Signs from above

It has been 3 days since my last birding day, and my first two days without any new species seen for the year. Today, a friend and myself decided to take a trip to the forests in the Meråker area close to the Swedish border in hope to find any Crossbills (korsnebber)or maybe even a Pine grosbeak (konglebit). Lots of wind made things a bit difficult, but when two planes crossed each other paths and made a perfect X - we both got rather optimistic.

Despite of the promising sky, very few birds were seen. Highlights were a Grey-headed woodpecker (gråspett) and a Hawk owl (haukugle). Both seen earlier in the short history of Big Year Norway so far, but anyway exciting to see.

Today, I was interviewed in radio about the Big Year project. Very nice that the public and media seem to take a great interest in this exciting year!

New species: 0
Total: 98

The second hawk owl for the year. Lots of them around at
the moment, and hopefully one of its larger cousins will
appear soon. 

A magic pattern for twitchers. Could the sky look any better than this?

-EG-