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He, or is it a she, is a migrant bird, and every year when autumn comes he/she spend some time in our garden.
Because he is so small, much smaller than the other songbirds, it is actually quite easy to spot it.
And since my camera is always ready and Terje had washed the windows the day before.......well, I got some great photos, didn't I? :-)
A common chiffchaff, or gransanger as we say in Norwegian.
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I feed the garden birds almost all year round, which rewards us with quite a lot of different birds. Among our favourites are the great spotted woodpeckers. They are at our cabin also, and some times we even see European green woodpecker there, and even from time to time some of the other woodpeckers which you can find in Norway.
I had breakfast out in the garden this morning when this guy came and had his breakfast together with me. Yes, he is a male, something I can see from the red spot on his neck.
It is a lovely summer day here in my corner of the world today. I plan to spend it out in the garden, mostly weeding, sorting out a few plants, enjoying the beauty of it all. A privilege now when I am retired.
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The book in the above picture, A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier, have you read it? I love it and will talk more about it another day. Now when I am back to blogging, I have so many plans.......
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An updated the list of my active blogs:
Akeleiehagen - The Blue Garden (click on the picture)
Fløy en liten blåfugl - my birding journal (click on the picture)
maskerade - my knitting journal (click on the picture)
Britt Arnhilds dagboksblader - my online journal (click on the picture)
Nederst i hagen - my greenhouse diary (click on the picture)
Britt Arnhilds naturdagbok - my nature journal (click on the picture)
Hytteliv på Rastarbo - cabin life (click on the picture)
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Terje and I are spending the weekend at the cabin. Winter, but no snow, tough some very wet snowflakes are falling from time to time, but melt quite fast. Used as I am to a white world at this time of the year, the winter green nature fascinates me. Wet, lush in a kind of deep, sparkling green way, a few songbirds out even at this time of the year, days still short.
Inspecting the nest boxes is what we always do at this time of the year, before the birds start looking for a place to lay their new eggs. But look, what has happened to this box? To hole is way to big for a tit or a flycatcher! Who is the sinner? A squirrel? A woodpecker?
We have no idea. But as a pair of flycatchers come back here every years to breed, Terje changes the nest box with another one we have, with a hole the correct size.
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I had a bad fall in the wet, slippery snow just outside our cabin this morning. Hurt my left index finger badly, a finger which is essential when I knit. So here I am, updating blogs instead of knitting. So far today two other blogs have been updated:
Fløy en liten blåfugl - my birding journal
Med bøker på menyen - my reading journal
Britt Arnhilds dagboksblader - my online journal
Maskerade - my knitting journal
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Summer in April is not something we experience every year here where I live. But these days we are having such a lovely weather. The colours in the garden are exploding, there will hopefully be more garden posts here in the days to come, and the birds are super busy.
Terje and I skipped church today (yes, I know we shouldn't.......) and spent all day in the garden instead.
While we had our morning coffee (Jane, you know all about our non-calory coffees.......) a male house sparrow was busy building his nest. It was amazing to watch how fast he worked with his beak.
For many years the house sparrows were the most common song birds here. They they seemed to have left us for several years, but now they are fully back. I love them. Gray and somewhat plain as they might look, they really are among my favourites. And a children's song about a little house sparrow boy is the song I sang most for Leander when he was a baby, and now sing for Milian.
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I went back to the river yesterday, and was lucky. The swans were close by.
I was busy with m y camera,
and had great fun.
Whooper swans are beautiful, aren't they?
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Today I havde finished and posted a new podcast. Sorry in Norwegian only, but the first part is a walk along the river Nidelven downtown, and you need not understand Norwegian to see enjoy the beauty.
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I used to be so much more confident doing cross country skiing than I am now. My body feels too stiff, what if I fall? So when Marta came home Sunday morning and went out skiing with Terje, I drove down to the river, bird watching.
Another bird watched was there already, with a bag full of breads, making quite an activity among the birds.
I found a perfect spot to stand with my camera,
and had a lot of fun :-)
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I made a new podcast today, no 4:2019
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We have been up in the mountains today, to the special bird watching place we found last year. The Teide bird, the blue finch, was there, and a few others :-)
Tomorrow we fly home.
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Blogs updated today:
Britt Arnhild´s House in the Woods
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The weather was grey yesterday, rain in Tirano where our Bernina Express ride started, snow when we came up to Saint Moritz.
Snow doesn´t stop us, stuborn Norwegian as we are. We put on some warm clothes, yes, we had read the weather forecast before packing, every Norwegian reads the weather forecast, it is just as important as out brown bread and cod liver oil for breakfast :-) After a nice, local lunch and a stroll in the town center, we continue down to the lake, and to my pure delight, I saw birds, many of them, some I had never seen before.
Photographing birds is not easy when it is icy cold and snowing, but I could not let that stop me, could I?
A little grebe, adult and baby, new to my list.
A grey wagtail, first time this year for me.
An Eurasian coot, and many more.
And today we woke up to this blue, blue sky.
We learned yesterday that Saint Moritz has at least 320 sun days every year, so for us to have two grey days in a row.......impossible.
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We can see more than fjord and mountains from our cabin. I was out on the terrace early this morning, while Terje was still asleep, photographing a busy nuthatch. Then, all of a sudden, I saw something big flying by.
I turned around and managed three shots.
A young white-tailed eagle.
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A quiet moment all by myself, and I sat down on the terrace to watch the birds.
Managed to get a few photos, a nuthatch,
and a treecreeper.
And during a break in the rain, I decided to continue some work I started last autumn - to sculpture some of the pine trees in front of the cabin.
I have no idea where this will end, but I love to try this new road.
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My blog world today (will be updated):
Caffe Avec, the travel blog. Today with a tale from a historical botanical garden in Tuscany
dagens lille grønne - green ideas
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