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unknown in harsh light, north norway (1 Viewer)
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Phil Andrews
It's only Rock and Roller but I like it
Its a skua
Stuart Darbyshire
45th generation Northern
Bonxie
Floyd Barnes
Well-known member
Arctic Skua.
Simon Wates
Well-known member
Bonxie
Phil Andrews
It's only Rock and Roller but I like it
Certainly looks a heavy enough build to be a Great Skua; Arctic would look slimmer and more falcon like
Rotherbirder
Well-known member
Thanks guys.
This was quite incidental find, as I saw this bird chasing a white-tailed eagle on the top of the hill. I was taking some landscape photos and eating with my girlfriend and not really paying so much attention, but it looked big. My first guess was a GBBG but even against the sun was too dark and the flight pattern did not seem right for that bird. So I just had time to snap these two shots.
I'm happy it is a bonxie, I saw a few in Iceland some years ago but it was the first and only on this trip.
Cheers
This was quite incidental find, as I saw this bird chasing a white-tailed eagle on the top of the hill. I was taking some landscape photos and eating with my girlfriend and not really paying so much attention, but it looked big. My first guess was a GBBG but even against the sun was too dark and the flight pattern did not seem right for that bird. So I just had time to snap these two shots.
I'm happy it is a bonxie, I saw a few in Iceland some years ago but it was the first and only on this trip.
Cheers
Ratal
Well-known member
You are up in Varanger yes? and this is your first Great Skua? I frankly am stunned.
Happy you found one / came across one, but wowser, am shocked.
This one was actually found in Gjesvaer, close to Nordkapp, west of Varanger. I was in the area for a few days on holidays with my girlfriend, so birding was not the only thing I could do
Why are you shocked? Do you think I should have seen many more? Or because I was lucky to see one?
The information I got in there is that late August is not that good anymore.
I'm a beginner so I might have missed many things (adding that I was on normal holidays with my girlfriend and weather was really bad for 2 or 3 days), but I don't believe all four species were in abundance
