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Nature is the greatest artist
As a photographer I often try to make my pictures something special - something close to art. However, sometimes, it is just to point the camrea and shoot. Welcome to the world of the mandarin duck...
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Green-winged teal
03 April The day started way too early. Already at 3 am I found myself on the road! I received tip of a Lynx (gaupe) that was eating on a roe deer (rådyr) kill a few hours away (thanks to local...
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Travelling around Norway, trying to spot as many birds as possible for my Big Year project is fun and exciting. It also means, as it shows on this blog, that I spend less time trying to take pictures....
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Tripple yankee doodle doo
Busy times indeed. Blue sky and steady easterly winds all the way from south eastern Europe to Norway made spring bird migration finally arrive! Despite little snow, and early spring botanical wise,...
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May o'hoi!
May has arrived, and as promised in the previous blog, I have made my way south. For most of May I will be having the very southern tip of Norway as a base. I will stay at one of Norway's finest...
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Two hundred - and then some!
May is just as busy as expected. I appologize for not keeping this blog as updated as I should. I try to at least keep the species list updated day by day, so you can follow my progress. Writing and...
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Melanistic Montagu's harrier!
10 May The day started rather slow, and with few birds seen in the morning. I decided to go to a local decidious forest to look for Wood Warbler (bøksanger) - a new Big Year bird. Havnehagen just...
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Busy May
Keeping a blog updated in the busy month of May, is more challenging than I actually expected. Much because the weather has been great and the birding also very good. I have been birding every single...
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Big Year in Svalbard
It has been a while. The reason is that I am doing my annual Arctic visit. Doing a Big Year means spending a lot of money on travelling, flights, car rental, toll roads and let alone petrol. Now I have...
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Varanger
I will just start this post with apologizing for not keeping it all up to date. I have the last weeks spent all of my time out in the field, and had no proper access to phones or internet for most of...
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Demoiselle crane and then some!
25 June – 5 JulyI have again been guiding nature photographers for WildPhoto Travel, and besides trying to find great things for them to photograph I also had a goal to tick off the last breeding...
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Svalbard again
The last week I have spent again guiding around Svalbard. This time a group of primarily Australian passengers went with me and my colleagues from Aurora Expeditions. Polar bears were again high on the...
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Røst Pelagic
30 Jul – 9 AugAnother ten days of guiding around Svalbard was setting an end to this year’s Arctic season for me. About 50 passengers, mostly from Australia, were taken to some of the best wildlife...
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Lista Bird Observatory
In Norway, we have very few bird observatories. Even fewer that has done long term ringing and observations in a standardized way. Lista bird observatory is the one with the longest tradition, and...
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On the seven seas - or just the Barent's sea
I am still out at sea, doing a bird survey. That means birding every day, but not in a way that necessarily increases my Big Year list very much. However, when you are out there, there is always hope....
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Big Year birding again
Big Year project is again up and running after a few weeks at sea. As I am not earning any money by doing the Big Year, I need unfortunately to work a little bit now and then to be able to still have a...
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Røst 1
Røst - arrived and already on my third day on this rarity magnet of an island. Through the years, no island in Norway has built such an impressive species list in such a short time. Especially during...
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Røst 2, on a rarity island with no rarities...
As mentioned in the previous post, I am on one of the biggest rarity magnets in Norway. Autumn birding, or island birding like I am doing at the moment is all about patience and not losing faith. To...
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Røst 3 - no birds for days, but then...
It is just an hour until my flight leaves, and my stay here at Røst has come to an end. Before I came, I had a vague hope of getting about 15 Big Year birds - I got 4....It is safe to say that bird...
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WOW, wow, WOW, wow, wow, wow!
The last week has been busy - very busy. I have been on the road, on my way to a twitch or out birding myself. In the last blog, I wrote that I would try the next day for a Woodchat shrike...
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