While waiting for Mommy, we managed to roam the bookshop right after Mosvannet. There's basically a few required fugler books for Norway I think, at least for the Stavanger area, and as far as I can tell these are :
a) Fugler for Folk Flest (Birds for Most People) - in Norwegian
b) Fugler of Mosvannet og Stokkavannet (Birds of Mosvannet and Stokkavannet) - in Norwegian
c) Fugler (Birds) - in Norwegian
d) Birds of Europe - English version
e) A Birdwatcher's Guide to Norway - English version
The first two can easily found in most bookshops, both are beautifully photographed coffeetable books, the latter concentrating on Mosvannet and Stokkavannet only. Fugler is a summarised photoguide of birds of Norway and nearby. Birds of Europe is the definitive guide for Europe at least when I bought it back in 2001, still is I think.
The last book in a very comprehensive and very valuable addition to birdwatching in Norway by Bjorn Olav Tveit, a Norwegian (an Oslo local) who wrote the book out of frustration for the lack of detailed local information on Norwegian birds in the country. I love it at first glance and ordered it direct, it arrived two days later in the mail. All my future birdwatching trips is now sorted, all that's left are leave days.
Now back to Tufted Duck, we went back to Mosvannet during the late afternoon hours to check out the more favorable front lighting. These are some shots I got:
Only now I noticed the subtle purple wash on the males face, beautiful ... front lighting rocks!
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