as from now on I´ll be blogging in English, since I have so many friends in the UK and elsewhere, that do not understand Norwegian.
Ok, back to the point, we´ve just returned from a lovely trip to the UK, where we went to Arundel, a lovely wetland reserve not far from Brighton. Here you can meet foreign birds, migrating birds and local ones. It is a paradise to bird watchers like us, just have a look:
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We bought seeds to feed the ducks in the areas where this was permitted |
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And the ducks were so cute and trustful... |
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but not all were cute..this is a young moorehen (sivhøne), in his "teens" |
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one of the foregin ducks |
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White-headed duck (hvithodeand) |
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another duck..dont know the name |
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a blue duck from New Zealand, the only one to find anywhere else but there. |
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Nuthatch (spettmeis) |
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the most cute duckling, I thought the little yellow ones only existed in bath... |
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Long-tailed duck (Havelle) |
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Harlequin duck (Harlekinand) |
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Red-breasted Merganser (siland) |
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Little Grebe (Dvergdykker) the only solar-panel driven duck :o) |
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Mallard ducklings (stokkand unger) |
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a reed warbler (busksanger) |
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a little grebe, who had been thrown out of the nest the very same day.. |
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A water vole passed by just by the boat we were in |
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We loved this sign... |
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a threatened species, the red breasted goose (rødnakkegås) |
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Scoter (svartand) |
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Do you think i look crazy? Well, if you had a bad hairday combined with hunger, you´d look like this too! |
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A lovely pheasant (fasan) adjusting its feathers in the daisy meadows. |
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Freeze! Who me? This is a little pheasant chick. |
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Rogalands county bird, the lapwing (vipe), represented here by a little young one |
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a family of Canada Geese (kanadagås) |
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a little shellduckling (gravandunge) |
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and here´s the proud mum, mrs Shell-duck (gravand) |
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Try copy this! This is a very acrobatic tern (makrellterne) |
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A little mouse, it did not do so well, so expect it has been food for a bigger bird by now.. |
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A goldfinch! (Stillits) First time in my life i have seen one.. |
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But this one I do know, the chaffinch (bokfink) |
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A lovely mandarine duck (mandarinand), female that is. |
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A very hungry mrs Pheasant tries to make the food fall out of the feeder |
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a vain black neck swan |
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unknown chicks eating out of Rob´s hands...should I be jealous? |
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another lovely swan |
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a Jack daw (kaie)
Lovely birds, and a fantastic visit to Arundel. Do you want to know more about the place, please have a look at their webside |
http://www.wwt.org.uk/visit-us/arundel
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