal in Sevika, 8 Green Sandpipers in Verevågen, a Wood Sandpiper on the pool at Vatnemarka and a Green Woodpecker in Lebeltet Nord.   A Bar-tailed Godwit was new on Vågsvollvåien late afternoon when an odd little party of 3 Green Woodpeckers came out to the lighthouse for a look around!  

Willow Tit and fledgling

Cormorant

Six-spot Burnet

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