It is slowly slowing down

 With only 5:30 hours of daylight nowadays birding is somewhat limited, but it is still possible to find some fun stuff. The gulls haven't really arrived in any substantial numbers yet, though 2 Iceland Gulls at Toftavatn was a nice reminder that winter is indeed coming. Duck-wise, nothing crazy has happened, except Goldeneyes have arrived in numbers now, with 1 at Vatn í Eiði and 4 at Sandsvatn and numbers of wigeons has also increased with minim. 125 at Sandsvatn, along with a day total of 7 Grey Herons and arrivals of Greater Scaups. 

But! There are still some fun birds around. 10/11, a visit at Viðareiði yielded 3 Siberian Chiffchaffs, 1 Fieldfare, 1 Woodcock, 1 European Goldfinch, 1 Barn Swallow and 1 Lesser Whitethroat. 

Still some of these pallid delights hanging around, I will eat my new adidas gazelle shoes if these aren't archetypical ssp. tristis

European Goldfinch, a rare bird on the Faroe Islands, but annual

13/11 yielded a Grey Wagtail, Velvet Scoter and a Common Scoter, which I think is one of very few occasions in Faroe Islands that more than one melanitta-species has been seen at one spot.

Double melanitta, Velvet Scoter top, Common Scoter bottom

14/11 yielded yet another Glossy Ibis flying over Sandsvátn, along with 125 Eurasian Wigeons and a long-staying Common Shelduck and Black Redstart at Skálavík, which is the 17th record for Faroe Islands, while the long-staying Little Egret is enjoying the sandy beaches of Tórshavn.

"Don't take too kindly to your kind around here"

Glossy Ibis - approx. 7th record this autumn for Faroe Islands

Black Redstart, it was exciting to that red tail flash across the beached kelp, surprising this is actually my second self-found record

Otherwise we are seeing Snow Buntings popping up, numbers of ducks are on the rise and now the it should be time for an arctic winter wonder in the shape of an Ivory Gull, Ross's Gull or something else.