Simon Rix @si_rix

Bird guide based in Oslo, Norway https://t.co/Cu8HHxPELN Oslo, Norway Joined April 2013

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Simon Rix @si_rix

5 days ago

Don't we all love a bit of nictitating membrane? Here a 🇳🇴Great Grey🦉 with the blinds up and the blinds down 😀

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Marcus Workman @MarcusW992

a week ago

One of the main targets for me in a Norway was to see Black Woodpecker after failing to see them on other European birding trips! Safe to say I was happy with the views!! What an experience!

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Change of duty on the Oslo Honey Buzzard nest today. The male was sitting when I arrived & after an hour he looked up before standing up & flying off the nest. 6 minutes later the female flew in & took over incubating. No calls were heard & I don’t know if they interacted at all.

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Simon Rix @si_rix

3 weeks ago

@JeremyG48563901 Reoccupied. I first visited the nest on 19 May and there was already a fresh branch placed on the nest. Frequent visits suggested a few more branches added each day until suddenly on the afternoon of the 29th the male was on the nest (a visit in the morning had revealed no birds)

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Simon Rix @si_rix

3 weeks ago

Egg laying in Norwegian Honey Buzzard nests doesn’t normally happen until mid June with young then not flying before very end Aug/Sept. The Oslo pair I am following this year laid already 29 May which is extremely early. Both the male (first in video) and female are incubating.

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Marcus Workman @MarcusW992

3 weeks ago

Unreal experience, spending some time with this female Ural owl in the forests of Norway 🇳🇴 after a failed attempt to see them in Estonia I was absolutely over the moon to finally see this stunning species 🦉

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Marcus Workman @MarcusW992

3 weeks ago

Back in the Uk after a fantastic long weekend in Norway 🇳🇴 being guided by @si_rix Trip of a lifetime with amazing views of every target species, Great Grey, Tengmalm’s, Ural Owls and Black Woodpecker, had a quick look in the airport at my videos so here is a preview 🤔

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Simon Rix @si_rix

4 weeks ago

Norwegian birders have a tradition of eating a Gullbrød to celebrate a lifer (made of marsipan it means «golden bread»). It’s not to my taste but traditions have to be upheld and @MarcusW992 & dad Graham had many excuses to eat one this owly weekend near Oslo. GG, Ural & Teng 🦉

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Simon Rix @si_rix

4 weeks ago

Feeding time at the Black Woodpecker nest. Both the parent (in this case dad) and the young need to be careful with those dagger like bills being waved around

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Simon Rix @si_rix

2 months ago

A female Ural Owl hooting at a nest site yesterday. Shortly after she hooted the male flew in. I wonder if she was calling for help to deal with the smelly, ugly intruder into their territory😉 🇳🇴

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Simon Rix @si_rix

2 months ago

@MarcusW992 I’m looking forward to it too!

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Simon Rix @si_rix

2 months ago

Female Ural & Great Grey Owls alarm calling. Wednesday saw my first check of the year for breeding owls north of Oslo. There is uncertainty as to whether it’s a good year & there are definitely local variations but I found single GG and Ural at nest sites which is a good start.

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Simon Rix @si_rix

3 months ago

It might be a grainy picture but geese nerds will like it: 5 Taiga Beans from the Scottish wintering population at their regular staging site near Oslo but also, and this is where it gets fun, a Tundra Bean on the right and a single Pink-foot. More here: oslobirder.blogspot.com

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Simon Rix @si_rix

4 months ago

@Mesoy640 Although the bobbing may help with dislodging food items I have seen them bobbing many times when they are clearly not feeding. The theory that makes most sense to me is that they are signalling to potential predators that they are fit and healthy and ready to fly off if attacked

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Simon Rix @si_rix

4 months ago

It seems the internet loves a bouncing bird so here is another Jack Snipe taken yesterday in Oslo. After 7 very cold weeks the forecast says we will soon have temperatures above zero and rain so it looks like this bird has done well and survived a Norwegian winter.

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Simon Rix @si_rix

4 months ago

The sun is finally high enough to illuminate the Hazel Grouse’s favourite trees and this male yesterday was a joy to watch as it both sang and ate snow from a branch high up in alder tree. Oslo

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Simon Rix @si_rix

4 months ago

Three-toed Woodpeckers often show REALLY well once you have first found them. Problem is that when they aren’t drumming (which they’ve yet to start with) then they can also be really difficult to find. I saw this bird today three hours after it was first found on exactly the same

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Simon Rix @si_rix

4 months ago

Oslo is experiencing it's coldest period for decades with temperatures above zero on only 4 days since 1 Jan. It is therefore surprising that Jack Snipe are still going strong with up to 4 in the area I watch and they are roosting in the day so clearly find enough food at night.

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Simon Rix @si_rix

4 months ago

@GibsonTomgibo Numbers & breeding areas change wildly between years with Hawk Owl being nomadic over the whole of fenno scandinavia - last year quite a few bred in southern Norway which had an OK rodent year. Tengmalm’s and GGO are far less nomadic and just don’t breed or even sing in bad years

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Simon Rix @si_rix

4 months ago

Sadly it doesn’t look like the forecast top year for rodents and therefore owls is occuring and a nocturnal trip yesterday gave just 1 singing Tengmalm’s on a route which produced 11 a year ago. This Pygmy 🦉 on the patch today was quite literally only a small compensation. Oslo