Monday, 20 July 2015

20th July


A nice day with the wind back in NW but not too strong; there wasn’t too much around though with the highlight in the nets being a juvenile Pied Flycatcher (presumably from somewhere fairly local although not in the recording area) with the only other bird of note being a juvenile Green Woodpecker which came out to the lighthouse a couple of times.

                Still quiet round the coast with 5 Teal, 6 Green Sandpipers, a Common Sandpiper, a Tufted Duck, 2 Herons and 30+ Swifts of note while the 8 big Shelduck chicks in Verevågen were taking their first unsteady flights!   There was another brood of fledgling Red-backed Shrikes out in Lebeltet Nord where the Spotted Flycatcher fledglings were still going and the Vatnemarka Red-backed Shrike pair were still present and alarming but I haven’t seen any chicks yet.

Pied Flycatcher

Spotted Flycatcher

Hooded Crow

An Eider family having an afternoon nap

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