Rodnebbterne / Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)

Maps ready stamped in our minds, routes perfectly etched. This is our foray in an attempt to slowly complete our house and my fairly mild attempt at doing a recce of surrounding birding sites in preparation for days to come. So first we pinned IKEA, Kvadrat ... then a look and see around Tungenes and Boraunen.

At least that's what we thought anyways. The shopping at IKEA went through harmlessly enough followed by lunch and some more shopping. By 13:40hrs we left the shopping grounds heading for Bergen and the planned turn-off at Randaberg to find the lighthouse at Tungenes.

We failed to make our turning and ended up in a very long dimly lit tunnel with fast moving cars underneath Bru for what seemed like a mini eternity and emerged light starved in the middle of Sokn. Still dazed we quickly rushed to what looked like a parking lot in the first open space we saw. No lighthouse today!

We found a nice big rock by the shore just beside the bridge to rest. Other the view there were several flitting birds around the same place. Over yonder on another rock in the sea we could see more birds, seagulls, terns and a swan among them. There was also a duck somewhere in the midst. 

Close to where we were sitting was a pipit, it was calling forlornly and above, a tern expertly doing acrobatics in strong winds. The pipit turned out to be Meadow Pipit and the tern was Arctic Tern. Two new birds! There's a reward afterall.

Our foray didn't exactly ended up where we wanted, but it could not have been a better place. IWe stumbled on a great spot we weren't initially planning for. Rodnebbterne / Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea  is a new bird for me, and so is the Heipiplerke / Meadow Pipit Anthus pratensis. It was a good day to be taking wrong turns.

Well, we did turn around and made it to Bo and almost to Tungenes, we'll save those for another sunny day.