Wednesday 21 March 2018

News from Simon Rix in Norway today 21 March 2018

Hi all bloggers

Exciting news received from Simon in Oslo today.

Norway is experience very cold weather and lots of snow in and around Oslo. Never one to be deterred he took a trip to the Glomma River this morning.

Arriving at 0945 he found 11 bean geese at the rivers edge trying to feed on vegetation.

At 0958 this group were disturbed (not surprisingly) by a hunting White Tailed Eagle which took a fancy to one of them but didn't manage it.

By 1030 numbers of bean geese had gone up to 76 with 1 Pinkfoot in attendance

He was witnessing the movement from Denmark which we had been waiting on but unsure of when this would happen due to the extremely cold conditions in Denmark.

The arrival of birds was as follows - 11-13-15-16-76-78

Collars seen so far - 3Y, 7V plus 4 Juvs and probably T8, S8

His blog (oslobirder.blogspot.co.uk) will be updated soon with pictures and possibly a video clip of this arrival in Norway.

Latest update on Tag27 is that it is still in Denmark.