Five hours of sunlight and plenty a wind

 The days are indeed getting shorter and shorter now. The wind is rarely less than 8 m/s and rain showers the islands periodically, yet there are birds to find, if one looks hard enough. The passerines is not a priority, but five Siberian Chiffchaffs at once in my garden, with a Blackcaps on 26/11 is quite the record! We very rarely get any warblers this late in the year, 28/11 yielded another Eurasian Coot in the local harbour, while I was getting the boat storm-ready, sadly not an American Coot, but any time now, we should get another record. Otherwise, highlights have been a Rook over Tórshavn 5/12, Common Pochard in Gróthúsvatn, along with a male Goosander, Common Shelduck in Sandsvatn, Little Grebe at Heimara Hálsavatn 17th record for Faroe Islands and one of my personal highlights: A nice adult male King Eider in Sørvágsfjørður on 7/12.

Barely annual on the Faroe Islands

Common Pochard and Common Merganser together

Little Grebe - Found it while driving 80 km/h past a lake, made a U-turn and boom, there it was

In the cover of my car, I scanned 600+ eiders, there it was!

So there is no lack of niceties on the Faroe Islands. But winter is for the gulls, and I have had two gull-highlights: A 1cy Great Black-backed Gull X Glaucous Gull at Vestmanna 29/11-2025 and a 2cy mystery gull at Skansin in Tórshavn 12/12 - 2025

Large GBBG-like gull with bicoloured bill with a shape inbetween GBBG and Glaucous Gull

Pale underparts and non-black primaries.

Like an opaque GBBG

But the real nutcracker of a gull was a this one. I can not share any informed opinion of my own, as I am in the deep end with this bird.