Oslobirder

I do still look at birds honestly but have not really had much to write about recently. And even though I have not been looking at butterflies this post will once again be about one - the same one - that has featured in my last two posts.

I started my last post by saying I thought it would be my last butterfly post of the year and I did expect that to be the case but that post in itself has spawned definitely this post and probably another in the hopefully not too distant future.

So, my last post detailed me having seen an Essex Skipper (timoteismyger) Thymelicus lineola which was new for me in No...

This will, I think, be my last butterfly post of the year so please bear with me 😊

Sunday and Monday saw us driving back from Bodø to Oslo with us again taking the scenic but by no means slow route via Røros and Trysil. This allowed me to see Silvery Argus (kileblåvinge) for the second time and once again they were easy to find along a road. We also drove p...

A whole seven days after the last day of sun we saw it again yesterday although I had to drive over an hour to experience it and its arrival was a whole three hours later than forecast - but it was all worth it in the end!

I, of course, went to Sulitjelma and hunted butterflies. I was not alone on that errand with another birder/butterer visiting all the way from Lista....