Route 1907 is
the last one I had to survey. On the previous day we managed to find out that
there is a trail leading to the first survey plot. If we hadn’t found that it
would have been really difficult. The first point was about 2 km from the road
up on a mountain hill. Having in mind that I had to start at 4 a.m. this meant
it would have taken ages to get there. Luckily there was a trail and I managed
to find it thanks to a gentleman who told me where to go. It was really kind of
him and rather useful. In this occasion I had to wake up at 2,30 a.m. and in
other cases may be it had to be even earlier.
The trail took me an hour to get to the first
point so I managed to start just on time. This time I was by myself which was
probably an advantage in this case because I walked really quickly to be able
to start on time. Once I saw the route I realized it wasn’t going to be as
difficult as initially imagined. The route was around the top of a plateau with
minor change of altitude. Mind you the first point was at 300 m and the highest
one was at 650 m a.s.l. so there was some hiking. Nevertheless it was really
pleasant. I don’t know if it was because of the rest I had last night or
because of the motivation for the route being the last one but it was rather
pleasant. There were quite a few birds too. I flushed several Willow Grouses
along the way. On the top there was a Rock Ptarmigan and this turned out to be
the plot with the highest number of breeding Golden Plovers counting over 10
pairs. They were very noisy birds that made sure I would leave their territory
and curiously approached me now and then down to 20m. Unfortunately I didn’t
have my camera but at least this let me do the work that I was here for.
The top of the plateau was very easy to walk:
no vegetation, small rocks and unfortunately no birds. May be it was too windy
for them to breed up there although at the moment the weather was just superb.
And the view… Magnificent….
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| route 1907, copyright Iordan Hristov |
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| route 1907, copyright Iordan Hristov |
Well this was the last of the 11 routes I had to survey. On the next days we traveled to Tromso and spent some time in Oslo where not much birding was involved. I think I will finish with the birding stories. Will upload a collection of photos in any of the next posts.
Hope you enjoyed my Norwegian adventures.
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