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Week 10: Mission Stonechat
Spring 2026 officially began at 14:00 on Sunday 1 March. I had just arrived on Malmøya for the afternoon when my first Skylark (sanglerke) of the year flew over, giving its delightful buzzes and trills. I so look forward to this moment every year. Skylarks are of course fabulous songsters and an almost excessively iconic…
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Week 4: If I cannot get it right now…
We’re well into the January doldrums, when the slight excitement provided by a brand new year is but a distant memory. It’s unrelentingly grey and dull in Oslo and the bird gods are unmoved in the bestowing goodies department. I turn instead to the pop divas for a bit of inspiration and escapism from a…
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Week 3: 70!
We’re just over halfway through January, but I’m calling it already: Long-tailed Tit (stjertmeis) is the indisputed bird of the month. No, I’ve not completely lost the plot; there is a good reason for this nomination of a fairly common—though very lovely—species. Indeed, yesterday (Saturday) saw Long-tailed Tit join the hallowed ranks of birds I’ve…
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Week 2: Spice in the snow
Given it’s the second week of January where nothing exciting can reasonably be expected to happen on the feathered front, I’ve actually got no complaints. Things have generally felt quite quiet, but there’s been some welcome spice sprinkled on top of what are otherwise bland servings. A case in point was today’s bracing pootle up…
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Week 1: Tickety-boo
This, the first Sunday of the year has come only four days in, which is just as well as I’ve been positively itching to kick-start the blog again, full of the vim and vigour that can only stem from a recently forged New Year’s resolution. Strange to think it now but the week actually began…
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The Year in Review: Birding 2025 (part 1)
Now that 2025 is over, I look back on some memorable moments between January-June.
The Revived Birder
thoughts and musings, usually about birds, from a transplant to Oslo
The Revived Birder 