Very sunny and very windy
throughout with all the morning’s action being on the sea with the exception of
the first Common Rosefinch of the
year singing in the Gallery Garden; birds offshore included good but distant
views of a Long-tailed Skua drifting
SE (a Norwegian tick!), the first Curlew
Sandpiper of the year south, the first 33 Brent Geese of the predictable
late May passage, 2 Barnacle Geese, single Black-throated and Great-northern
Divers, 146 Red-throated Divers and 95 Gannets.
10 Dotterel were
still present with 8 on Vågsvoll and 2 in front of Vågsvollvåien while there
were 33 Dunlin and 10 Ringed Plover in Vågsvollvika before a little walk along
the sheltered side of Lebeltet only produced 2 Wrynecks, the male Red-backed
Shrike (the last time I’m going out these in orange as I’m seeing them every day
now!) and a Spotted Flycatcher.
A little jaunt in the evening after I had tried
unsuccessfully to spring trap the Dotterel (one of them set a trap off without
getting caught!) allowed me to hear a Corncrake
singing by the roadside near Huseby between Vanse and Farsund; it sang for about
30 seconds every 10 minutes but there was no way I was ever going to get a
glimpse without doing some unethical!
More Dotterel pictures!
Eider
Rock Pipit busy collecting food
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