I will admit, up front, that this blog entry contains the worst photos of all. Couldn't be helped. Still May 30th. Still coastal Norway. At Syltefjord, and still looking at birds through a spotting scope. The birds were distant, but at least they were floating.
Front bird - Silhouetted Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata).
Above and two below: the photos get slightly better in the 2nd and 3rd spots.
Arctic Loon (Gavia arctica), for us Black-throated Loon
The Arctic Loon was a male in breeding plumage and an extremely attractive bird. One of my favorites.
Above: Use your imagination and it's possibly the best photo for a better sense of the bird. The Arctic Loon is a stunning bird. Would have been wonderful to see it closer. Mostly a Siberian breeder and the couple of Arctic Loons we saw were in passage to Siberia.
What is this? Another in passage to Siberia.
White-billed Loon (Gavia adamsii), our Yellow-billed Loon.
I think both Arctic Loon and White-billed Loon are better names for these birds. I'm unlikely to ever see either again. Very happy to see both in Norway.
(Eurasian) Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)
Noisy, always present bird which feels like we saw everywhere. We even saw it our first night along the roadside at the industrial park where we saw the Terek Sandpiper. I saw it walking along rooftops, along old, broken down wharfs, nesting along the road of Båtsfjord Harbor and on a man-made structure at a roadside rest area, along lakes and rocky shores. Everywhere. Of the many photos of Oystercatcher I tried for, this is really the only one I like. I can see the red eye.
Flying across the harbor.
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