Tungenes

Hot on the trails of the Rodnebbterne / Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea) at Sokn, I figure a second trip to Tungenes was in order. This time we entered in an actual address into the GPS: "Tungenesvein 217".

We made it over in 30mins from home to be received by a drizzling morning rain. Odin be with us, the drizzle stopped after about 5 minutes, the sun rolled in bringing along blueskies and thick white clouds.

Immediately upon opening the car door we were greeted by a friendly Linerle / White Wagtail Moticilla alba and almost in succession a pair of Rodnebbterne hunting at the little harbour and Storskarv / Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo flying across. We had two pairs and a half of storkarv that single morning!

And it didn't stop there ... there were more on the rugged coast as the morning progressed including an Aerfugl / Common Eider  Somateria mollisima bobbing up and down at sea! The Oystercatcher and seagulls are of course all over the place.

White Wagtail with an insect for the young.

A little fish for breakfast for the Arctic Tern.

Arctic Tern in a most graceful flight along the rocky coast.

A pair of Great Cormorant making a fly-pass. We ended up seeing five of these at Tungenes.

A male Steinkvett / Northern Wheater Oenanthe oenanthe with a treat for the youngins.

This female Northern Wheater went through a complex flight plan everytime it brings food to the nest to deceive potential predators and draw them away from the nest. All the while we were watching not five metres away.

The last icing for the day has to be what we saw as we slowly ambled towards the car, a pair of Sandlo / Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula. I spent a good 20 minutes admiring this confiding plover as it went back and forth towards me.

My last  actual sighting of this beautiful plover was back in 2009 during our DIY Wader Workshop in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. The single sighting was made by our group at Lok Kawi Beach. Over the years one single sighting of this plover is made every year at Lok Kawi by birder friends in KK.

Tungenes rocks! There's still Bo the explore, not to mention the entire rocky coast north of Tungenes, betcha there're some niceties there too.