11th November

A pleasant enough day, brightish with a lightish NW breeze; I went out into the area in the morning where it was pretty quiet but with a trickle of birds heading over to the NW including a total of 68 Waxwings in several flocks, a flock of 6 Lapland Buntings, 2 Grey Wagtails, 60+ Bramblings and small numbers of Starlings, Redpolls and Chaffinches.   Other birds included the young White-tailed Eagle, 3 Peregrines including two females tag-teaming against a flock of Starlings but still failing to catch anything, 21 Crossbills, a calling Black Woodpecker, 4 normal sounding Bullfinches and a Chiffchaff.

                I then went out and about for the rest of the day where the highlights included 6 Smew, 22 Pochard and a fly through Little Auk on Hanangervann and a Slavonian Grebe, another drake Pochard and a single adult Crane on Kviljobukta; there were then some good totals offshore from Kviljoodden with single White-billed Diver and Black-throated Diver with 20 Great-northern Divers and 3 Slavonian Grebes in amongst good numbers of Velvet Scoter, Common Scoter, Goldeneye and Long-tailed Ducks.

                Finally there were 5 Slavonian Grebes and a Great-northern Diver in Nordhasselvika and the three Little Grebes in the harbour along with another Slavonian Grebe.

 

Male and female Long-tailed Ducks