Thick fog at dawn delayed
things a bit but as it slowly cleared through the morning a few Blackbirds,
Song Thrushes, Redwings and Fieldfares started to appear….but that was about it
and expectations didn’t last very long!
As soon as it began to clear Gulls began to move NW with 600+ Common
Gulls, 30 Black-headed Gulls and 150+ Lesser Black-backed Gulls went through
while 150 Oystercatchers also went up the coast and 4 Great-northern Divers
were on the sea.
The most interesting things however were on Vågsvollvåien
where there was a hybrid drake Common Teal x Green-winged Teal with both
horizontal and vertical white lines and a darvic ringed Lesser Black-backed
Gull stopped off briefly was traced to a scheme ringing wintering Gulls in
Tarragona Harbour in Catalonia near the Ebro Delta (hopefully more life history
details will come soon).
It was pretty windy by the afternoon so the area was
pretty quiet with 38 Teal and 13 Wigeon in Sevika an increase, a flock of 23
Curlews in Verevågen and a young male Merlin zooming around.
Common Gull
Red-breasted Merganser
Goldeneye thinking about starting to display
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