Tromsø is, as you by now must be aware of, at 70*N in northern Norway and this
means that around Christmas we have no sun at all (away for two months) and
only minimally with daylight. This year the situation was aggravated by a
series of severe winter storms, that mostly hit W. Norway, but that also here
resulted in strong winds , lots of precipitation, sadly mostly as rain or
sleet, and very slippery roads. So my birding was largely confined to peering
through my window into the gloom, at my sunflowerseed feeding tubes; but also
those have not been very much visited these last weeks. Nevertheless, in the
morning, almost before there is any twilight at all, a few tits come to visit
(Great and Willow Tits) and now and then the local band of mostly young
Greenfinches descends on the tubes and feeds greedily. Hooded Crows and
Black-billed Magpies are as always around, the crows having lots of fun in the
strong winds, but the magpies mainly bothered by it, seemingly. Along the sound
Herring Gulls soar, and that's all I have seen lately.
I wish you all a Merry Christmas (what's left of it) and a happy and
bird-filled 2012.
Wim
Vader, Tromsø Museum
9037 Tromsø, Norway
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