Uploading Chestnut Bunting

Chestnut caos :-)
Originally uploaded by atgrims

Wow what a Mega Bird!

5'th record on the A-list for Norhern Europe. Altoug Utsira and Norway's 2'nd finding. Last seen 36 years ago in 1974.

Read more in Utsira BirdingStation:


And also blogged in my Posterous:

Refleksjon - A boat in the sky

Refleksjon - A boat in the sky
Originally uploaded by atgrims

Det ble sølv! Et enkelt og klassisk speilbildefoto klarte å nå til sølvmedalje i Twitter Fotokonkurransen TwPhCh 18'de omgang.
Sølvmedaljen fra Twitter Photo Challenge

Ikke nok med det. Bildet nådde også opp i Flickr sin wall of fame i Explore. Som er Flickr sine 500 mest interessante foto som er lastet opp på aktuell dato. Refleksjon ble lastet opp den 11. september. Her er mine 6 foto som fortiden er i Explore.

Flickr undervurdert som sosialt medium og historiebok

Sjekk opp dette foto fra Utsira Folkebibliotek sin Flickr konto.

Arbeidslag på Skare 1954. Ta del i fiskarbonden sin hverdag.

Slekt! Paraleller til Russisk Realisme,...smak av Pasternak og Gogol, ville kanskje vår kjære Martin Nag ha sagt om dette foto?

Rundt omkring i Nasjonen i de fleste Folkebibliotek, finner du slike kulturskatter. Lite tilgjenglig nedstøvet i arkiv, eller i et annet mindre tilgjenglig, lukket, og overpriset foto medium.

er det største fotonettverk på web. Du får ikke bare venner, men også konstuktiv kritikk og nye ideer til bedre foto. Det finnes mer en 5 milliarder foto fra hele verden, der de fleste ligger ute som cc Creative Commons. Ved hjelp av grupper, tags på egne og andre brukere sine foto, kan du fremstille spennede billedhistorier på nett.

Her er noen Utsira tags fra Nordvikvågen, Sørevågen. utsira 2005. Til slutt. Alle foto på flickr nylig lagt til med tag fra 1954 10.000 treff. Du kan velge om du vil søke i tags eller fritekst, egne eller alle sine bilder.

Oppdateringer:
Flickr figurer endelig med i oversikt over sosiale medier (nettverk) i bt.no i artikkelen 'Alltid på' om sosiale nettverk 14. februar 2009

Collage of Moon rise

Stressfull moments at rise and fall of moon. The few minutes from the moon rise or fall is intense and fast. The dillemma is how to get the camera steady and how to focus on the moon until it's to late and the moon has arisen over the horison. More Flickr shot of moon thru binoculars and Nicon Coolpix

In norwegian:
Collage over fullmånebilder i det månen stiger opp over horisonten. Dette foregår på 5 tll 10 minutter og du må gjøre raske valg for hvordan du vil bevare detaljer i horisonten og detaljer i månen. Har du klaff så kan du få gode bilder av månen. Her er flere bilder av månen tatt gjennom kikkert og coolpix

Dailylife at Ferryboat

New photos added at my Flickr today. December is a calm month and nice heading off to Haugesund. Took a few shots of chif preapearing for yesterdays afternoon trip at Utsira

Gangstera så rule på Utsira

Klar for svømmehallen
Originally uploaded by atgrims

Dagbladet hauser opp en medieskapt 'konflikt' mellom emo-kids og gangstera. Forstålig i Mexico City hvor kidsa har lite å ta seg til - Real street-life?

I Ålesund er det en som har snakket med for store bokstaver på et ubetydelig nettsted. Her er det noen som vil selge musikk, klær eller livsstil? Mange har tidligere blitt skambankt bare fordi man går med Islender på Karmøy. Dette blir for dumt! Lite omveltning siden White Riot og Cry for the Fire.

