Grey, windy and rainy on
my last morning, a little look over Vågsvollvåien produced 2 distant Rough-legged Buzzards over the town and
an increase to 293 Mallards on the floods before I spent a few hours at
Spangereid trying unsuccessfully to relocate a Blyth’s Pipit from two days ago
– it was found again but not until I was in Kristiansand waiting for the ferry
across to Denmark (a Dusky Warbler was also found there at the same time but I
won’t mention anything else about missing them!).
The 18th was spent driving south,
eventually reaching The Netherlands in the afternoon; a day’s birding on the 19th
in some woods and along the coast at Oostvaardersdijk (just east of Amsterdam)
was hard work in the very windy, showery, grey conditions but highlights
included a couple of Great White Egrets
and good but brief views of a calling Short-toed
Treecreeper along with huge numbers of ducks including a few Smew,
Goosander and Pintail in amongst hundreds of Tufted Duck, Pochard, Gadwall and
Shoveler, a Slavonian Grebe with good numbers of Great-crested Grebes and an
adult female Marsh Harrier out over the sea.
Great White Egret
Short-toed Treecreeper
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