A bit rainy and breezy
(although the wind had moved round into the east) for most of the morning which
passed largely uneventful, it brightened up around lunchtime and there were
much increased wader numbers around the coast most notably 16 Common Sandpipers
along with 5 Greenshank, 19 Redshank, 13 Dunlin, 7 Green Sandpipers and 10
Ringed Plover.
Other birds seen around the place included 6 Teal,
the male Peregrine, the three pairs of Red-backed Shrikes still very active,
broods of Willow Tit and Coal Tit fledglings being fed by the parents, a
juvenile Pied Flycatcher in Lebeltet Nord, 25+ Swifts and 11 Crossbills.
- I read a pretty old Lesser Black-backed Gull ring
today on Vågsvollvåien which had an excellent set of re-sightings; JNC9 was
ringed as a chick just up the coast on Rauna in 1999, from where it spent the
next summer in Germany before coming back up here briefly in summer 2001before
heading back to Germany and Belgium presumably on route to its wintering
area. It returned here in 2002 and 2003
before going missing for three years, turning up back on Rauna in 2006 and then
being seen in France on route back to its wintering area which is probably La
Coruǹa in Spain as it was re-sighted there in March 2007 (although this could
have also been on passage).
It has then returned every year to breed
back on Rauna but hasn’t been seen anywhere on passage or during winter.
Common Sandpiper
Young Linnet
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