Utsira banned Yellow-browed Warbler controlled at Faeroe Islands

Interesting control of ringed bird at Utsira Birdstation. The rare Siberian vagrant was ringed at Utsira in Norway on the 5'th Oct - 06 and controlled 7 days later at Sunnari on Suduroy (south island) on Faeroe Islands on the 12'th Oct-06.
Detailed data on the bird on Stavanger Museum ring AN7680.: Click on snapshot text photo

Taigasångare - Yellow-browed from Suduroy on Faeroe Island with ring on the 7'th of Oct. 2006. Photo by Flickr friend laser-tomas

A paper by Steve Williams on the Yellow-browed Warbler in North West (2005) in Birding North West points out two other records of controlled Yellow-browed Warblers in Europe.

1. The known control from Hedemark in Norway to Fair Isle, Shetland on the 26th September 1990 (2004, Pennington & All, Birds of Shetland) The bird was trapped at Busta, Fair Isle and had been ringed five days earlier in Hedemark. This remains the only foreign-ringed Yellow-Browed Warbler controlled in Britain.

2. and another ringed at Portland on 21st October 1988 was re-trapped on Guernsey the very next day.

7'th March is the Crow Day - Kråkedag (in norw.)

Went out shooting a picture of me and some Hooded Crow. Just to remind us about the Crow's Day today! The Crows at Utsira are very special and intelligent. Naturally I'd to share my 'matpakke' with the Hooded today. Read more in my Flickr page.

The Crow has got a vital place in the Norwegian Folklore and old Weather-sign. Thus they are mystic, intelligent and always present. The old painters used the Crow as a sign of death. E.g as the Norwegian painter Th. Kittelsen Pesta motive.

An Utsira Crow who was partial melangistic and named 'white-wing' has become a main character in a Children Book 'Fabel Jakob' by Grete Randsborg Jenseg. The third book in the Fabel Jakob story is published today on the Crows Day! Fabel Jakob, havet og den lille melketanna

You can order the norwegian book here: Cappelen


Next Crow Day to watch out is the Crow's great 'Tingdag'. When the Crows are told to have their big meting, often in a huge tree. 12'th of March is St. Gregors Messe . On the 'primstav' an old calendar, there is a sign of a Dove. But in Norway this is misunderstood as a Crow! Thus there is a lot of signs and marks related on this day too.

Good luck with your publishing event today Grete.

Utsira is the Blocker King

Latest issue of the Swedich Rare Bird Magazine 'Road Runner' for Club 300 has listed up blockers between Sweden, Denemark, Norway and Finland. The Nordic Blockerlist is an interesting paper!

The paper however do'nt summarise the blockers between the contries. But pictures tells more than words? Seven of Seventeen blocker-photos were from Utsira.
Among these are: Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler, Brown Shrike, Masked Shrike, Sibirian Rubythroat, Pechora Pipit and my picture of the Thick-billed Warbler.

Say no more....

In my Norwegian Blog

Your own calendar? Lage egen kalender i Flickr?

My creation
Originally uploaded by atgrims.

Make your own calendar? Easy for us Flickr members!

New slides show in my links. More fun for Flickrs here



Lage egen kalender? Enkelt for Flickr medlemer.

Blogge slides show er enkelt her på fd's Flickr toys:
Nytt slide-show lagt ut på blogg

Nordvikvågen square format

Nordvikvågen square format
Originally uploaded by atgrims.

At least I solved the squear format problem in picasa. My favorite picture editor picasa don't support 100% square croping tools!

Tell you how? Perhaps an other time?

A click on the picture will lead you to my flickr-page.

Actually it's the preinstalled Jasc Paint Shop Poto Album 4.0 deliverered on my Dell. Where I can crop squares in open view. Still Picasa is the Best!

My photos in Explore top 500

3 photos in explore (top 500 interestingness) is a great improvment for me! Lots of pictures from Utsira are posted in my Flicker page. Allso got a set called Utsira as way of Life and a set called Birding Utsira. Click for slideshow