With the Norwegian Kroner doing relatively poorly against the Pound Sterling I am thinking that a trip to Norway would be good, especially to Trondheim, which I liked most of all during my 3 visits to the country in 2012-13. I referred back to this thread but there were no replies, so I thought that I'd do the “sad” thing and reply to my own thread!
With one exception I didn't see any rarities in and around Trondheim, but there were quite a few species which I was pleased to see when I was there in July 2012. The most unusual species was an Iceland gull, of which I saw a first-summer bird by the harbour opposite Sandgata on the 18th.
I also had 2 trips out of the city that day, one out to Monkholmen, around which I saw 20 eiders and a black guillemot, which I thought was breeding in boulders on the islet. That morning I caught the tram to the end of the line at Lian. I walked almost a lap around the lake, Lianvatnet, seeing 6 wigeon - two ducks, one of which had 4 well grown ducklings. I had a walk up a hillside from the lake and was pleased to see or hear 5 yellowhammers, which were numerous in the Isle of Man in my youth but are now down to a few pairs. Also on that walk I saw a common redstart and two whinchats, a male and a fledgling.
Swifts were quite common in Trondheim itself, and I saw 20 on two of the days that I was there. Fieldfares were also common, especially around Nidaros Domkirke, the famous cathedral. On the first evening, the 16th, I had a meal sitting outside a restaurant on Øvre Bakklandet. The sight of 31 rooks heading over the city was a bit of a surprise, as I had rarely seen them away from the British Isles. I also heard a chiffchaff singing a rather confusing song, with the notes all in the wrong order.