Tuesday 28 July 2015

28th July


Beautiful and calm again with 50 new birds in the nets including a smart juvenile Green Woodpecker, another young juvenile Pied Flycatcher, a Whinchat, a nice and scaly young Skylark and a little influx of 13 Willow Warblers; I didn’t look at the sea very much but I didn’t miss anything with c300 Greylag Geese heading south the only thing of note, there was however a nice wader passage going through Vågsvollvåien with birds dropping in and heading off all morning which included a few Wood Sandpipers, Greenshank, Redshank, Curlew, Green Sandpipers, a Ruff and the first Grey Plover of the autumn.

                The wader theme continued as I walked round the coast as totals included 25 Common Sandpipers, the first Curlew Sandpiper of the autumn, another Grey Plover, 2 Knot, 2 Bar-tailed Godwits, 12 Golden Plover, 6 Greenshank, 7 Green Sandpipers, 2 Ruff and a Wood Sandpiper along with 15 Teal and the adult male Peregrine.

                Inland was a bit quieter with a good spread of Red-backed Shrikes including two males together at the Radiomastene (not sure which pairs they belonged to!), 2 Spotted Flycatchers, 2 juvenile Fieldfares and a nice group of 4 very young fledgling Coal Tits at Vatnemarka.
 

Green Woodpecker


Skylark


Ruff

Curlew Sandpiper
 

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