Monday, 20 January 2014

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-
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4 comments:

  1. Unknown23 January 2014 at 14:41

    Hi Eirik! Your almost at 100 species! Congrats on the progress so far; I hope the 100th will be a good one to bag! Good luck! Best. Eric

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  2. Eirik Grønningsæter / WildNature.no25 January 2014 at 12:10

    Thanks Eric! It is a quite good selection to choose from still, so who knows what will be the next one. As long as it is a new bird, I am always happy. Good luck to yourself! Im quite impressed with the number of miles you are covering and it must be exciting to do birding in so many different countries from cycling through the different landscapes.

    -EG-

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  3. Anonymous1 February 2014 at 09:48

    Hvilken radiostasjon etc var det? :)

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  4. Eirik Grønningsæter / WildNature.no1 February 2014 at 20:50

    Hei, jeg har vært to ganger på nrk Møre og Romsdal i forrige uke (blant annet 20.januar, ettermiddagssendinga). Det vil også komme et innslag i NRK Finnmark om ikke altfor lenge. Samt noe tv innslag etterhvert. Vet ikke helt når de tenker å sende innslagene enda. // Hi, I've been two times in NRK Møre og Romsdal last week. The radio NRK Finnmark made an interview this week, but not sure when they will broadcast it. Also some tv stuff to come soon on national tv - but not sure when.

    -EG-

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