The weather went back to
its default setting of very strong northwest winds first thing changing to
extremely strong northwest winds by the afternoon; not much on the sea first
thing with at least two Bonxies again lingering offshore chasing things along
with single Fulmar, Kittiwake and Common Tern.
27+ Lapwings plus two each of Bar-tailed Godwit and Whimbrel were around
Vågsvollvåien and that was about it for the day really as I couldn’t really
inspire myself enough to do much else!
I read a foreign Lesser Black-backed Gull ring
yesterday evening on Vågsvollvåien; dark blue with orange numbers 850 was
ringed at Gloucester Landfill site in December 1994 already aged as a 9
(meaning it was hatched in 1991) making it at least 24 years old! It was seen regularly wintering at landfill
sites in SW England up until 2012 but not since and just re-sighted once away
from its wintering area – at Tingsaker, Lillesand north of Kristiansand in June
2006.
A bit of a boring day really (although I didn't put very much effort in!) so here's a Smyrna Kingfisher from Israel last year which is enough to brighten anybody's day!
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