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Preening Plover by Ranveig Marie Photography

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Preening Plover

My first portrait of a northern lapwing this year (Vanellus vanellus, in the plover family), from Jæren 3.5 weeks ago.

I wish the background was better, but I just couldn't delete this one.

(Vipe (i lofamilien), in Norwegian)

I look forward to look for some more newly arrived migratory bird species tomorrow, like the ring ouzel (ringtrost in Norwegian), to add to this year's list which now numbers 135 bird species.

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Welcome back ♡ by Ranveig Marie Photography

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Welcome back ♡

In addition to the oystercatchers I posted yesterday, the first northern lapwings (Vanellus vanellus) arrived on a field in our municipality as well yesterday.

In addition to the fields, we also meet them on the skerries and beaches when they arrive on our island, like this one from the archive.

So today we will go out to search for them here as well in the nice weather.

(Vipe in Norwegian)

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Lapwings in the air by Ranveig Marie Photography

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Lapwings in the air

A northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) from our neighbourhood, from the archive. I hadn't thought I would see more of them this year before migration, but today I met a flock of at least 350 individuals (!)

I have spent more than 12 hours in a car and out by the sea and some lakes today, on an annual autumn trip to Jæren together with two others in our local BirdLife group.

We found 89 different bird species today, compared to 73 on the same trip (with more participants) last year.

There were no completely new species to us, but several new ones in a long time or for the first time this year. Or like for the northern lapwings, bar-tailed godwits and black-throated loons - flocks of more birds than we have seen before.

(Vipe in Norwegian)

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Without birds, life would not be the same by Ranveig Marie Photography

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Without birds, life would not be the same

(Martin Eggen)

I have finally set aside a day to listen to Martin Eggen's new great book "Uten fugler blir ikke livet det samme - Hvorfor fuglene forsvinner, og hva vi kan gjøre for å hjelpe dem" (Without birds, life will not be the same - Why the birds are disappearing, and what we can do to help them).

He is a nature conservation advisor at BirdLife Norway, and I have already learned much from following him on social media over the last years.

This is the critically endangered northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), on a beach in my neighbourhood.

The species has disappeared many places in Norway, but we are lucky to still have many of them nesting close to our home. They brought up many chicks this year as well.

(Vipe (kritisk truet), in Norwegian)

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Treasures of my neighbourhood ♡ by Ranveig Marie Photography

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Treasures of my neighbourhood ♡

I didn't start the day like I use to this morning, with posting a photo while drinking my coffe. Instead, I was so tired and a little unwell after last night's party, so I just went straight down to the sea to wake up.

And there I found what I hoped to find somewhere in our neigbourhood today: Two courting common terns for the first time this year! (Kurtiserende makrellterner in Norwegian.)

They didn't mind me at all, so I could take all the photos I wanted and hoped for (until my cards got full right before the best fishing and feeding moment..🙈). I saw three more terns later on, which is great since they are decreasing in number along the coast.

Then I found my first great crested grebe on our island and municipality, in another bay in the neighbourhood! (Toppdykker in Norwegian.)

And on the same spot, I finally got the beautiful common loon in breeding plumage really close for the first time! (Islom in Norwegian.)

I ended my bike ride with looking for the ringed lapwings I've seen other years, nesting on the fields nearby. I found many lapwings, but none with a ring this time.

I don't go looking for eggs or chicks since they need their peace, so this northern lapwing chick (Vanellus vanellus) is one that walked by the road on the same spot two years ago.

(Vipe-unge in Norwegian)

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Beautiful JC60 by Ranveig Marie Photography

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Beautiful JC60

Another photo of the northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) called JC60 on its ring, that I recently found again among all the breeding lapwings in our neighbourhood.

I met it on the same spot one and three years ago as well. I find it really interesting that it comes back from southern or western Europe, to that exact field.

It was ringed on the island of Karmøy six years ago as a chick, and it's only me who has registered it later on.

(Vipe in Norwegian)

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JC60! by Ranveig Marie Photography

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JC60!

Yesterday I found the northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) called JC60 on its ring again, among all the breeding lapwings in our neighbourhood.

I met it on the same spot one and three years ago as well. I find it really interesting that it comes back from southern or western Europe, to that exact field.

It was ringed on the island of Karmøy six years ago as a chick, and it's only me who has registered it later on.

(Vipe in Norwegian)

Check out more photos of it in the links below the line!

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Next Generation by Ranveig Marie Photography

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Next Generation

Even though we have several northern lapwings (Vanellus vanellus) breeding in our neighborhood, I rarely see their chicks.

