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Simon Rix retweeted
One of the main targets for me in a Norway was to see Black Woodpecker after failing to see them on other European birding trips!
Safe to say I was happy with the views!! What an experience!
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Change of duty on the Oslo Honey Buzzard nest today. The male was sitting when I arrived & after an hour he looked up before standing up & flying off the nest. 6 minutes later the female flew in & took over incubating. No calls were heard & I don’t know if they interacted at all.
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Egg laying in Norwegian Honey Buzzard nests doesn’t normally happen until mid June with young then not flying before very end Aug/Sept. The Oslo pair I am following this year laid already 29 May which is extremely early. Both the male (first in video) and female are incubating.
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Simon Rix retweeted
May 27
Unreal experience, spending some time with this female Ural owl in the forests of Norway 🇳🇴 after a failed attempt to see them in Estonia I was absolutely over the moon to finally see this stunning species 🦉
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Simon Rix retweeted
May 25
Back in the Uk after a fantastic long weekend in Norway 🇳🇴 being guided by @si_rix
Trip of a lifetime with amazing views of every target species, Great Grey, Tengmalm’s, Ural Owls and Black Woodpecker, had a quick look in the airport at my videos so here is a preview 🤔
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Norwegian birders have a tradition of eating a Gullbrød to celebrate a lifer (made of marsipan it means «golden bread»). It’s not to my taste but traditions have to be upheld and @MarcusW992 & dad Graham had many excuses to eat one this owly weekend near Oslo. GG, Ural & Teng 🦉
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Female Ural & Great Grey Owls alarm calling.
Wednesday saw my first check of the year for breeding owls north of Oslo. There is uncertainty as to whether it’s a good year & there are definitely local variations but I found single GG and Ural at nest sites which is a good start.
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It might be a grainy picture but geese nerds will like it: 5 Taiga Beans from the Scottish wintering population at their regular staging site near Oslo but also, and this is where it gets fun, a Tundra Bean on the right and a single Pink-foot.
More here:
oslobirder.blogspot.com/
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It seems the internet loves a bouncing bird so here is another Jack Snipe taken yesterday in Oslo.
After 7 very cold weeks the forecast says we will soon have temperatures above zero and rain so it looks like this bird has done well and survived a Norwegian winter.
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Three-toed Woodpeckers often show REALLY well once you have first found them. Problem is that when they aren’t drumming (which they’ve yet to start with) then they can also be really difficult to find.
I saw this bird today three hours after it was first found on exactly the same
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Oslo is experiencing it's coldest period for decades with temperatures above zero on only 4 days since 1 Jan. It is therefore surprising that Jack Snipe are still going strong with up to 4 in the area I watch and they are roosting in the day so clearly find enough food at night.
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Sadly it doesn’t look like the forecast top year for rodents and therefore owls is occuring and a nocturnal trip yesterday gave just 1 singing Tengmalm’s on a route which produced 11 a year ago.
This Pygmy 🦉 on the patch today was quite literally only a small compensation.
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A long weekend in Tromsø featured Northern Lights, lots of snow, reindeer racing and birds. Only 25 species of which a Redwing was probably the rarest (for the time of the year) but for me King Eiders and an adult Iceland Gull were the highlights and both feature in this video
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I do, sometimes, look at birds other than Jack Snipe or owls 😉.
The sight of these Hazel Grouse (male first & then female) kept me going on an otherwise freezing and pretty much birdless walk in Oslo’s forests. It is fascinating to watch such large birds on such thin branches.
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