24th September

We caught another couple of Tengmalm’s Owls overnight before another promising looking day dawned with a moderate easterly, plenty of cloud and a few isolated showers here and there but as is the norm this year the nets were ridiculously quiet – five hours netting in late September with an easterly wind blowing and you catch just one Dunnock all morning, what the hell is going on this autumn!?

                A juvenile Hobby showed well perched on a rock by the lighthouse and two Goshawks went south almost together while on the sea birds included 6 Red-throated Divers, 52 Dunlin, a Ruff, a Common Tern, 26 Wigeon, a Black Guillemot and 35 Gannets went south with the first Greenshank for a while passed overhead.

                The rest of the day was interrupted by a several heavy showers with the highlight being an Osprey which flew north over Seviksmarka, three Peregrines, the Shoveler and 33 Wigeon were the only other birds of note really.

 

- Most of the local Lesser Black-backed Gulls have left for their winter quarters now so many of the ones around at the moment are migrants from further north including J6R8 on Vågsvollvåien this evening who was ringed as a chick up near Troms in northern Norway in 2007, 1,500Km to the north of here.

Hobby

Peregrine

Common Scoter