They are (luckily) good at hiding, even though their parents make a lot of noise if we should get close.

But last year I met two siblings right by a dirt road, who gave me some cute photos

(Vipe-unge, in Norwegian)

Check out more chick photos in the links below the line!

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Winged Spring by Ranveig Marie Photography

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Winged Spring

For the first time this year, I had a lovely spring feeling while cycling to work today. It was milder and brighter, and I almost didn't need the bike lights.

While I was at work, Richard found the year's first northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) on our island as well! With them, spring is officially here ツ (10 days earlier than last year.) From now on, we will see more birds every day- exciting!

I'm excited to see if any of the few ringed lapwings I've met breeding in our neighborhood the last years will be back.

This one from the archive was ringed as a chick on Karmøy island 4 years before I met it. It was only found once during spring migration on Jæren after 3 years, before I met it. It's not registered later on.

(Vipe in Norwegian)

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Flying Around by Ranveig Marie Photography

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Flying Around

From my first time seing the northern lapwings (vipe in Norwegian) this year, where we live.


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Welcome Back! by Ranveig Marie Photography

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Welcome Back!

It's fun to live in a bird area! Today we saw both northern lapwings (vipe in Norwegian), common shelducks (gravand) and oystercatchers (tjeld) for the first time this spring, all of them in our neighborhood. Many of the seagulls have also arrived their mountain here. I love the sound and sight of them all!

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●> Sure Sign of Spring ●> by Ranveig Marie Photography

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●> Sure Sign of Spring ●>

The people in the region of Jæren, Norway is really happy now that the northern lapwings are back on their fields ツ When you hear them say in their dialect "Vibå æ komen!" (The lapwing has arrived!) you know that spring is here ツ

I was really lucky today, getting this shot! I have lots of images of the lapwings from a distance and in the air, but it's difficult to get close. When we drove past some fields of Jæren today, we suddenly saw two lapwings sitting right outside the window of the car. Luckily I had my camera ready ツ

I found a very cozy poem about this bird, written by one of the poets from Jæren.
It was too long to translate, but it is about a lonely lapwing coming to Jæren when there still are some frosty days left between winter and spring. She's lonely and cold, while waiting for the rest of the lapwings to arrive. Finally the sun gets warmer, the others arrive, they nest and the farmers have to walk carefully on the fields. In the end autumn arrives and the lapwings head south..
The poem in Norwegian:

Vipa

Det kjennes mest som vinter, med iskald vind frå nord,
for ennå har`kje tela slept taket i vår jord.
Men sjølv om det er våren, er natta ennå grå,
men sola stig på himmelen snart spirer korn og strå.

Ut på den snaue åker i kulde og i blest,
der sit ei stakkars vipa utan skjerf og vest.
Ho frys nok fælt på beina her på den frosne jord,
det var jo her ho hadde lagt reiret sitt i fjor.

Nå sit ho der åleine i denne kalde vind,
ho kom så all for tidleg frå vinterplassen sin.
Nå er ho blitt forkjøla og halsen er blitt sår,
eit lite hest vi-vipp er det vårt øyra når.

Kva ville ho så tidleg hjå oss her langt mot nord,
å sitje her å fryse på denne frosne jord.
Ho kom vel ekstra tidlig på besøk til oss i år,
ho burde heller venta til det vart ordentlig vår.

Men imot vind og kulde ho finn ei livdakrå,
der ho i ly for vinden ei kvilestund kan få.
Slik sit ho der og hutrar og frys den lange dag,
og ventar på at fleire vil slå seg ned i lag.

Og snart kjem store flokkar med viper ifrå sør,
så nå må ein gå varsomt og sjå kor hen ein trør.
For midt på snaue åkaren dei lagar sine reir
av strå og tørre kvistar - og ikkje noko meir.

Og sola stig på himlen, det lysnar meir og meir,
og vipa ligg og ruger på egg i sine reir.
Men snart du høyrer pip pip i millom gras og strå,
og vipemor sit stille og vaktar på dei små.

Men når ho så er ferdig med jobben for i år,
ho slår seg ned i flokken som utpå åkeren går.
Når sumaren er til ende og hausten står for dør,
då lettar heile flokken og set sin kurs mot sør.

~ Joleiv Ellingsen, from the book «Rim og stubber om koner og gubber» ~

My album of images from the region of Jæren:
www.flickr.com/photos/ranveig/sets/72157626350571083/

...and my album of birds:
www.flickr.com/photos/ranveig/sets/72157625066810660/