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....

Sunday 29.april

A lovely day today, sunny and not much wind. Went out to look for bearded tits, but met someone who told me where to find a grey wagtail AND the dipper! The latter very high up on my wish list, and being Norways national bird, I was hoping for a very good shot..judge yourselves.

Saturday 28.april

After a slow start, the sun finally won over the rain and the wind blew the cliuds away. And off I went with my camera. This is todays catch:

Sunday 22.april

This was a very rainy Sunday, so all the birds were so wet, poor little things...

An eider (ærfugl), this was before the rain started. 

Bartailed godwit (svarthalespove) 

Lapwing (vipe)

A very wet robin (rødstrupe)

A very cold and wet wagtail (linerle)

And the oystercatcher (tjeld)

A curlew (storspove)