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A male European stonechat (Saxicola rubicola), just like the one I saw in the morning sun outside our kitchen today.

This one is from Jæren, in the last sunset of January last week. There they are seen through the winter, but on our island a little further south we don't use to see them until the end of February or early March.

But today it was here already, as the first in our municipality for the year.

I also found a second species today that was new for our municipality for the year- two razorbills (alker) out on the sea here. Extra fun, since I posted them here yesterday- saying that I rarely see them here, and it was 4.5 years since my last time ツ

It really felt like spring outside today, with sunshine after a cold night lots of birds chirping, lots of birds at sea, and even the first coltsfoots (hestehov).

(Svartstrupe-hann, in Norwegian)

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A beautiful male European stonechat (Saxicola rubicola) from the archive, on Jæren one January afternoon.

I got some new photos of one in the snow recently as well. Many of them winter on Jæren, and are normal to find there at this time.

(Svartstrupe-hann, in Norwegian)

Today I went to Jæren to see the very rare red-breasted goose for the first time (rødhalsgås in Norwegian). It had arrived together with all the other geese species there now, like on our island.

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European Stonechat (Saxicola rubicola)
2022

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