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The conditions today were perfect for searching ice free streams for goodies and I turned up a Jack Snipe which I managed to ...
The first 4 days of 2026 have been uneventful on the bird front. We were away in Blighty for New Year and returned to snow and temperatures approaching -10C but despite this, or perhaps because of this, there is precious little to see.
Maridalsvannet remains stubbornly ice free except for the bay at Nes with strong winds preventing the ice from spreading.
July
Butterflies were a big part of this year’s (and the first for a couple of years) to the cabin in Bodø which was because I like butterflies and they are good up there but also because the fjord at Fauske was very quiet with much smaller concentrations of moulting seaduck worryingly suggesting a lack of food for them. It was so bad that I di...
Despite me posting a part 1 of my summary of the year it isn’t over quite yet and I have managed to fit in some birding around festive and family activities. On the 22nd I guided Emily and Diane from California for a very cold and crisp couple of hours at Huk, Bygdøy. We had a good ha...
2025 hasn’t felt like a particularly exciting year and I can easily list off the fairly common species I haven’t seen such as Fulmar (how is that even possible?!?), Yellow-browed or Grasshopper Warbler, any white winged gulls, Great Northern or White-billed Divers. However, I have clearly had a fairly good year because my total of 245 species in Norway is slightly better than...
