26-18.may 2012

It has been a lovely long weekend, hot weather and relax, but of course i had to go out with my camera. I must say that the heat became a problem around noon, so the pictures are taken before noon, or late afternoon, to manage to get them sharp.
Here is a selection of what I have seen:

Heipiplerke/meadow pipit

tror dette er en steinskvett / i think this is a wheatear

Heipiplerke /meadow pipit

Gravand/shellduck

Myrsnipe/dunlin

Rødstilk/redshank

Rødstilk/redshank

Syngende gulspurv/singing yellowhammer 

Green-veien white

en ung skjeggmeis/a young bearded tit

En syngende svarttrost/ a singing balckbird

En liten andunge/a m´small ducklin

Sothøne på reir/Coot on her nest

Svartbak som synger falskt? Ref realsjonen til de andre../maybe this black baack is totally out of tune? Judging from the reaction of the other.

Portrett av en andemor, fru Stokkand /portrait of mother duck, Mrs Mallard

Nei, jeg er ikke sur, bare en sulten liten spurv/ No, I am not grumpy, just a hungry little sparrow

Toppdykker i ettermiddagssol / Creasted grebe in the afternoon sun

Hettemåke på reir /black headed gull on her nest

Hettemåke /black headed gull

nå kan du ikke se meg.../no you cant see me anymore..

Tror dette er en stokkand, men Ketil hr ikke grønt hode, men flott lilla../ I think this is a mallard, but am a bit uncertain due to the purple coloured head

En syngende sivsanger / a chirping reed warbler

Samme sivsanger i profil /same reed warble in perfil

19.mai 2012.

Finally a weekend at home in Bergen, to celebrate a lot of things, my daughters engagement, the Norwegian national day, and life itself :-)
And of course, I had to try to get some pictures, and these are taken by our cabin out in Øygarden, just outside Bergen, in the western part.

A lot of oystercatcher (Tjeld) pictures first. I liked the pattern behind the bird here.

He is not trying to kill himself...

Just having a lovely and refreshing bath :-)

A heron (hegre) 

A warbler (gransanger) singing happily from the highest pine tree

Looking for birs can sometimes be a wild goose chase, but this time i found them, the gees (grå gås) that is, greylegged.

A crulew (storspove) flying by, making his caracteristic noise.

The starlings (stær) had made their nest in a boathouse, and managed to capture them flying in with food. Did  not stay long as I did not want to disturb them happy family.

13.mai 2012

I had to go back and check on the dipper..maybe this was the day when I got the perfect picture? Or a closeup of the fledglings? I got both, so I was happy :-)
I also got some pictures at Reve, but there are not many sea birds around at present.

It´s very wet being a little juvenile dipper...

hungry juvenile bird down to the left, as parent is resting on the stick. 

Lovely bird

Two of the young ones still in the nest, I recon they were 4 or 5 in total

Resting on the stick again

2 young ones

I´m so vain... a black headed segull looking at her own reflection..suppose it must be a her...?

O sole mio.....(translated from seagullsk..)

Close up of a sparrow on the beach

A grey wagtail

Closer look on the wagtail 

oh bite me.... eider you fight or you dont!

We are the champions...!!!

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The curlew seen in perfil

pure art...made by mother nature.

The last springflowers....